Observations on the Fairy Queen of Spenser, Volumes 1-2C. Stower, 1807 |
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... nature dictated , and which the example and the precept of antiquity had authorised . But it was a long time before such a change was effected . We find Ariosto , many years after the revival of letters , rejecting truth for magic , and ...
... nature dictated , and which the example and the precept of antiquity had authorised . But it was a long time before such a change was effected . We find Ariosto , many years after the revival of letters , rejecting truth for magic , and ...
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... Nature boon Pour'd forth profuse , on hill , and dale , and plain ; Both where the morning sun first warmly smote The open field , or where the unpierced shade Imbrown'd the noon - tide bowers * . JEE 1 : | : ཀ If the Fairy Queen be ...
... Nature boon Pour'd forth profuse , on hill , and dale , and plain ; Both where the morning sun first warmly smote The open field , or where the unpierced shade Imbrown'd the noon - tide bowers * . JEE 1 : | : ཀ If the Fairy Queen be ...
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... he would have put her to death had not Neptune delivered her , by concealing her in that lake , from which confinement the queen is after- wards supposed to deliver her , & c . 1 " " Without expatiating upon the nature of such 1 . 44.
... he would have put her to death had not Neptune delivered her , by concealing her in that lake , from which confinement the queen is after- wards supposed to deliver her , & c . 1 " " Without expatiating upon the nature of such 1 . 44.
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Thomas Warton. 1 " " Without expatiating upon the nature of such a royal entertainment as this , I shall observe from it , that as the " the Lady of the Lake " was a very popular character in the reign of Queen Elizabeth , so ...
Thomas Warton. 1 " " Without expatiating upon the nature of such a royal entertainment as this , I shall observe from it , that as the " the Lady of the Lake " was a very popular character in the reign of Queen Elizabeth , so ...
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... nature , than those of the miraculous water here displayed by Spenser . I take this opportunity of mentioning by the way , that our author , in his dragon- encounters , circumstantially adopts all the incidents which occur on this ...
... nature , than those of the miraculous water here displayed by Spenser . I take this opportunity of mentioning by the way , that our author , in his dragon- encounters , circumstantially adopts all the incidents which occur on this ...
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