Observations on the Fairy Queen of Spenser, Volumes 1-2C. Stower, 1807 |
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... never were regarded or intended . Spenser , and the same may be said of Ariosto , did not live in an age of planning . His poetry is the care- * Orl . Fur . c . 1. s . 1 . less exuberance of a warm imagination and a strong sensibility 21.
... never were regarded or intended . Spenser , and the same may be said of Ariosto , did not live in an age of planning . His poetry is the care- * Orl . Fur . c . 1. s . 1 . less exuberance of a warm imagination and a strong sensibility 21.
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... “ As he growed in might and strength , he laboured ever in hunting and hawking ; so that we never read of no gentleman , more , that so used himselfe therein . - And he began good measures of blowing of blasts of venery [ hunting ] 30.
... “ As he growed in might and strength , he laboured ever in hunting and hawking ; so that we never read of no gentleman , more , that so used himselfe therein . - And he began good measures of blowing of blasts of venery [ hunting ] 30.
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... never leave , till he have thy head and beard * . " - After this passage we have an an- cient ballad , the subject of which is this insolent demand of King Rynce . Drayton , in his Polyolbion , speaks of a coat composed of the beards of ...
... never leave , till he have thy head and beard * . " - After this passage we have an an- cient ballad , the subject of which is this insolent demand of King Rynce . Drayton , in his Polyolbion , speaks of a coat composed of the beards of ...
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... never out , for all the craft that he could doe * " Our author has taken notice of a supersti- tious tradition , which is related at large in this romance . * B. i . c . 60 . 1 -Good Lucius That first received christianitie , The sacred ...
... never out , for all the craft that he could doe * " Our author has taken notice of a supersti- tious tradition , which is related at large in this romance . * B. i . c . 60 . 1 -Good Lucius That first received christianitie , The sacred ...
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... il savio incantator Britanno Fe far la fonte , al tempo del re Arturo , E di cose , ch ' al mondo hanno a venire , La fe da buoni artefici scolpire * . * C. 26. 39 . These whose names appear In marble pure , did never 54.
... il savio incantator Britanno Fe far la fonte , al tempo del re Arturo , E di cose , ch ' al mondo hanno a venire , La fe da buoni artefici scolpire * . * C. 26. 39 . These whose names appear In marble pure , did never 54.
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