Observations on the Fairy Queen of Spenser, Volumes 1-2C. Stower, 1807 |
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... perhaps in an infe- rior sphere , and degraded to some less dan- gerous exploit . But this conduct is highly inartificial for it destroys that repose which the mind feels after having accompanied a hero , through manifold struggles and ...
... perhaps in an infe- rior sphere , and degraded to some less dan- gerous exploit . But this conduct is highly inartificial for it destroys that repose which the mind feels after having accompanied a hero , through manifold struggles and ...
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... perhaps would have embarrassed himself and the reader less , had he made every book one entire detached poem of twelve cantos , without any reference to the rest . Thus he would have written twelve different books , in each of which he ...
... perhaps would have embarrassed himself and the reader less , had he made every book one entire detached poem of twelve cantos , without any reference to the rest . Thus he would have written twelve different books , in each of which he ...
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Thomas Warton. 氨 twelve moral virtues , the former plan perhaps would have been best : the latter is defective as it necessarily wants simplicity . It is an action consisting of twelve actions , all equally great and unconnected between ...
Thomas Warton. 氨 twelve moral virtues , the former plan perhaps would have been best : the latter is defective as it necessarily wants simplicity . It is an action consisting of twelve actions , all equally great and unconnected between ...
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... perhaps the reader may not be persuaded , that Spenser , 66 He is also called the Glatisant Beast , ibid . B. ii . c . 98. Tell them that I am the knight that followeth the Glatisant Beast ; that is to say , in English , the Questing ...
... perhaps the reader may not be persuaded , that Spenser , 66 He is also called the Glatisant Beast , ibid . B. ii . c . 98. Tell them that I am the knight that followeth the Glatisant Beast ; that is to say , in English , the Questing ...
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... perhaps super- fluous , I shall add , that Spenser has quoted an authority , for an ancient custom from Morte Arthur , in his " State of Ireland . ' وو " The knights in antient times used to wear their mistresses or lover's sleeve upon ...
... perhaps super- fluous , I shall add , that Spenser has quoted an authority , for an ancient custom from Morte Arthur , in his " State of Ireland . ' وو " The knights in antient times used to wear their mistresses or lover's sleeve upon ...
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