Observations on the Fairy Queen of Spenser, Volumes 1-2C. Stower, 1807 |
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... poets , in his eye . Like his own Rinaldo , who after he had gazed on the diamond shield of truth , and with seeming ... Poem . though composed in some measure on a re- gular plan , give its author , among the Italians at least , any ...
... poets , in his eye . Like his own Rinaldo , who after he had gazed on the diamond shield of truth , and with seeming ... Poem . though composed in some measure on a re- gular plan , give its author , among the Italians at least , any ...
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Thomas Warton. of inquiry concerning the merit of both poems . Such was the prevailing taste , when Spen- ser projected the Fairy Queen : a poem , which according to the practice of Ariosto , was to consist of allegories , enchantments ...
Thomas Warton. of inquiry concerning the merit of both poems . Such was the prevailing taste , when Spen- ser projected the Fairy Queen : a poem , which according to the practice of Ariosto , was to consist of allegories , enchantments ...
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... poem . Dryden remarks " We must do Spenser that justice to observe , that magnanimity [ magnificence ] which is the true character of Prince Arthur , shines throughout the whole poem ; and succours the rest when they are in distress ...
... poem . Dryden remarks " We must do Spenser that justice to observe , that magnanimity [ magnificence ] which is the true character of Prince Arthur , shines throughout the whole poem ; and succours the rest when they are in distress ...
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... Poem by some dependent or inferior chief , the business of a Gyas or a Cloanthus . On the whole , we may observe , that Spenser's adventures , separately taken as the subject of each single book , have not always a mutual dependence ...
... Poem by some dependent or inferior chief , the business of a Gyas or a Cloanthus . On the whole , we may observe , that Spenser's adventures , separately taken as the subject of each single book , have not always a mutual dependence ...
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Thomas Warton. As the heroic poem is required to be one whole , compounded of many various parts , relative and dependent , it is expedient that not one of those parts should be so regularly contrived , and so completely finished , as to ...
Thomas Warton. As the heroic poem is required to be one whole , compounded of many various parts , relative and dependent , it is expedient that not one of those parts should be so regularly contrived , and so completely finished , as to ...
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