Observations on the Fairy Queen of Spenser, Volumes 1-2C. Stower, 1807 |
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... poet supposes , that the FAERIE QUEENE , according to an established annual custom , held a magnificent feast , which con- tinued twelve days ; on each of which , re- spectively , twelve several complaints are presented before her ...
... poet supposes , that the FAERIE QUEENE , according to an established annual custom , held a magnificent feast , which con- tinued twelve days ; on each of which , re- spectively , twelve several complaints are presented before her ...
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... poet has constituted one principal knight , or general hero , viz . Prince Arthur . This personage represents magnifi- cence ; a virtue which is supposed to be the perfection of all the rest . He moreover assists in every book , and the ...
... poet has constituted one principal knight , or general hero , viz . Prince Arthur . This personage represents magnifi- cence ; a virtue which is supposed to be the perfection of all the rest . He moreover assists in every book , and the ...
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... poet ? It may be answered , with some degree of plau- sibility , that by lending his respective assist- ance to each of the twelve Knights , who patronize the twelve virtues , in his allotted . defence of each , Arthur approaches still ...
... poet ? It may be answered , with some degree of plau- sibility , that by lending his respective assist- ance to each of the twelve Knights , who patronize the twelve virtues , in his allotted . defence of each , Arthur approaches still ...
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... poet ought to have made this " brave Knight " the leading adventurer . Arthur should have been the principal agent in vindicating the cause of holiness , temperance , and the rest . If our hero had thus , in his own person , ex- erted ...
... poet ought to have made this " brave Knight " the leading adventurer . Arthur should have been the principal agent in vindicating the cause of holiness , temperance , and the rest . If our hero had thus , in his own person , ex- erted ...
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... poet . While we are attending to the design of the hero of the book , we forget that of the hero of the poem . Dryden remarks " We must do Spenser that justice to observe , that magnanimity [ magnificence ] which is the true character ...
... poet . While we are attending to the design of the hero of the book , we forget that of the hero of the poem . Dryden remarks " We must do Spenser that justice to observe , that magnanimity [ magnificence ] which is the true character ...
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