Observations on the Fairy Queen of Spenser, Volumes 1-2C. Stower, 1807 |
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... reason on which its real merit was founded . rejected as an insipid and uninteresting per- formance , having few devils or enchantments to recommend it . To Trissino succeeded Tasso , who , in his Gierusaleme Liberata , took the ...
... reason on which its real merit was founded . rejected as an insipid and uninteresting per- formance , having few devils or enchantments to recommend it . To Trissino succeeded Tasso , who , in his Gierusaleme Liberata , took the ...
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... reason , that after one of the twelve Knights had achieved the adventure of his proper book , the poet introduces him , in the next book , acting perhaps in an infe- rior sphere , and degraded to some less dan- gerous exploit . But this ...
... reason , that after one of the twelve Knights had achieved the adventure of his proper book , the poet introduces him , in the next book , acting perhaps in an infe- rior sphere , and degraded to some less dan- gerous exploit . But this ...
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... reason of the streight and rocks among , But they that ladies lockes do shave away , And that knights beards for toll , which they for passage pay . 6 , 1. 13 . Afterwards , His name is Crudor , who through high disdaine , And proud ...
... reason of the streight and rocks among , But they that ladies lockes do shave away , And that knights beards for toll , which they for passage pay . 6 , 1. 13 . Afterwards , His name is Crudor , who through high disdaine , And proud ...
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... reasons . B. i . c . i . s . xxxvii . A bold bad man , that dar'd to call by name Great Gorgon . Dr. Jortin has multiplied instances by **** See Remarks on Spenser's Poems . which it appears , that the ancients were superstitiously ...
... reasons . B. i . c . i . s . xxxvii . A bold bad man , that dar'd to call by name Great Gorgon . Dr. Jortin has multiplied instances by **** See Remarks on Spenser's Poems . which it appears , that the ancients were superstitiously ...
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... reason why he rent it . B. i . c . vi . s . xiv . Sylvanus is here introduced- His weake steps governing , And aged limbes on cypresse stadle stout . " " I do not remember that Sylvanus is any where described as infirm with old age ...
... reason why he rent it . B. i . c . vi . s . xiv . Sylvanus is here introduced- His weake steps governing , And aged limbes on cypresse stadle stout . " " I do not remember that Sylvanus is any where described as infirm with old age ...
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