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... hand in hand with experiment , the impulse toward variety in his work shows itself not merely in themes and styles appropriated from earlier pastoral poets , but in the very measures and stanza- forms of his verse . These are strikingly ...
... hand in hand with experiment , the impulse toward variety in his work shows itself not merely in themes and styles appropriated from earlier pastoral poets , but in the very measures and stanza- forms of his verse . These are strikingly ...
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... hand in hand with learning , that the arch enemy of the Muses was Ignorance , that poetry in their day languished because the great were given over to luxury and the vulgar would listen only to a horde of unlearned and base rhymesters ...
... hand in hand with learning , that the arch enemy of the Muses was Ignorance , that poetry in their day languished because the great were given over to luxury and the vulgar would listen only to a horde of unlearned and base rhymesters ...
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... hand on Scythia , th ' other on the More , Both heaven and earth in roundnesse com- passing , Jove , fearing least , if she should greater growe , The old giants should once againe uprise , Her whelm'd with hills , these seven hils ...
... hand on Scythia , th ' other on the More , Both heaven and earth in roundnesse com- passing , Jove , fearing least , if she should greater growe , The old giants should once againe uprise , Her whelm'd with hills , these seven hils ...
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... hand against thy proper hart ; To th ' end that when thou wast in greatest hight To greatnes growne , through long pros- peritie , Thou then adewne might'st fall more horriblie . XXXII Hope ye , my verses , that posteritie Of age ...
... hand against thy proper hart ; To th ' end that when thou wast in greatest hight To greatnes growne , through long pros- peritie , Thou then adewne might'st fall more horriblie . XXXII Hope ye , my verses , that posteritie Of age ...
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... hand , spirited as some few of the combats are , particularly those of the second book , one re- cognizes only too clearly that Spenser's heart is not in this eager work . Nor is it in that active conflict of will with will , of purpose ...
... hand , spirited as some few of the combats are , particularly those of the second book , one re- cognizes only too clearly that Spenser's heart is not in this eager work . Nor is it in that active conflict of will with will , of purpose ...
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Page 145 - And on his brest a bloodie Crosse he bore, The deare remembrance of his dying Lord, For whose sweete sake that glorious badge he wore, And dead, as living, ever him ador'd : Upon his shield the like was also scor'd, For soveraine hope which in his helpe he had.
Page 737 - Why stand ye still ye virgins in amaze, Upon her so to gaze, Whiles ye forget your former lay to sing, To which the woods did answer, and your eccho ring?
Page 145 - Behind her farre away a Dwarfe did lag, That lasie seemd, in being ever last, Or wearied with bearing of her bag Of needments at his backe.
Page 280 - How oft do they their silver bowers leave, To come to succour us that succour want ! How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting...
Page 145 - A lovely Ladie rode him faire beside, Upon a lowly Asse more white then snow, Yet she much whiter ; but the same did hide Under a vele, that wimpled...
Page 676 - I well consider all that ye have sayd, And find that all things stedfastnes doe hate And changed be: yet being rightly wayd, They are not changed from their first estate; But by their change their being doe dilate: And turning to themselves at length againe, Doe worke their owne perfection so by fate: Then over them Change doth not rule and raigne; But they raigne over Change, and doe their states maintaine.
Page 735 - Ye learned sisters, which have oftentimes Beene to me ayding, others to adorne, Whom ye thought worthy of your gracefull rymes, That even the greatest did not greatly scorne To heare theyr names sung in your simple layes, But joyed in theyr praise ; And when ye list your owne mishaps to mourne...
Page 760 - Themmes! runne softly, till I end my Song. Then forth they all out of their baskets drew Great store of Flowers, the honour of the field, That to the sense did fragrant odours yeild, All which upon those goodly Birds they threw And all the Waves did strew, That like \ old Peneus...
Page 149 - The knight was well content ; So with that godly father to his home they went. A litle lowly Hermitage it was, Downe in a dale, hard by a forests side, Far from resort of people that did pas In...
Page 761 - Great Englands glory, and the Worlds wide wonder, Whose dreadfull name late through all Spaine did thunder, And Hercules two pillors standing neere Did make to quake and feare...