| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 610 pages
...aduentures hapncd, which, being undertaken by xii seuerall knights, are in these xii books seuerally handled and discoursed. The first was this. In the beginning of the feast, there presented himselfe a tall clownishe younge man, who, falling before the queene of Paries, desired a boone, (as... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 600 pages
...aduentures hapned, which, being undertaken by xii seuerall knights, arc in these n books severally bandied and discoursed. The first was this. In the beginning of the feast, there presented himselfe a tall clownishe youngc man who, falling before the queene of Faries, desired a boone, (as... | |
| England - 1834 - 918 pages
...— and they must be many— will be able to form some general notion of the nature of the work. " In the beginning of the Feast, there presented himself a tall clownish yonge man, who falling before the Queen of Fairies, desired a boone (as the manner there was), which... | |
| British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 294 pages
...Aduentures hapned, which, being undertaken by xii. seuerall Knights, are in these xii. Books seuerally handled and discoursed. The first was this. In the beginning of the feast, there presented himselfe a tall clownishe younge man, who falling before the Queene of Faries desired a boone (as the... | |
| 1826 - 722 pages
...annual feast twelve days, upon which twelve several days the occasions of the twelve several adventures happened, which being undertaken by twelve several...knights, are in these twelve books severally handled." Ariosto, in the structure of his poem, does not, like Spenser, endeavour to combine the wildness of... | |
| Monthly literary register - 1826 - 680 pages
...annual feast twelve days, upon which twelve several days the occasions of the twelve several adventures happened, which being undertaken by twelve several...knights, are in these twelve books severally handled." Ariosto, in the structure of his poem, does not, like Spenser, endeavour to combine the wildness of... | |
| Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 814 pages
...times the very rustich people left both their delights and profits to hearken to his songs. Sidney, There presented himself a tall, clownish, young man,...who, falling before the queen of the fairies, desired that he might have the achievement of any adventure, which, during the feast, might happen ; that being... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 424 pages
...times the very mitick people left both their delights and profits to hearken to his songs. Sidney. There presented himself a tall, clownish, young man, who, falling before the queen of the fairies, deaired that he might have the achievement of any adventure, which, during the feast, might happen... | |
| Scotland - 1834 - 896 pages
...— and they must be many— will be able to form some general notion of the nature of the work. " In the beginning of the Feast, there presented himself a tall clownish yonge man, who falling before the Queen of Fairies, desired a boone (as the manner there was), which... | |
| Edmund Spenser - 1839 - 444 pages
...severall Adventures hapncd, which, being undertaken by xii. severall Knights, are in these xii. Bookes severally handled and discoursed. The first was this. In the beginning of the feast, there presented himselfe a tall clownishc younge man, who falling before the Queene of Faeries desired a boone (as... | |
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