Spenser: SelectionsClarendon Press, 1956 - 208 pages |
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... King Arthur . The pastoral image expresses desires too personal to him to be wholly borrowed from Virgil or Mantuan . Beauty is something more than a theme for quasi - Platonic declamation ; it is a presence and a passion . His heart ...
... King Arthur . The pastoral image expresses desires too personal to him to be wholly borrowed from Virgil or Mantuan . Beauty is something more than a theme for quasi - Platonic declamation ; it is a presence and a passion . His heart ...
Page 40
... King , her highnesse Father , late of worthy memorye K. Henry the eyght . And by that name , oftymes ( as hereafter appeareth ) be noted kings and mighty Potentates : And in some place Christ himselfe , who is the verye Pan and god of ...
... King , her highnesse Father , late of worthy memorye K. Henry the eyght . And by that name , oftymes ( as hereafter appeareth ) be noted kings and mighty Potentates : And in some place Christ himselfe , who is the verye Pan and god of ...
Page 177
... king , the image of a brave knight , perfected in the twelve private morall vertues , as Aristotle hath devised , ic the which is the purpose of these first twelve bookes : which if I finde to be well accepted , I may be perhaps ...
... king , the image of a brave knight , perfected in the twelve private morall vertues , as Aristotle hath devised , ic the which is the purpose of these first twelve bookes : which if I finde to be well accepted , I may be perhaps ...
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