Spenser: SelectionsClarendon Press, 1956 - 208 pages |
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... excellent a maister , calleth the Loadestarre of our Language : and whom our Colin Clout in his glogue calleth Tityrus the God of shepheards , comparing hym to the worthines of the Roman Tityrus Virgile . Which proverbe ... so very well ...
... excellent a maister , calleth the Loadestarre of our Language : and whom our Colin Clout in his glogue calleth Tityrus the God of shepheards , comparing hym to the worthines of the Roman Tityrus Virgile . Which proverbe ... so very well ...
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... excellent and proper devises both in wordes and matter would passe in the speedy course of reading , 10 either as unknowen , or as not marked , and that in this kind , as in other , we might be equal to the learned of other nations , I ...
... excellent and proper devises both in wordes and matter would passe in the speedy course of reading , 10 either as unknowen , or as not marked , and that in this kind , as in other , we might be equal to the learned of other nations , I ...
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... excellent a Poets work : as so renowmed and ennobled onely by hys meanes . Which being declared in a most eloquent Oration of Tullies , is of Petrarch no lesse worthely sette forth in a sonet Giunto Alexandro a la famosa tomba Del fero ...
... excellent a Poets work : as so renowmed and ennobled onely by hys meanes . Which being declared in a most eloquent Oration of Tullies , is of Petrarch no lesse worthely sette forth in a sonet Giunto Alexandro a la famosa tomba Del fero ...
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