Spenser: SelectionsClarendon Press, 1956 - 208 pages |
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... Learned in many places and from many masters , his verse and style are unmistakably his own . Only a powerfully poetic mind could assimilate the learning which had defeated Ronsard and combine it with the romance which had misled ...
... Learned in many places and from many masters , his verse and style are unmistakably his own . Only a powerfully poetic mind could assimilate the learning which had defeated Ronsard and combine it with the romance which had misled ...
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... learned wythout hardnes , such indeede as may be perceived of the leaste , understoode of the moste , but judged onely of the learned . For what in most English wryters useth io be loose , and 20 as it were ungyrt , in this Authour is ...
... learned wythout hardnes , such indeede as may be perceived of the leaste , understoode of the moste , but judged onely of the learned . For what in most English wryters useth io be loose , and 20 as it were ungyrt , in this Authour is ...
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... learned man being more hable then the rest , for speciall gyftes of wytte and Musicke , would take upon him to sing fine verses to the people , in prayse eyther of vertue or of victory or of immortality or such like . At whose wonderful ...
... learned man being more hable then the rest , for speciall gyftes of wytte and Musicke , would take upon him to sing fine verses to the people , in prayse eyther of vertue or of victory or of immortality or such like . At whose wonderful ...
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