Spenser: SelectionsClarendon Press, 1956 - 208 pages |
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... meaning of the word , allegory , -to talk of one thing and thereby convey another , -is too wide . The true sense is this , the employment of one set of agents and images to convey in disguise a moral meaning , with a likeness to the ...
... meaning of the word , allegory , -to talk of one thing and thereby convey another , -is too wide . The true sense is this , the employment of one set of agents and images to convey in disguise a moral meaning , with a likeness to the ...
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... meaning in them , as also in sundry other works of his . Which albeit I know he nothing so much hateth , as to promulgate , yet thus much have I adventured upon his friendship , him selfe being for long time furre estraunged , hoping ...
... meaning in them , as also in sundry other works of his . Which albeit I know he nothing so much hateth , as to promulgate , yet thus much have I adventured upon his friendship , him selfe being for long time furre estraunged , hoping ...
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... Meaning uncertain ; perhaps , to follow up the adversary as he retires , and to step sidewise . Troad ( VI . x . 5 ) : track . O.E. trod . Vade ( v . ii . 40 ) : to fade . Southern form , or by contamination with Lat . vadere , to go ...
... Meaning uncertain ; perhaps , to follow up the adversary as he retires , and to step sidewise . Troad ( VI . x . 5 ) : track . O.E. trod . Vade ( v . ii . 40 ) : to fade . Southern form , or by contamination with Lat . vadere , to go ...
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