Spenser: SelectionsClarendon Press, 1956 - 208 pages |
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... mind could assimilate the learning which had defeated Ronsard and combine it with the romance which had misled Ariosto , and though the fusion is not always complete , the spirit of Spenser is never overcome . His person- ality is clear ...
... mind could assimilate the learning which had defeated Ronsard and combine it with the romance which had misled Ariosto , and though the fusion is not always complete , the spirit of Spenser is never overcome . His person- ality is clear ...
Page 92
... mind , voide of all blemishment · Which it reducing to her first perfection , Beholdeth free from fleshes frayle infection . And then conforming it unto the light , Which in it selfe it hath remaining still Of that first Sunne , yet ...
... mind , voide of all blemishment · Which it reducing to her first perfection , Beholdeth free from fleshes frayle infection . And then conforming it unto the light , Which in it selfe it hath remaining still Of that first Sunne , yet ...
Page 128
... Mind Book II , Canto IX , xlvii - lvii NE can I tell , ne can I stay to tell xlvii This parts great workmanship , and wondrous powre , That all this other worlds worke doth excell , And likest is unto that heavenly towre , That God hath ...
... Mind Book II , Canto IX , xlvii - lvii NE can I tell , ne can I stay to tell xlvii This parts great workmanship , and wondrous powre , That all this other worlds worke doth excell , And likest is unto that heavenly towre , That God hath ...
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