Spenser: SelectionsClarendon Press, 1956 - 208 pages |
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... natural ambition of the young Englishman , to be its Virgil the natural ambition of the young scholar . The academic teachers who fostered the ambition showed him also the way to satisfy it . For them , students of style above all ...
... natural ambition of the young Englishman , to be its Virgil the natural ambition of the young scholar . The academic teachers who fostered the ambition showed him also the way to satisfy it . For them , students of style above all ...
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... nature , by the sound of softer streams , among greener hills and 20 fairer valleys . He paints nature , not as we find it , but as we expected to find it ; and fulfils the delightful promise of our youth . He waves his wand of ...
... nature , by the sound of softer streams , among greener hills and 20 fairer valleys . He paints nature , not as we find it , but as we expected to find it ; and fulfils the delightful promise of our youth . He waves his wand of ...
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... nature imaginable , for Spenser has been ever a favourite poet to me . Conversation with Spence , 1743-4 ( Spence's ... natural knowledge from Bacon ; the phrases of policy , war , and 20 navigation from Raleigh ; the dialect of poetry ...
... nature imaginable , for Spenser has been ever a favourite poet to me . Conversation with Spence , 1743-4 ( Spence's ... natural knowledge from Bacon ; the phrases of policy , war , and 20 navigation from Raleigh ; the dialect of poetry ...
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