Spenser: SelectionsClarendon Press, 1956 - 208 pages |
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... tree : Upon the top of all his lofty crest , A bunch of hairs discolour'd diversely With sprinkled pearl and gold full richly drest Did shake and seem'd to daunce for jollity ; Like to an almond tree ymounted high On top of green ...
... tree : Upon the top of all his lofty crest , A bunch of hairs discolour'd diversely With sprinkled pearl and gold full richly drest Did shake and seem'd to daunce for jollity ; Like to an almond tree ymounted high On top of green ...
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... tree 10 in Lorton vale , which has known so many ages that it belongs to none in particular ; a living image of endless self - reproduction , like the immortal tree of Malabar . In Spenser the spirit of chivalry is entirely predominant ...
... tree 10 in Lorton vale , which has known so many ages that it belongs to none in particular ; a living image of endless self - reproduction , like the immortal tree of Malabar . In Spenser the spirit of chivalry is entirely predominant ...
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... tree , they say , will not growe neare the Firre tree , which is dedicate to Mars the God of battaile , and used most for speares and other instruments of warre . Whereupon 320 is finely feigned , that when Neptune and Minerva strove ...
... tree , they say , will not growe neare the Firre tree , which is dedicate to Mars the God of battaile , and used most for speares and other instruments of warre . Whereupon 320 is finely feigned , that when Neptune and Minerva strove ...
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