Spenser: SelectionsClarendon Press, 1956 - 208 pages |
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... vertue , not a pure ; her whitenesse is but an excrementall whitenesse ; Which was the reason why our sage and serious Poet Spencer , whom I dare be known to think a better teacher then Scotus or Aquinas , describing true temper- ance ...
... vertue , not a pure ; her whitenesse is but an excrementall whitenesse ; Which was the reason why our sage and serious Poet Spencer , whom I dare be known to think a better teacher then Scotus or Aquinas , describing true temper- ance ...
Page 78
... vertues store , Her goodly eyes lyke Saphyres shining bright , Her forehead yvory white , Her cheekes lyke apples which ... vertue raynes as Queene in royal throne , And giveth lawes alone . The which the base affections doe obay , And ...
... vertues store , Her goodly eyes lyke Saphyres shining bright , Her forehead yvory white , Her cheekes lyke apples which ... vertue raynes as Queene in royal throne , And giveth lawes alone . The which the base affections doe obay , And ...
Page 177
... vertues , as Aristotle hath devised , ic the which is the purpose of these first twelve bookes : which if I finde to be well accepted , I may be perhaps encoraged , to frame the other part of polliticke vertues in his person , after ...
... vertues , as Aristotle hath devised , ic the which is the purpose of these first twelve bookes : which if I finde to be well accepted , I may be perhaps encoraged , to frame the other part of polliticke vertues in his person , after ...
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