Spenser |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 14
Page 143
... beauty . Spenser's perception of beauty of all kinds was singularly and characteristically quick and sympa- thetic . It was one of his great gifts ; perhaps the most special and unstinted . Except Shakespere , who had it with other and ...
... beauty . Spenser's perception of beauty of all kinds was singularly and characteristically quick and sympa- thetic . It was one of his great gifts ; perhaps the most special and unstinted . Except Shakespere , who had it with other and ...
Page 144
... beauty the impartiality which makes him throw all his strength into his pictures of Acrasia's Bower of Bliss , the Garden of Adonis , and Busirane's Masque of Cu- pid . But there is no gainsaying the beauty which never fails and ...
... beauty the impartiality which makes him throw all his strength into his pictures of Acrasia's Bower of Bliss , the Garden of Adonis , and Busirane's Masque of Cu- pid . But there is no gainsaying the beauty which never fails and ...
Page 147
... beauty , even varied beauty , is the uninterrupted attribute of his work . It alternates with much that no indulgence can call beautiful . It passes but too easily into what is commonplace , or forced , or unnatural , or extravagant ...
... beauty , even varied beauty , is the uninterrupted attribute of his work . It alternates with much that no indulgence can call beautiful . It passes but too easily into what is commonplace , or forced , or unnatural , or extravagant ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
adventure allegory amid appears beauty Burghley character Chaucer Colin Clout's Court dangerous delight Desmond doth Earl Edmund Spenser Elizabeth England English poetry Englishmen evil eyes Faerie Queene fashion favour Gabriel Harvey gentlemen Geoffrey Fenton grace Grindal Harvey's hath honour ideas imagination Ireland Irish Italian JOHN MORLEY Kilcolman knights Lady land language learning Leicester literary London Lord Grey Lord Grey's ment mind moral Munster natural ness never noble Norreys passion pastoral peace person Petrarch Philip Sidney picture poem poet poet's poetical praise Prince published Puritan R. W. CHURCH rebellion ROBERT SOUTHEY Rosalind scene scorn seems Shakespere Shepherd's Calendar Sidney's Sir Walter Ralegh Smerwick Sonnets SOUTHEY Spen Spenser spirit story strong sweetness things thought tion translation truth unto verse vertues Virgil Walter Ralegh wont words writes