English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature, Volume 9Cassell, limited, 1892 - English literature |
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... born in Lancashire , part of England where the name has been found commonly spelt Spenser , and not Spencer . The name is derived from the office of steward , or house- hold dispenser . Dr. Grosart has , through much research , made it ...
... born in Lancashire , part of England where the name has been found commonly spelt Spenser , and not Spencer . The name is derived from the office of steward , or house- hold dispenser . Dr. Grosart has , through much research , made it ...
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... born in October , 1595 , four years before the poet's death . 99 * An Adam the Spenser in the " Tale of Gamelyn was god- father to the old Adam in Shakespeare's " As You Like It . " 66 ' Gamelyn into the woode stalkede stille , And Adam ...
... born in October , 1595 , four years before the poet's death . 99 * An Adam the Spenser in the " Tale of Gamelyn was god- father to the old Adam in Shakespeare's " As You Like It . " 66 ' Gamelyn into the woode stalkede stille , And Adam ...
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... born between 1564 and 1575 , and who himself died in September , 1593. Lawrence was the name given by the poet to his second son . There was another Spenser - John - at Downham , B 2 TO A.D. 1593. ] 3 EDMUND SPENSER .
... born between 1564 and 1575 , and who himself died in September , 1593. Lawrence was the name given by the poet to his second son . There was another Spenser - John - at Downham , B 2 TO A.D. 1593. ] 3 EDMUND SPENSER .
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... born in or about the year 1552 , and the oldest parish register at Burnley does not begin until ten years later . But he was born , probably , in a part of London where his baptism would have been recorded in the books of a church ...
... born in or about the year 1552 , and the oldest parish register at Burnley does not begin until ten years later . But he was born , probably , in a part of London where his baptism would have been recorded in the books of a church ...
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... born in 1552 ; and as he went from Merchant Taylors ' School and entered as a sizar , he would hardly have gone at a much earlier or at a later age . If he wrote in the same year the pieces of verse translation ascribed to him in the ...
... born in 1552 ; and as he went from Merchant Taylors ' School and entered as a sizar , he would hardly have gone at a much earlier or at a later age . If he wrote in the same year the pieces of verse translation ascribed to him in the ...
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Page 135 - ... with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner ; and, pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue ; even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome things, by hiding them in such other as have a pleasant taste...
Page 385 - Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That own'd the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous horse of brass, On which the Tartar king did ride...
Page 259 - Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone : regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise Only to wonder at unlawful things, Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits To practise more than heavenly power permits.
Page 438 - At length they all to merry London came, To merry London, my most kindly nurse, That to me gave this life's first native source; Though from another place I take my name, An house of ancient fame: There when they came, whereas those bricky tower? The which on Thames...
Page 250 - From jigging veins of rhyming mother wits And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay, We'll lead you to the stately tent of war Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine Threatening the world with high astounding terms And scourging kingdoms with his conquering sword.
Page 346 - How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies like flying pursuivant, Against foul fiends to aid us militant! They for us fight, they watch and duly ward, And their bright squadrons round about us plant; And all for love, and nothing for reward: O why should Heavenly God to men have such regard ? LONDON: APPROVED SCHOOL BOOKS.
Page 259 - Mountains and hills, come, come, and fall on me, And hide me from the heavy wrath of God ! No, no.
Page 148 - MY mind to me a kingdom is ; Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss That earth affords or grows by kind: Though much I want that most would have, Yet still my mind forbids to crave. No princely pomp, no wealthy store, No force to win the victory, No wily wit to salve a sore, No shape to feed a loving eye; To none of these I yield as thrall ; For why ? my mind doth serve for all.
Page 257 - Why this is hell, nor am I out of it : Think'st thou that I who saw the face of God, And tasted the eternal joys of Heaven, Am not tormented with ten thousand hells, In being deprived of everlasting bliss ? O Faustus!
Page 346 - And is there care in Heaven ? and is there love In heavenly spirits to these creatures base, That may compassion of their evils move ? There is...