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... beauty , an admirer even when he was not a lover of the alluring pleasures of which the world is full , with a perpetual struggle going on in him , between his strong instincts of purity and right , and his passionate appreciation of ...
... beauty , an admirer even when he was not a lover of the alluring pleasures of which the world is full , with a perpetual struggle going on in him , between his strong instincts of purity and right , and his passionate appreciation of ...
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... beauty , but also round about it to shadow the rude thickets and craggy cliffs , that by the base- ness of such parts , more excellency may accrue to the principal - for ofttimes we find ourselves I know not how , singularly delighted ...
... beauty , but also round about it to shadow the rude thickets and craggy cliffs , that by the base- ness of such parts , more excellency may accrue to the principal - for ofttimes we find ourselves I know not how , singularly delighted ...
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... beauty and instrument , had yet been invented by him , while he had been trying experiments in metre in the Shepherd's Calendar , we have no means of determining . But he took the idea with him to Ireland ; and in Ireland he pursued it ...
... beauty and instrument , had yet been invented by him , while he had been trying experiments in metre in the Shepherd's Calendar , we have no means of determining . But he took the idea with him to Ireland ; and in Ireland he pursued it ...
Page 102
... beauty and music , and in the strange- ness , in our eyes , of the excuse made for the poet . " Ne let Eliza , royall Shepheardesse , The praises of my parted love envy , For she hath praises in all plenteousnesse Powr'd upon her , like ...
... beauty and music , and in the strange- ness , in our eyes , of the excuse made for the poet . " Ne let Eliza , royall Shepheardesse , The praises of my parted love envy , For she hath praises in all plenteousnesse Powr'd upon her , like ...
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... beauty , a sense that the work is overdone . Spenser certainly did not want for humour and an eye for the ri- diculous . There is no want in him , either , of that power of epigrammatic terseness , which , in spite of its diffuse- ness ...
... beauty , a sense that the work is overdone . Spenser certainly did not want for humour and an eye for the ri- diculous . There is no want in him , either , of that power of epigrammatic terseness , which , in spite of its diffuse- ness ...
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