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... later ( 1554 ) , Hooker and Philip Sidney . Bacon ( 1561 ) , and Shakespere ( 1564 ) , belong to the next decade of the century . He was certainly a Londoner by birth and early train- ing . This also we learn from himself , in the ...
... later ( 1554 ) , Hooker and Philip Sidney . Bacon ( 1561 ) , and Shakespere ( 1564 ) , belong to the next decade of the century . He was certainly a Londoner by birth and early train- ing . This also we learn from himself , in the ...
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... later years we learn that his mother bore the famous name of Elizabeth , which was also the cherished one of Spenser's wife . " My love , my life's best ornament , By whom my spirit out of dust was raised . " But his family , whatever ...
... later years we learn that his mother bore the famous name of Elizabeth , which was also the cherished one of Spenser's wife . " My love , my life's best ornament , By whom my spirit out of dust was raised . " But his family , whatever ...
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... later ones are rimed as sonnets ; but the change does not destroy the manifest identity of the two translations . So that unless Spenser's publisher , to whom the poet had certainly given some of his genuine pieces for the volume , is ...
... later ones are rimed as sonnets ; but the change does not destroy the manifest identity of the two translations . So that unless Spenser's publisher , to whom the poet had certainly given some of his genuine pieces for the volume , is ...
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... later in life , to plunge violently into the scurrilous quarrels of the day , and as he was matched with wittier and more popular antagonists , he has come down to us as a foolish pretender , or at least as a dull and stupid scholar who ...
... later in life , to plunge violently into the scurrilous quarrels of the day , and as he was matched with wittier and more popular antagonists , he has come down to us as a foolish pretender , or at least as a dull and stupid scholar who ...
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... later poetry ; his Dreams , Epithalamion Thamesis , apparently in the " reformed verse , " his Dying Pelican , his Slumber , his Stemmata Dudleiana , his Come- dies . They show at least the activity and eagerness of the writer in his ...
... later poetry ; his Dreams , Epithalamion Thamesis , apparently in the " reformed verse , " his Dying Pelican , his Slumber , his Stemmata Dudleiana , his Come- dies . They show at least the activity and eagerness of the writer in his ...
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