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... minds ; but no one had yet shown the genius and the strength to grasp and exhibit them in a way to challenge comparison with what had been accomplished by the poetry and prose of Greece , Rome , and Italy . There had been poets in 1 ...
... minds ; but no one had yet shown the genius and the strength to grasp and exhibit them in a way to challenge comparison with what had been accomplished by the poetry and prose of Greece , Rome , and Italy . There had been poets in 1 ...
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... minds have led up to great and lasting works . We have forgotten all these preliminary attempts , crude and imperfect , to speak with force and truth , or to sing with measure and grace . There is no reason why they should be remembered ...
... minds have led up to great and lasting works . We have forgotten all these preliminary attempts , crude and imperfect , to speak with force and truth , or to sing with measure and grace . There is no reason why they should be remembered ...
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... minds ; the religious wars in France , the death of the Duke of Guise ( 1563 ) , the loss 1 H. B. Wilson , Hist . of Merchant Taylors ' School , p . 23 . of Havre , and expulsion of the English garrisons , 1. ] 9 SPENSER'S EARLY LIFE .
... minds ; the religious wars in France , the death of the Duke of Guise ( 1563 ) , the loss 1 H. B. Wilson , Hist . of Merchant Taylors ' School , p . 23 . of Havre , and expulsion of the English garrisons , 1. ] 9 SPENSER'S EARLY LIFE .
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... mind , as it suited that of all but the most independent Englishmen of the time - Shakespere , Bacon , Ralegh . Little is known of Spenser's Cambridge career . It is probable , from the persons with whom he was connected , that he would ...
... mind , as it suited that of all but the most independent Englishmen of the time - Shakespere , Bacon , Ralegh . Little is known of Spenser's Cambridge career . It is probable , from the persons with whom he was connected , that he would ...
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... mind and intellectual bias he had little in common with the puritans . For the stern austerities of Calvinism , its fierce and eager scholasticism , its isolation from human history , human enjoyment , and all the mani fold play and ...
... mind and intellectual bias he had little in common with the puritans . For the stern austerities of Calvinism , its fierce and eager scholasticism , its isolation from human history , human enjoyment , and all the mani fold play and ...
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