Complete Works of Edmund SpenserMacmillan, 1893 - 736 pages |
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Page xv
... never did any do it more to the height , or with greater art or elegance , if the highest of praises attributed to so heroic a princess can justly be termed flattery . ' * When Spenser's works were reprinted - the first three books of ...
... never did any do it more to the height , or with greater art or elegance , if the highest of praises attributed to so heroic a princess can justly be termed flattery . ' * When Spenser's works were reprinted - the first three books of ...
Page xxxv
... never , perhaps , more weeping , poetical and other , over any death than over that of Sidney — in his Astrophel , the poem above mentioned . This poem is scarcely worthy of the sad occasion - the flower of knight- hood cut down ere its ...
... never , perhaps , more weeping , poetical and other , over any death than over that of Sidney — in his Astrophel , the poem above mentioned . This poem is scarcely worthy of the sad occasion - the flower of knight- hood cut down ere its ...
Page xlii
... never stained moral purity , its subtle spiritualness - but also to the time of its appearance . For then nearly two centuries no great poem had been written in the English tongue . Chaucer had died heirless . Occleve's lament over that ...
... never stained moral purity , its subtle spiritualness - but also to the time of its appearance . For then nearly two centuries no great poem had been written in the English tongue . Chaucer had died heirless . Occleve's lament over that ...
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... never Prince so faithfull and so faire , Was never Prince so meeke and debonaire ; But ere my hoped day of spousall shone , My dearest Lord fell from high honors staire Into the hands of hys accursed fone , He in great passion al this ...
... never Prince so faithfull and so faire , Was never Prince so meeke and debonaire ; But ere my hoped day of spousall shone , My dearest Lord fell from high honors staire Into the hands of hys accursed fone , He in great passion al this ...
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... never Prince so faithfull and so faire , Was never Prince so meeke and debonaire ; But ere my hoped day of spousall shone , My dearest Lord fell from high honors staire Into the hands of hys accursed fone , And cruelly was slaine ; that ...
... never Prince so faithfull and so faire , Was never Prince so meeke and debonaire ; But ere my hoped day of spousall shone , My dearest Lord fell from high honors staire Into the hands of hys accursed fone , And cruelly was slaine ; that ...
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