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... Christian philosopher . They are perfectly justified in doing so by the poet's own example and invitation , but they ... Christianity was constantly calling upon him to renounce such vanities . The contradiction is apparent from the ...
... Christian philosopher . They are perfectly justified in doing so by the poet's own example and invitation , but they ... Christianity was constantly calling upon him to renounce such vanities . The contradiction is apparent from the ...
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... but he was too much delighted with them to suppress them altogether , and his Muse very seldom prompted the Christian in him to lyrical or descriptive flights of equal beauty . IDEAS , MORAL AND RELIGIOUS 29 Are we to conclude 28 SPENSER.
... but he was too much delighted with them to suppress them altogether , and his Muse very seldom prompted the Christian in him to lyrical or descriptive flights of equal beauty . IDEAS , MORAL AND RELIGIOUS 29 Are we to conclude 28 SPENSER.
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... Christianity . One finds but few traces of direct com- munion with Christ in him . The spirit of the Gospel is mostly absent from his verse . He has much less of it than his master Chaucer himself , though the latter was , generally ...
... Christianity . One finds but few traces of direct com- munion with Christ in him . The spirit of the Gospel is mostly absent from his verse . He has much less of it than his master Chaucer himself , though the latter was , generally ...
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... Christ withstood he faints as he y through bodily ed a single instant deserves a crown . creatures base " to by saving and res- utter contradiction outburst of humble known to or unfelt by Spen powerful scene in the Cave Cross Knight ...
... Christ withstood he faints as he y through bodily ed a single instant deserves a crown . creatures base " to by saving and res- utter contradiction outburst of humble known to or unfelt by Spen powerful scene in the Cave Cross Knight ...
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... Christian who ha fears damnation , is also ( especially in the f a picture of the tædium vitæ , of the wear And Giant Despair speaks at times like Sirens pleading for rest : Who travels by the weary wandering To come unto his wishèd ...
... Christian who ha fears damnation , is also ( especially in the f a picture of the tædium vitæ , of the wear And Giant Despair speaks at times like Sirens pleading for rest : Who travels by the weary wandering To come unto his wishèd ...
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Page 41 - Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth; Glad hearts, without reproach or blot, Who do thy work and know it not: Oh!
Page 80 - Unless she do him by the forelock take ; Bid her therefore herself soon ready make, To wait on Love amongst his lovely crew ; Where every one, that misseth then her make, Shall be by him amerced with penance due.
Page 82 - One day I wrote her name upon the strand; But came the waves, and washed it away: Again, I wrote it with a second hand; But came the tide, and made my pains his prey. Vain man, said she, that dost in vain assay A mortal thing so to immortalize; For I myself shall like to this decay, And eke my name be wiped out likewise.
Page 39 - So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight With cheerful grace and amiable sight; For of the soul the body form doth take; For soul is form, and doth the body make.
Page 116 - A little lowly hermitage it was, Down in a dale, hard by a forest's side, Far from resort of people, that did pass In travel to and fro : a little wide There was...
Page 87 - gin to shrill aloud Their merry music that resounds from far, The pipe, the tabor, and the trembling croud, That well agree withouten breach or jar. But most of all, the...
Page 91 - Doe burne, that to us wretched earthly clods In dreadful darknesse lend desired light: And all ye powers which in the same remayne, More then we men can fayne!
Page 68 - In which I have followed all the antique poets historical : first Homer, who in the persons of Agamemnon and Ulysses hath ensampled a good governor and a virtuous man, the one in his Ilias, the other in his Odysseis...
Page 88 - Tell me, ye merchants' daughters, did ye see So fair a creature in your town before...
Page 88 - Almighty's view. Of her, ye virgins,. learn obedience, When so ye come into those holy places, To humble your proud faces. Bring her up to th...