SpenserJ.M. Dent and Sons Limited, 1926 - 140 pages |
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... appears to have been the poet of the clan into which his lot happened to be thrown and fought for its chief in bold intrepid verse . This is most evident in his relations to Leicester and Lord Grey of Wilton . In the former instance it ...
... appears to have been the poet of the clan into which his lot happened to be thrown and fought for its chief in bold intrepid verse . This is most evident in his relations to Leicester and Lord Grey of Wilton . In the former instance it ...
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... appears an inext and pagan thoughts . It is from the merely profane monologue , it is true , but not either . To the question — H suicide ? —the negative ans and images . Moreover , the part the despair of a C fears damnation , is also ...
... appears an inext and pagan thoughts . It is from the merely profane monologue , it is true , but not either . To the question — H suicide ? —the negative ans and images . Moreover , the part the despair of a C fears damnation , is also ...
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... appears an inextricable mixtur and pagan thoughts . It is a discussion or from the merely profane point of view monologue , it is true , but not entirely from t either . To the question - Has a man a rig suicide ? -the negative answer ...
... appears an inextricable mixtur and pagan thoughts . It is a discussion or from the merely profane point of view monologue , it is true , but not entirely from t either . To the question - Has a man a rig suicide ? -the negative answer ...
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... appears to be the language of common sense . Harvey mockingly answers that to find the age of gold one has to go very far back indeed into history , surely beyond the time of Sodom and the Tower of Babel , even beyond the time of Cain ...
... appears to be the language of common sense . Harvey mockingly answers that to find the age of gold one has to go very far back indeed into history , surely beyond the time of Sodom and the Tower of Babel , even beyond the time of Cain ...
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... appears from the liveliness of his Co any rate from that part of it which retra and his first happy experiences . The disill on the other hand , gives vent to his m bitterness by publishing his Complaints Vanity . The lover of Elizabeth ...
... appears from the liveliness of his Co any rate from that part of it which retra and his first happy experiences . The disill on the other hand , gives vent to his m bitterness by publishing his Complaints Vanity . The lover of Elizabeth ...
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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...