SpenserJ.M. Dent and Sons Limited, 1926 - 140 pages |
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... colours and hyperboles . Yet it is by far the simplest of the many likenesses of Elizabeth that we owe to the poet . For as she grew older , the queen exacted more and more praise , just as she covered her face more deeply in rouge and ...
... colours and hyperboles . Yet it is by far the simplest of the many likenesses of Elizabeth that we owe to the poet . For as she grew older , the queen exacted more and more praise , just as she covered her face more deeply in rouge and ...
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... colour and charm , and we feel that , will he nill he , the poet here is at one with Palinode : Palinode Is not thilke the merry month of May When love - lads masken in fresh array ? How falls it , then , we no merrier been , Ylike as ...
... colour and charm , and we feel that , will he nill he , the poet here is at one with Palinode : Palinode Is not thilke the merry month of May When love - lads masken in fresh array ? How falls it , then , we no merrier been , Ylike as ...
Page 40
... colours " or " comely composition of parts well measured . " No , " white and red " have no such power . " Proportion of the outward part " is unable to stir the passion of love in the heart . If it were so , the blossoms of the field ...
... colours " or " comely composition of parts well measured . " No , " white and red " have no such power . " Proportion of the outward part " is unable to stir the passion of love in the heart . If it were so , the blossoms of the field ...
Page 48
... colour of the sky over his head , blue and sombre by turns . His piety , though at all times sincere , was more or less apparent according to the seasons more or less engrossing according as he felt the blessings or buffets of fortune ...
... colour of the sky over his head , blue and sombre by turns . His piety , though at all times sincere , was more or less apparent according to the seasons more or less engrossing according as he felt the blessings or buffets of fortune ...
Page 49
... colours than those of his contemporaries . His poetic ambition must have begun with his con- scious years . It is apparent to us in his first published 49 poem - The Shepherd's Calendar . This poem , with CHAPTER III ...
... colours than those of his contemporaries . His poetic ambition must have begun with his con- scious years . It is apparent to us in his first published 49 poem - The Shepherd's Calendar . This poem , with CHAPTER III ...
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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...