SpenserJ.M. Dent and Sons Limited, 1926 - 140 pages |
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... echo . He has made those rhetorical disquisitions his own . They are present everywhere in his works . His Complaints , especially the Visions of the World's Vanity , are full of the same melancholy , of the monotonous description of ...
... echo . He has made those rhetorical disquisitions his own . They are present everywhere in his works . His Complaints , especially the Visions of the World's Vanity , are full of the same melancholy , of the monotonous description of ...
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... echo him . So Shakespeare in Love's Labour's Lost , when he makes Biron proclaim that love is the best inspirer of wisdom , that the best of all knowledge is to be gathered from women's eyes : They are the ground , the books , the ...
... echo him . So Shakespeare in Love's Labour's Lost , when he makes Biron proclaim that love is the best inspirer of wisdom , that the best of all knowledge is to be gathered from women's eyes : They are the ground , the books , the ...
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... echo the alternate feeli joy that were stirred in his heart by th insensibility , and then by her consent- beginning to end being full of chaste hu Then came in his last years the two He which suggest the satiety of the husband tion of ...
... echo the alternate feeli joy that were stirred in his heart by th insensibility , and then by her consent- beginning to end being full of chaste hu Then came in his last years the two He which suggest the satiety of the husband tion of ...
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... echo ring ? Let us pause here to say that in the four lines itali- cised we find perhaps the most admirable expression of Spenser's Platonic conception of outward beauty which , he says , leads the mind , " with many a stately stair ...
... echo ring ? Let us pause here to say that in the four lines itali- cised we find perhaps the most admirable expression of Spenser's Platonic conception of outward beauty which , he says , leads the mind , " with many a stately stair ...
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... echo ring . But after this ceremony the pagan mood of the festival breaks out once more . In a lively bacchic stanza we have the banquet full of true rustic profusion of meat and wine , and boundless hospitality : Pour out the wine ...
... echo ring . But after this ceremony the pagan mood of the festival breaks out once more . In a lively bacchic stanza we have the banquet full of true rustic profusion of meat and wine , and boundless hospitality : Pour out the wine ...
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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...