SpenserJ.M. Dent and Sons Limited, 1926 - 140 pages |
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... to his poetry must be looked for in his imaginings . His greatest verse is almost impersonal , or at any rate is a record of his dreams rather than of his doings . did than of what he thought or imagine is truest 24 SPENSER.
... to his poetry must be looked for in his imaginings . His greatest verse is almost impersonal , or at any rate is a record of his dreams rather than of his doings . did than of what he thought or imagine is truest 24 SPENSER.
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... looked upon by one and all as the pinnacle and pattern of pure love - this opens up curious vistas into the morals of the age . Spenser's originality , then , was this : that he dedicated his verse to a maiden he could and did marry in ...
... looked upon by one and all as the pinnacle and pattern of pure love - this opens up curious vistas into the morals of the age . Spenser's originality , then , was this : that he dedicated his verse to a maiden he could and did marry in ...
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... looked brides of all those who had once devo to her service , or had declared themselv in poetical style ) her worshippers . But regretting that cautious reservation in this devout , warm - hearted sonnet sequ Such are Spenser's ...
... looked brides of all those who had once devo to her service , or had declared themselv in poetical style ) her worshippers . But regretting that cautious reservation in this devout , warm - hearted sonnet sequ Such are Spenser's ...
Page 96
... looked for in his masterpiece . Picture Spenser as a born painter who never held a brush in his hand . Fate gave him birth in a country where the plastic arts were not to flourish until nearly two centuries later . Had he been born in ...
... looked for in his masterpiece . Picture Spenser as a born painter who never held a brush in his hand . Fate gave him birth in a country where the plastic arts were not to flourish until nearly two centuries later . Had he been born in ...
Page 98
... looked for in Sidney's Arcadia . We know that Sidney had been in Italy and stayed in Venice , where he had his portrait painted by Veronese , and probably visited the aged Titian's studio . This prolonged continental tour instilled a ...
... looked for in Sidney's Arcadia . We know that Sidney had been in Italy and stayed in Venice , where he had his portrait painted by Veronese , and probably visited the aged Titian's studio . This prolonged continental tour instilled a ...
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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...