SpenserJ.M. Dent and Sons Limited, 1926 - 140 pages |
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... paint the queen as he knew she was , but as she liked to be painted , and he justified the enormous lie to himself by considering her as a mere figure - head of an ideal England , an ideal feminity . That the poets ' poet was in many ...
... paint the queen as he knew she was , but as she liked to be painted , and he justified the enormous lie to himself by considering her as a mere figure - head of an ideal England , an ideal feminity . That the poets ' poet was in many ...
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... beautifully harmonious verse and painted magnificent frescoes- this is the praise he deserves , and this is enough . His fame is in danger of being injured by those who claim IDEAS , MORAL AND RELIGIOUS 45 gifts for him that 44 SPENSER.
... beautifully harmonious verse and painted magnificent frescoes- this is the praise he deserves , and this is enough . His fame is in danger of being injured by those who claim IDEAS , MORAL AND RELIGIOUS 45 gifts for him that 44 SPENSER.
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... painted by Veronese , and probably visited the aged Titian's studio . This prolonged continental tour instilled a passion for art which is abundantly manifested in his famous romance . His Arcadia is a treasure - house of pictorial ...
... painted by Veronese , and probably visited the aged Titian's studio . This prolonged continental tour instilled a passion for art which is abundantly manifested in his famous romance . His Arcadia is a treasure - house of pictorial ...
Page 102
... painted by Titian ( in the Louvre ) , or at the same scene painted by Correggio , and then read Spenser's stanza , you may well wonder whether he had not one of those pictures before his eyes when he wrote : Soon after that , into a ...
... painted by Titian ( in the Louvre ) , or at the same scene painted by Correggio , and then read Spenser's stanza , you may well wonder whether he had not one of those pictures before his eyes when he wrote : Soon after that , into a ...
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... painted with extreme care . The faces are of secondary importance , as there are no moral characteristics to set off , but the stuffs and accessories are wonderfully rich and appropriate . Take for instance the portrait of the Medua ...
... painted with extreme care . The faces are of secondary importance , as there are no moral characteristics to set off , but the stuffs and accessories are wonderfully rich and appropriate . Take for instance the portrait of the Medua ...
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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...