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... RELIGIOUS III . HIS LITERARY TENETS . " " IV . HIS PERSONAL POETRY : THE AMORET " EPITHALAMION " • V. THE PICTORIAL ELEMENTS IN THE " FAIRY AND ITS CONNECTION WITH THE PICTURE SHOWS , PAGEANTS and MasQUES OF TH VI . THE ATMOSPHERE OF ...
... RELIGIOUS III . HIS LITERARY TENETS . " " IV . HIS PERSONAL POETRY : THE AMORET " EPITHALAMION " • V. THE PICTORIAL ELEMENTS IN THE " FAIRY AND ITS CONNECTION WITH THE PICTURE SHOWS , PAGEANTS and MasQUES OF TH VI . THE ATMOSPHERE OF ...
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... religion , of letters and arts ? Was he inde dazzled by her greatness that his eyes denied of truthfulness in her presence ? Was there naïve , ingenuous sincerity at the bottom flattery ? After weighing everything well , and taki ...
... religion , of letters and arts ? Was he inde dazzled by her greatness that his eyes denied of truthfulness in her presence ? Was there naïve , ingenuous sincerity at the bottom flattery ? After weighing everything well , and taki ...
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... religious and moral - mind obvious from his poems . He never wrote a did not aim at edification . In his Shepher religion fills nearly as much space as love . Hi are full of denunciations of the sins and err men ; they seek to turn ...
... religious and moral - mind obvious from his poems . He never wrote a did not aim at edification . In his Shepher religion fills nearly as much space as love . Hi are full of denunciations of the sins and err men ; they seek to turn ...
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... religion and giving its defenders the best of moral arguments ; he never realised that his poetry might equally well appeal to the ears of the irreligious . This can be exemplified by his Fifth ... RELIGIOUS 27 girls that go out 26 SPENSER.
... religion and giving its defenders the best of moral arguments ; he never realised that his poetry might equally well appeal to the ears of the irreligious . This can be exemplified by his Fifth ... RELIGIOUS 27 girls that go out 26 SPENSER.
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Emile Legouis. IDEAS , MORAL AND RELIGIOUS 27 girls that go out a - maying and would induce Pierce to join them too . Spenser , of course , wants us to approve and reverence Pierce , as well as condemn Palinode , with the odious name ...
Emile Legouis. IDEAS , MORAL AND RELIGIOUS 27 girls that go out a - maying and would induce Pierce to join them too . Spenser , of course , wants us to approve and reverence Pierce , as well as condemn Palinode , with the odious name ...
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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...