SpenserJ.M. Dent and Sons Limited, 1926 - 140 pages |
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... in two years he was couched on the sick lis less than sixteen weeks in all . Great sensiti and soul was the consequence of that si ment . Spenser was much like the young c ( in his Second Eclogue ) who could bear unrepiningly.
... in two years he was couched on the sick lis less than sixteen weeks in all . Great sensiti and soul was the consequence of that si ment . Spenser was much like the young c ( in his Second Eclogue ) who could bear unrepiningly.
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... soul , his pride and his genius . There is none of that passion , none of that exquisite tenderness in Spenser . Perhaps the word friendship is not the most proper after all to describe his relation to the men of his time with whom he ...
... soul , his pride and his genius . There is none of that passion , none of that exquisite tenderness in Spenser . Perhaps the word friendship is not the most proper after all to describe his relation to the men of his time with whom he ...
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... soul exceeds and eclipses the charms of her features . She is the flower of virgins , the daughter of Pan , King of Shepherds , i.e. Henry VIII . , and of blameless Syrinx , i.e. Ann Boleyn . These are only a few features of the ...
... soul exceeds and eclipses the charms of her features . She is the flower of virgins , the daughter of Pan , King of Shepherds , i.e. Henry VIII . , and of blameless Syrinx , i.e. Ann Boleyn . These are only a few features of the ...
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... soul of the age there was a Savo- narola fighting against an Ariosto or a Titian . The tragedy in Spenser's case , for it is scarcely less than a tragedy , was that he had to say nay to his very genius . He was born to sing May ...
... soul of the age there was a Savo- narola fighting against an Ariosto or a Titian . The tragedy in Spenser's case , for it is scarcely less than a tragedy , was that he had to say nay to his very genius . He was born to sing May ...
Page 32
... soul to sleep in quiet grave ? Sleep after toil , port after stormy seas , Ease after war , death after life , does greatly please . It is evident that the Bible was never foremost among the books that Spenser read , or at any rate that ...
... soul to sleep in quiet grave ? Sleep after toil , port after stormy seas , Ease after war , death after life , does greatly please . It is evident that the Bible was never foremost among the books that Spenser read , or at any rate that ...
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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...