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Page 36
... never had existed , which , any how , was only a world of memory and sentiment . He never threw himself frankly on human life as it is ; he always viewed it through a veil of mist which greatly altered its true colours , and often ...
... never had existed , which , any how , was only a world of memory and sentiment . He never threw himself frankly on human life as it is ; he always viewed it through a veil of mist which greatly altered its true colours , and often ...
Page 141
... never forgets itself , and with an inexhaustible succession of circumstance , fantasy , and incident . Nor is it always solemn and high - pitched . Its gravity is relieved from time to time with the ridicu- lous figure or character ...
... never forgets itself , and with an inexhaustible succession of circumstance , fantasy , and incident . Nor is it always solemn and high - pitched . Its gravity is relieved from time to time with the ridicu- lous figure or character ...
Page 149
... never fails , that his ear is never dull or off its guard . But when the length and magnitude of the composition are considered , with the restraints im- posed by the new nine - line stanza , however convenient it may have been , the ...
... never fails , that his ear is never dull or off its guard . But when the length and magnitude of the composition are considered , with the restraints im- posed by the new nine - line stanza , however convenient it may have been , the ...
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admiration adventure allegory amid appears Arthegal beauty Burghley character Chaucer Colin Clout's Court dangerous delight Desmond doth Earl Edmund Spenser Elizabeth England English poetry Englishmen evil eyes Faery Queen fashion favour Gabriel Harvey gentle Geoffrey Fenton grace Grantorto Grindal Harvey's hath honour ideas imagination Ireland Irish Italian John Norreys Kilcolman knights Lady land language Leicester literary Lord Grey Lord Grey's ment Merchant Taylors mind moral Munster Muses natural ness never noble Norreys passion pastoral peace perhaps person Petrarch Philip Sidney picture poem poet poet's poetical praise Prince published Puritan rebellion Rosalind scene scorn seems Shakespere Shepherd's Calendar Sidney's Sir Walter Ralegh Smerwick Sonnets Spenser spirit story strange sweetness things thou thought tion translations truth unto verse vertues Virgil Walter Ralegh wont words writes