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Page 36
To the last it moved in a world which was not real , which 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 ...
To the last it moved in a world which was not real , which 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 ...
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So , though Spenser's knights and ladies do what no men ever could do , and speak what no man ever spoke , the procession rolls forward with a pomp which never forgets itself , and with an inexhaustible succession of circumstance ...
So , though Spenser's knights and ladies do what no men ever could do , and speak what no man ever spoke , the procession rolls forward with a pomp which never forgets itself , and with an inexhaustible succession of circumstance ...
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There is one portion of the beauty of the Faery Queen , which in its perfection and fulness had never yet been reached in English poetry . This was the music and melody of his verse . It was this wonderful , almost unfailing sweetness ...
There is one portion of the beauty of the Faery Queen , which in its perfection and fulness had never yet been reached in English poetry . This was the music and melody of his verse . It was this wonderful , almost unfailing sweetness ...
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| Title | Spenser British Writers Series The Gale library of lives and letters. British writers series “The” Gale Library of lives and letters |
| Author | Richard William Church |
| Edition | 2, reprint |
| Publisher | Gale Research Company, 1968 |
| Original from | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Digitized | 15 Mar 2017 |
| ISBN | 0810330571, 9780810330573 |
| Length | 188 pages |
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