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It appealed to the reader's feelings , or sympathy , or passion . It attempted to raise its subject above the level of mere matter of fact . It sought for choice and expressive words ; it called in the belp of measure and rhythm .
It appealed to the reader's feelings , or sympathy , or passion . It attempted to raise its subject above the level of mere matter of fact . It sought for choice and expressive words ; it called in the belp of measure and rhythm .
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spread passion for poetry . The specimens which they quote and praise are mostly grotesque to the last degree . Webbe improves some gracefully flowing lines of Spenser's into the most portentous Sapphics ; and Puttenham squeezes ...
spread passion for poetry . The specimens which they quote and praise are mostly grotesque to the last degree . Webbe improves some gracefully flowing lines of Spenser's into the most portentous Sapphics ; and Puttenham squeezes ...
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Spenser's types of manhood are imperfect without the idea of an absorbing and overmastering passion of love ; without a devotion , as to the principal and most worthy object of life , to the service of a beautiful lady , and to winning ...
Spenser's types of manhood are imperfect without the idea of an absorbing and overmastering passion of love ; without a devotion , as to the principal and most worthy object of life , to the service of a beautiful lady , and to winning ...
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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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