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Page 136
... scenes which few people now like to look upon in company - scenes and descriptions which may perhaps from the habits of the time may have been playfully and innocently produced , but which it is certainly not easy to dwell upon ...
... scenes which few people now like to look upon in company - scenes and descriptions which may perhaps from the habits of the time may have been playfully and innocently produced , but which it is certainly not easy to dwell upon ...
Page 137
... scene , he never knows where to stop . His duels go on stanza after stanza till there is no sound part left in either champion . His palaces , landscapes , pageants , feasts , are taken to pieces in all their parts , and all these parts ...
... scene , he never knows where to stop . His duels go on stanza after stanza till there is no sound part left in either champion . His palaces , landscapes , pageants , feasts , are taken to pieces in all their parts , and all these parts ...
Page 140
... scenes of a masque , and re- lieved against the background of a stage - curtain . Human life , in those days ... scene ever before Spenser's imagination ; and its quaintness , because the whole outward apparatus of representation ...
... scenes of a masque , and re- lieved against the background of a stage - curtain . Human life , in those days ... scene ever before Spenser's imagination ; and its quaintness , because the whole outward apparatus of representation ...
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