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... truth , or to sing with measure and grace . There is no reason why they should be remembered , except by professed inquirers into the antiquities of our literature ; they were usually clumsy and awkward , sometimes grotesque , often ...
... truth , or to sing with measure and grace . There is no reason why they should be remembered , except by professed inquirers into the antiquities of our literature ; they were usually clumsy and awkward , sometimes grotesque , often ...
Page 90
... truth were Sansfoy , and Sansloy , and Sansjoy ; there were Orgoglio and Grantorto , the witcheries of Acrasia and Phædria , the insolence of Briana and Crudor . And there , too , were real Knights of goodness and the Gospel - Grey ...
... truth were Sansfoy , and Sansloy , and Sansjoy ; there were Orgoglio and Grantorto , the witcheries of Acrasia and Phædria , the insolence of Briana and Crudor . And there , too , were real Knights of goodness and the Gospel - Grey ...
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... truth is that the power of ordering and connecting a long and complicated plan was not one of Spenser's gifts . In the first two books , the allegorical story proceeds from point to point with fair coherence and consecutiveness . After ...
... truth is that the power of ordering and connecting a long and complicated plan was not one of Spenser's gifts . In the first two books , the allegorical story proceeds from point to point with fair coherence and consecutiveness . After ...
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