| Edmund Spenser - 1596 - 738 pages
...threasure endlesse duare, The which mote have enriched all us heare. 0 cursed Eld, 2 the canker-worme of writs ! How may these rimes, so rude as doth appeare,...Are quite devourd, and brought to nought by little bita! u Then pardon, O most sacred happie Spirit, That I thy labours lost may thus revive, And steale... | |
| Edmund Spenser - 1750 - 324 pages
...the Canker-worm of Writs ; How may thcfc Rhymes (fo rude as doth appear) Hope to endure, fith Works of heavenly Wits Are quite devour'd, and brought to nought by little Bit.. XXXIV. Then pardon, O moft (acred happy Spirit, •i That I thy Labours loft may thus revive... | |
| Edmund Spenser - Epic poetry, English - 1758 - 800 pages
...eld, the canker-worme of writs, How may thefe rimes, fo rude as doth appeare, Hope to endure, fith workes of heavenly wits Are quite devourd, and brought to nought by little bits ? XXXIV. Then pardon, o moft facred happie fpirit, That I thy labours loft may thus revive, And fteale from thee the meede... | |
| Edmund Spenser - 1758 - 514 pages
...the canker-worm of writs ; How may thefe rhimes (fo rude as doth appear) Hope to endure, fith works of heavenly wits Are quite devour'd, and brought to nought by little bits ? XXXIV. Then pardon, O moft facred happy fpirit, That I thy labours loft may thus revive, And fteal from thee the meed of... | |
| Thomas Warton - Criticism, Textual - 1762 - 264 pages
...Elde ! the canker-worme of writs; v How may thefe rimes (fo rude, as doth appear) Hope to endure, fith workes of heavenly wits Are quite devour'd, and brought to nought by little bits ! Thus Chaucer. This old ftorie in latine, which I finde Of queen Annelida, and falfe Arcite, That... | |
| John Bell - English poetry - 1782 - 552 pages
...the canker-worm of wits, How may thcfe rhymes (fo rtide as doth appear) Hope to endure, fith works of heavenly wits Are quite devour'd, and brought to nought by little bits ? 3ft XXXIII. Then pardon, O mod facred happy fpirit ! That 1 thy labours loft may thus revive, And... | |
| English poetry - 1788 - 550 pages
...threasure endlesse deare, The which mote have enriched all us heare. 0 cursed Eld, the canker-worme of writs, How may these rimes, so rude as doth appeare,...Are quite devourd, and brought to nought by little XXXIV. [bits ? Then pardon, O most sacred happie spirit ! That 1 thy labours lost may thus revive,... | |
| 1792 - 774 pages
...Eld, the cankcr-wormc of writs, How may thefe rimes, fo rude as doth appeare, Hope to endure, fith workes of heavenly wits Are quite devourd, and brought to nought by littJe bits? xxxiv. Then pardon, О moft facred happie fpirit ! That I thy labours loft may thus revive,... | |
| Edmund Spenser - 1805 - 504 pages
...Eld, the canker-worme of writs ! How may thefe rirnes, fo rude as doth appeare, Hope to endure, fith workes of heavenly wits Are quite devourd, and brought to nought by little bits ! XXXIV. Then pardon, O moft facred happie Spirit, That I thy labours loft may thus revive, And fteale from thee the meede... | |
| Edmund Spenser - 1805 - 496 pages
...Eld, the canker-worme of writs ! How may thefe rirnes, fo rude as doth appeare, Hope to endure, fith workes of heavenly wits Are quite devourd, and brought...nought by little bits ! • Xxxiv. Then pardon, O moft facred happie Spirit, That I thy labours loft may thus revive, And fteale from thee the meede... | |
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