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Page viii
... looked to Rome for spiritual guidance and to Italy and France for inspiration and teaching in literary matters . Now at last she was to take her true place in the onward march of the nations . The discovery of America and the subsequent ...
... looked to Rome for spiritual guidance and to Italy and France for inspiration and teaching in literary matters . Now at last she was to take her true place in the onward march of the nations . The discovery of America and the subsequent ...
Page xviii
... looked upon as England's enemies . From the Epithalamion we infer that he was able to invest those dearest to him with something of that ideal beauty which was always seeking expression in his writings . Perhaps , however , the most ...
... looked upon as England's enemies . From the Epithalamion we infer that he was able to invest those dearest to him with something of that ideal beauty which was always seeking expression in his writings . Perhaps , however , the most ...
Page xx
... Chaucer with his archaic forms could no longer serve as teacher and inspirer , and the verse - makers , lacking an English model , looked to Italy for instruction in their art . - Spenser revealed to his contemporaries the XX INTRODUCTION .
... Chaucer with his archaic forms could no longer serve as teacher and inspirer , and the verse - makers , lacking an English model , looked to Italy for instruction in their art . - Spenser revealed to his contemporaries the XX INTRODUCTION .
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... Looked forth , as Phoebus ' 12 face out of the east 1 Closet , small room for retire- ment . 2 Tho , then . 3 Avising , bethinking . Of that mote , of that which might . 5 Falleth , happeneth . 6 Buxom , yielding . Use to done , i.e. ...
... Looked forth , as Phoebus ' 12 face out of the east 1 Closet , small room for retire- ment . 2 Tho , then . 3 Avising , bethinking . Of that mote , of that which might . 5 Falleth , happeneth . 6 Buxom , yielding . Use to done , i.e. ...
Page 112
... looked about , she did behold How over that same door was likewise writ , Be bold , Be bold , and everywhere , Be bold ; That much she mused , yet could not construe it By any riddling skill or common wit . At last she spied at that ...
... looked about , she did behold How over that same door was likewise writ , Be bold , Be bold , and everywhere , Be bold ; That much she mused , yet could not construe it By any riddling skill or common wit . At last she spied at that ...
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Page ix - Did both find, helpers to their hearts' desire, And stuff at hand, plastic as they could wish, — Were called upon to exercise their skill, Not in Utopia, — subterranean fields, — Or some secreted island, Heaven knows where! But in the very world, which is the world Of all of us, — the place where, in the end, We find our happiness, or not at all...
Page xxii - The generall end therefore of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline...
Page xxx - Queene to assygne her some one of her knights to take on him that exployt. Presently that clownish person upstarting, desired that adventure; whereat the Queene much wondering, and the Lady much gainesaying, yet he earnestly importuned his desire...
Page xv - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide : To lose good days, that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Princes
Page xxvii - I have followed all the antique Poets historicall, first Homere, who in the Persons of Agamemnon and Ulysses hath ensampled a good governour and a vertuous man, the one in his Ilias, the other in his Odysseis: then Virgil, whose like intention was to doe in the person of...
Page 94 - And in the thickest covert of that shade, There was a pleasant arbour, not by art, But of the trees...
Page xxix - The beginning therefore of my history, if it were to be told by an Historiographer should be the twelfth booke, which is the last; where I devise that the Faery Queene kept her Annuall feaste xii.
Page xi - Fit to deck maidens' bowers, And crown their paramours Against the bridal day, which is not long: Sweet Thames! run softly, till I end my song.
Page xxix - For the methode of a poet historical is not such as of an historiographer. For an historiographer discourseth of affayres orderly as they were donne, accounting as well the times as the actions; but a poet thrusteth into the middest, even where it most concerneth him, and there recoursing to the thinges forepaste, and divining of thinges to come, maketh a pleasing analysis of all.
Page xv - To have thy asking, yet wait many years ; To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares — To eat thy heart through comfortless despairs. To fawn, to crouch, to wait, to ride, to run, To spend, to give, to want, to be undone.