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... cause , Spenser , pro- bably soon after his having taken his Master's degree , seems to have quitted the university in disgust . It has been asserted , that his resolution to withdraw was adopted in consequence of his having failed in a ...
... cause , Spenser , pro- bably soon after his having taken his Master's degree , seems to have quitted the university in disgust . It has been asserted , that his resolution to withdraw was adopted in consequence of his having failed in a ...
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... cause , Harvey appears to have foreseen ; for , in his answer to Spenser , he says , " As for your speedy and hasty travell , methinks I dare stil wager al the books and writings in my study , which you know I esteeme of greater value ...
... cause , Harvey appears to have foreseen ; for , in his answer to Spenser , he says , " As for your speedy and hasty travell , methinks I dare stil wager al the books and writings in my study , which you know I esteeme of greater value ...
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... cause of Burleigh's dislike of him is traced , by some biographers , to Spenser's connection with his political opponents , the earls of Leicester and Essex , and to the poet's praise of Archbishop Grindal , to whom Burleigh was an ...
... cause of Burleigh's dislike of him is traced , by some biographers , to Spenser's connection with his political opponents , the earls of Leicester and Essex , and to the poet's praise of Archbishop Grindal , to whom Burleigh was an ...
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... cause to venerate the memory of Spenser . His work breathes almost throughout a spirit of rancour against that mis- governed and unhappy country . Perhaps it was as a reward for this work that , about this time , he was appointed Clerk ...
... cause to venerate the memory of Spenser . His work breathes almost throughout a spirit of rancour against that mis- governed and unhappy country . Perhaps it was as a reward for this work that , about this time , he was appointed Clerk ...
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... cause in the Netherlands . Such distraction of alle- gory cannot well be said to make a fair experiment of its power . The poet may cover his moral mean- ing under a single and transparent veil of fiction ; but he has no right to muffle ...
... cause in the Netherlands . Such distraction of alle- gory cannot well be said to make a fair experiment of its power . The poet may cover his moral mean- ing under a single and transparent veil of fiction ; but he has no right to muffle ...
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adamant rocke Archimago armes Beast behold blood brest Britomartis CANTO chaunce chaunst corage corse courser cruell Dame deadly deare death devize dismaid dore doth dread dreadfull Duessa EDMUND SPENSER Elfin Knight Enchaunter enimy eternall evermore eyes Faery Knight Faery Queene faire faire Lady false Duessa fast fayre feare feeble flowre fowle gentle goodly grace griefe grone Gyaunt hand hart hast hath heaven heavenly hight himselfe ioyous Lady light living wight Lord mightie Muse never nigh noble nought Paynim poet powre pray Prince proud quake quight quoth rage Redcrosse Knight Sansfoy seemd selfe sence Shee shew shield shyne sight Sith sonne sore sownd speach Spenser spide spright staind steed straunge suddein sunne sweet syre thee thou traveiled trew unto vaine vertues Virgin wandring wearie weene whenas wondrous wonne wont wound wrath wretched wyde yron
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Page 29 - A GENTLE Knight was pricking on the plaine, Ycladd in mightie armes and silver shielde, Wherein old dints of deepe woundes did remaine, The cruell markes of many a bloody fielde ; Yet armes till that time did he never wield : His angry steede did chide his foming bitt, As much disdayning to the curbe to yield : Full jolly knight he seemd, and faire did sitt, As one for knightly giusts and fierce encounters fitt.
Page 4 - 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 3 - The generall end therefore of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline...
Page 65 - One day, nigh wearie of the yrkesome way, From her unhastie beast she did alight; And on the grasse her dainty limbs did lay In...
Page 184 - Come, come away, fraile, feeble, fleshly wight, Ne let vaine words bewitch thy manly hart, Ne divelish thoughts dismay thy constant spright : In heavenly mercies hast thou not a part ? Why shouldst thou then despeire, that chosen art...
Page 51 - He then devisde himselfe how to disguise; For by his mighty science he could take As many formes and shapes in seeming wise, As ever Proteus to himselfe could make: Sometime a fowle, sometime a fish in lake, Now like a foxe, now like a dragon fell; That of himselfe he ofte for feare would quake, And oft would flie away.
Page 190 - She was araied all in lilly white, And in her right hand bore a cup of gold, With wine and water fild up to the hight, In which a Serpent did himselfe enfold, That horrour made to all that did behold ; But she no...
Page 30 - To prove his puissance in battell brave Upon his foe, and his new force to learne; Upon his foe, a Dragon horrible and stearne.
Page 40 - Sir knight, ye have advised bin, (Quoth then that aged man) the way to win Is wisely to advise: now day is spent; Therefore with me ye may take up your in For this same night.
Page 66 - O how can beautie maister the most strong, And simple truth subdue avenging wrong! Whose yielded...