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... side by side with any poetical composition that had preceded it for a hun- dred and fifty years . The author , while deprecating a comparison with Chaucer and Piers Plouhman , plainly aspires to be considered of their school , and not ...
... side by side with any poetical composition that had preceded it for a hun- dred and fifty years . The author , while deprecating a comparison with Chaucer and Piers Plouhman , plainly aspires to be considered of their school , and not ...
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... side or the other was not likely to receive much at- tention . No talents are too mean for such disputes , and it must have been humiliating indeed to a man like Spenser to be eclipsed by a crowd of vulgar and ignorant wranglers . The ...
... side or the other was not likely to receive much at- tention . No talents are too mean for such disputes , and it must have been humiliating indeed to a man like Spenser to be eclipsed by a crowd of vulgar and ignorant wranglers . The ...
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... side of the miserable natives , and his attention less exclusively directed to the interest of their for- eign masters , his opportunities for observation and his natural sagacity were such as would have enabled him to do both the state ...
... side of the miserable natives , and his attention less exclusively directed to the interest of their for- eign masters , his opportunities for observation and his natural sagacity were such as would have enabled him to do both the state ...
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... side , being the same lands of Renny , near Kilcolman , which had been made over to Hugolin's father , Peregrine , by his elder brother Sylvanus , the father of this William . The interference , however , of the Board of Trustees ...
... side , being the same lands of Renny , near Kilcolman , which had been made over to Hugolin's father , Peregrine , by his elder brother Sylvanus , the father of this William . The interference , however , of the Board of Trustees ...
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... side , Far from resort of people , that did pas In traveill to and froe : a litle wyde 2 There was an holy chappell edifyde , 3 Wherein the Hermite dewly wont to say His holy thinges each morne and eventyde : Thereby a christall streame ...
... side , Far from resort of people , that did pas In traveill to and froe : a litle wyde 2 There was an holy chappell edifyde , 3 Wherein the Hermite dewly wont to say His holy thinges each morne and eventyde : Thereby a christall streame ...
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Page lxxiii - In that Faery Queene I meane glory in my generall intention, but in my particular I conceive the most excellent and glorious person of our soveraine the Queene, and her kingdome in Faery Land.
Page 27 - So pure and innocent, as that same lambe, She was in life and every vertuous lore ; And by descent from Royall lynage came Of ancient Kinges and Queenes, that had of yore Their scepters stretcht from East to Westerne shore...
Page 28 - The Laurell, meed of mightie Conquerours And Poets sage ; the Firre that weepeth still ; The Willow worne of forlorne Paramours ; The Eugh, obedient to the benders will ; The Birch for shaftes ; the Sallow for the mill...
Page 26 - Crosse he bore, The deare remembrance of his dying Lord, For whose sweete sake that glorious badge he wore, And dead, as living, ever him ador'd : Upon his shield the like was also scor'd, For soveraine hope which in his helpe he had.
Page 27 - Behind her farre away a Dwarfe did lag, That lasie seemd, in being ever last, Or wearied with bearing of her bag Of needments at his backe.
Page 1 - ... for a better place. Soone after entred a faire ladye in mourning weedes, riding on a white asse, with a dwarfe behind her leading a warlike steed, that bore the armes of a knight, and his speare in the dwarfes hand.
Page lxxii - 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 Aeneas: after him Ariosto comprised them both in his Orlando : and lately Tasso dissevered them againe, and formed both parts in two persons, namely that part which they in Philosophy call Ethice, or vertues of a private man, coloured...
Page 28 - Joying to heare the birdes sweete harmony, Which, therein shrouded from the tempest dred, Seemd in their song to scorne the cruell sky. Much can they praise the trees so straight and hy, The sayling Pine ; the Cedar proud and tall ; The vine-propp Elme ; the Poplar never dry ; The builder Oake, sole king of forrests all ; The Aspine good for staves ; the Cypresse funerall...
Page 33 - He, making speedy way through spersed ayre, And through the world of waters wide and deepe, To Morpheus house doth hastily repaire. Amid the bowels of the earth full steepe, And low, where dawning day doth never peepe, His dwelling is ; there Tethys his wet bed Doth ever wash, and Cynthia still doth steepe In silver deaw his ever-drouping hed, Whiles sad Night over him her mantle black doth spred.
Page 239 - With gaudy girlonds, or fresh flowrets dight About her necke, or rings of rushes plight : Sometimes, to do him laugh, she would assay To laugh at shaking of the leaves light Or to behold the water worke and play About her little frigot, therein making way.