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Page ii
... poets among us than any other of our writers ; poetry being firft kindled in the imagination , which Spenfer writes to ... poet . The moft known and celebrated of his Works , though I will not say the most perfect , is the Faerie Queene ...
... poets among us than any other of our writers ; poetry being firft kindled in the imagination , which Spenfer writes to ... poet . The moft known and celebrated of his Works , though I will not say the most perfect , is the Faerie Queene ...
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... poets were diftinguished from hiftorians and philofophers , though the latter fometimes invaded the province of the poet , and delivered their doc- trines likewife in allegories or parables : and this , when they did not purposely make ...
... poets were diftinguished from hiftorians and philofophers , though the latter fometimes invaded the province of the poet , and delivered their doc- trines likewife in allegories or parables : and this , when they did not purposely make ...
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... poet's brain , and actions furprifing , and without the bounds of probability or nature . In works of this kind it is impoffible for the reader to reft in the literal fenfe , but he is of neceffity driven to feek for another meaning ...
... poet's brain , and actions furprifing , and without the bounds of probability or nature . In works of this kind it is impoffible for the reader to reft in the literal fenfe , but he is of neceffity driven to feek for another meaning ...
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... poet only as an omen , and to raise what is commonly called the Wonderful , which is a property as effential to epick poetry as probability . Homer's giving speech to the river Xanthus in the Iliad , and to the horses of Achilles , feem ...
... poet only as an omen , and to raise what is commonly called the Wonderful , which is a property as effential to epick poetry as probability . Homer's giving speech to the river Xanthus in the Iliad , and to the horses of Achilles , feem ...
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... poets have not avoided it . But to allow a poet to in- troduce Mars and Minerva , and to forbid him to make use of Sleep , and Death , and Fear , and Difcord , & c . as actors , feems to be injudicious , founded upon a weak prejudice ...
... poets have not avoided it . But to allow a poet to in- troduce Mars and Minerva , and to forbid him to make use of Sleep , and Death , and Fear , and Difcord , & c . as actors , feems to be injudicious , founded upon a weak prejudice ...
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Page xxxv - To th' instruments divine respondence meet; The silver sounding instruments did meet With the base murmure of the waters fall; The waters fall with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call; The gentle warbling wind low answered to all.
Page 7 - 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 19 - Yet wisedome warnes, whilest foot is in the gate, To stay the steppe, ere forced to retrate. This is the wandring wood, this Errours den, A monster vile, whom God and man does hate : Therefore I read beware. Fly, fly (quoth then The fearefull Dwarfe) this is no place for living men.
Page ccv - And in Her Majesty's time that now is, are sprung up another crew of courtly makers, noblemen and gentlemen of Her Majesty's own servants, who have written excellently well, as it would appear if their doings could be found out and made public with the rest, of which number is first that noble gentleman, Edward, Earl of Oxford...
Page viii - Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That own'd the virtuous ring and glass; And of the wondrous horse of brass, On which the Tartar king did ride...
Page 47 - Ah Sir, my liege lord, and my love, Shall I accuse the hidden cruell fate. And mightie causes wrought in heaven above, Or the blind god, that doth me thus amate. For hoped love to winne me certaine hate? Yet thus perforce he bids me do, or die. Die is my dew ; yet rew my wretched state, You, whom my hard avenging destinie Hath made judge of my life or death indifferently. LII. "Your owne deare sake forst me at first to leave My fathers kingdom...
Page 43 - Who all this while, with charmes and hidden artes, Had made a lady of that other spright, And fram'd of liquid ayre her tender partes, So...
Page 8 - 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 30 - At length they chaunst to meet upon the way An aged Sire, in long blacke weedes yclad, His feete all bare, his beard all hoarie gray, And by his belt his booke he hanging had...
Page cxi - And there appeared another wonder in heaven ; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth...