Observations on the Fairy Queen of Spenser, Volume 1C. Stower, 1820 |
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... Italy , when the genuine and uncorrupted sources of ancient poetry and ancient cri- ticism were opened , and every species of literature at last emerged from the depths of Gothic ignorance and barbarity , it might have been expected ...
... Italy , when the genuine and uncorrupted sources of ancient poetry and ancient cri- ticism were opened , and every species of literature at last emerged from the depths of Gothic ignorance and barbarity , it might have been expected ...
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... Italians at least , any greater share of esteem and reputation on that account . Ariosto , with all his extravagancies , was still preferred . The superiority of the Orlando Furioso was at length established by a formal decree of the ...
... Italians at least , any greater share of esteem and reputation on that account . Ariosto , with all his extravagancies , was still preferred . The superiority of the Orlando Furioso was at length established by a formal decree of the ...
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... Italy , the partisans on the side of Ariosto were by far the most powerful , and conse- quently in England : for Italy , in the age of queen Elizabeth , gave laws to our island in all matters of taste , as France has done ever 5.
... Italy , the partisans on the side of Ariosto were by far the most powerful , and conse- quently in England : for Italy , in the age of queen Elizabeth , gave laws to our island in all matters of taste , as France has done ever 5.
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... Italian passes from one inci- dent to another , and from region to region , with such incredible expedition and rapidity , that one would think he was mounted upon his winged steed Ippogrifo . Within the compass of ten stanzas , he is ...
... Italian passes from one inci- dent to another , and from region to region , with such incredible expedition and rapidity , that one would think he was mounted upon his winged steed Ippogrifo . Within the compass of ten stanzas , he is ...
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... Italians at pre- sent sing Tasso and Ariosto . Adam Bell and Clym of the Clough were two famous archers : the former of which is on that account alluded to by Shakspeare . The same author in another place speaks of this kind of ...
... Italians at pre- sent sing Tasso and Ariosto . Adam Bell and Clym of the Clough were two famous archers : the former of which is on that account alluded to by Shakspeare . The same author in another place speaks of this kind of ...
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afterwards alludes ancient Apollonius autem ballad Beast beautiful Bevis bite borrowed Britomartis called castle Caxton's censured Charlemagne Chaucer chivalry circumstance Cocytus copied from Ariosto copied from Chaucer Cupid darraine doth dragon edit enchanted English Faerie faire Fairy Queen fiction flesh Genius glitterand golden Harrington hath hero hint Homer horn horse House of Fame Hylas Ibid imitation Italian Jonson Joseph of Arimathea King Arthur Knight's Tale Lady Lake likewise Lond manner mentioned Merlin Milton Morte Arthur noble old romance Onomacritus Ophion Orlando Orlando Furioso Orpheus Orthrus passage Pastorals poem poet poetry Prince Arthur printed Queen Elizabeth's Questing Beast reader rhyme Rime of Sir round table satires seems Silius Italicus Sir Dagonet Sir Topas song speaks Spen Spenser Squier's Tale stanza story supposed sword Talus thou tion tongue translated tree twelve peers unto verses word written δε
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Page 342 - Through the dear might of him that walked the waves. Where other groves and other streams along, With nectar pure his oozy locks he laves, And hears the unexpressive nuptial song, In the blest kingdoms meek of joy and love. There entertain him all the saints above, In solemn troops, and sweet societies, That sing, and singing in their glory move, And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes.
Page 302 - AND I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
Page 23 - With mazy error, under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise ; which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain...
Page 350 - Albracca, as romances tell, The city of Gallaphrone, from thence to win The fairest of her sex Angelica, His daughter, sought by many prowest knights, Both Paynim, and the peers of Charlemain.
Page 72 - ... blind harpers or such like taverne minstrels that give a fit of mirth for a groat, and their matters being for the most part stories of old time, as the tale of sir Topas, the reportes of Bevis of Southampton, Guy of Warwicke, Adam Bell, and Clymme of the Clough, and such other old romances or historicall rimes, made purposely for recreation of the common people at christmasse diners and brideales, and in tavernes and alehouses, and such other places of base resort.
Page 348 - Sirens' harmony, That sit upon the nine infolded spheres, And sing to those that hold the vital shears, And turn the adamantine spindle round On which the fate of gods and men is wound. Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie, To lull the daughters of Necessity, And keep unsteady Nature to her law, And the low world in measured motion draw After the heavenly tune, which none can hear Of human mould with gross unpurged ear.
Page 190 - The birch for shaftes, the sallow for the mill, The mirrhe sweete bleeding in the bitter wound, The warlike beech, the ash for nothing ill, The fruitful olive, and the platane round, The carver holme, the maple seeldom inward sound.
Page 21 - We who live in the days of writing by rule, are apt to try every composition by those laws which we have been taught to think the sole criterion of excellence.
Page 344 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Page 113 - Therefore a God him sage Antiquity Did wisely make, and good Agdistes call ; But this same was to that quite contrary, The foe of life, that good envyes to all, That secretly doth us procure to fall...