 | Edmund Spenser - 1855 - 1072 pages
...Thus much, Sir, I have briefly overronne to direct your understanding to the wel-head of the hjstory ; that, from thence gathering the whole intention of the conceit, ye may as in a handfull gripe al the discourse, which otherwise may happily seeme tedious and confused. So, humbly... | |
 | Edmund Spenser, George Gilfillan - 1859 - 336 pages
...virtuousness - of Belphcebe, the lasciviousness of Hellenora, and many the like. This much, Sir, I have briefly overrun to direct your understanding to the...handful gripe all the discourse, which otherwise may happily seem tedious and confused. So humbly craving the continuance of your honourable favoiir towards... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1862 - 522 pages
...Thus much, Sir, I have briefly overronne to diretl your under/landing to the wel-head of the Hijiory ; that from thence gathering the whole intention of the conceit, ye may as in a handfull gripe al the difcourfe, which otherwife may happily feeme tedious and confufed. So, humbly... | |
 | Museum and English journal of education - 1863 - 576 pages
...virtue, which I write of in that book." " Thus much, Sir," he concludes, " I have briefly over- run, to direct your understanding to the well-head of the...thence gathering the whole intention of the conceit, you may as in a handful gripe all the discourse, which otherwise may haply seem tedious and confused."... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1867 - 284 pages
...many the like. Thus much, Sir, I have briefly overronne to direct your understanding to the wel-head of the History; that, from thence gathering the whole intention of the conceit, ye may as in a handfull gripe al the discourse, which otherwise may happily seem tedious and confused. So, humbly... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1867 - 304 pages
...many the like. Thus much, Sir, I have briefly overronne to direct your understanding to the wel-head of the History; that, from thence gathering the whole intention of the conceit, ye may as in a handfull gripe al the discourse, which otherwise may happily seem tedious and confused. So, humbly... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1869 - 308 pages
...many the like. Thus much, Sir, I have briefly over-run to direct your understanding to the wel-head of the History, that from thence gathering the whole intention of the conceit, ye may as in a handfull gripe all the discourse, which otherwise may happely seem tedious and confused. So humbly... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1870 - 664 pages
...« Deliberate parts of tho plan. briefly overran to direct your understanding to the well-head oí the history, that, from thence gathering the whole intention of the conceit, ye may ав in a handful gripe1 all the discourse, which otherwise may haply веет tedious and confused.... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1872 - 640 pages
...many the like. Thus much, Sir, I have briefly overronne to direct your understanding to the wel-head of the History , that, from thence gathering the whole...intention of the conceit, ye may as in a handful gripe al the discourse, which otherwise may happily seem tedious and confused. So, humbly craving the continuance... | |
 | Henry Morley - English literature - 1873 - 964 pages
...told so much of what its readers could have found in the whole work as was necessary to direct their understanding to the well-head of the history, " that...the whole intention of the conceit, ye may as in a handfull gripe at the discourse." He gave the clue into our hands, and then left us to find our own... | |
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I have briefly overronne, to direct your understanding to the wel-head of the history, that from thence gathering the whole intention of the conceit, ye may, as in a handfull, gripe al the discourse, which otherwise may happily seeme tedious and confused.... 
