 | Edmund Spenser - 1897 - 808 pages
...umny the like. Thus much, Sir, I have briefly overronne tn direct your understanding to the wel-head ady yueemBy that proud dame handfull gripe al the discourse, tcnich otherwise may happily seeme tedious and confused. 5o, humoly... | |
 | William John Courthope - English poetry - 1897 - 478 pages
...like. Thus much, sir, I have briefly overrun to direct your understanding to the well-head of this History, that from thence gathering the whole intention of the conceit, ye may as in a handfull, gripe all the discourse, which otherwise may happily seem tedious and confused. So humbly... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1898 - 68 pages
...Florimell, the vertuousnes of Belphoebe, the lasciviousnes of Hellenora, and many the like. 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. So, humbly... | |
 | Susan H. Oldfield - 1901 - 430 pages
...much. Spenser, in sending the " Fairy Queen " to Sir Walter Raleigh, says : " Thus much, Sir, I have briefly overrun to direct your understanding to the...which otherwise may haply seem tedious and confused." Delicious passage ! and how I wish half the writers of the day would learn to "gripe their discourses... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1912 - 1214 pages
...told so much of what its readers could have found in the whole work as was necessary to direct their ll not let me l handfull gripe at the discourse." He gave the clue into our hands, and then left us to find our own... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - Authors, English - 1902 - 800 pages
...many the like. Thus much, Sir, I have brieJJy 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. So, humbly... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English language - 1903 - 400 pages
...concludes with : " Thus much, Sir, I have briefly overrone to direct your understanding to the welhead of the history ; that, from thence gathering the whole...handful gripe all the discourse, which otherwise may happily [haply] seem tedious and confused." It must be admitted that to many readers this classic allegory... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English language - 1903 - 394 pages
...concludes with: " Thus much, Sir, I have briefly overrone to direct your understanding to the welhead of the history; that, from thence gathering the whole...handful gripe all the discourse, which otherwise may happily [haply] seem tedious and confused." It must be admitted that to many readers this classic allegory... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1903 - 312 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... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - Epic poetry, English - 1905 - 266 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 seeme tedious and confused. So, humbly... | |
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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.... 
