 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - American literature - 1919 - 712 pages
...many the like. Thus much, Sir, I have briefly overronne to direct your understanding to the welhead e glories, in th' ethereal plain, The sun first rises o'er the purpled main, handfull gripe al the discourse, 'which otherwise may happily seeme tedious and confused. So, humbly... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1923 - 238 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... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 498 pages
...many the like. Thus much, Sir, 1 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... | |
 | John Huntington - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 218 pages
...Chapman he worries that his reader may not understand him and writes a prefatory letter so that Ralegh "may as in a handful gripe all the discourse which otherwise may happily seem tedious and confused."1 ' Though he calls his "continued Allegory" a "darke conceit" and... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 562 pages
...manythe 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.... 
