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Lives of illustrious ... Irishmen, ed. by J. Wills - Page 295
by Irishman - 1840
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Book 1 of the Faery Queene

Edmund Spenser - 1875 - 292 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...
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The poetical works of Edmund Spenser. With mem. and critical ..., Volumes 1-2

Edmund Spenser - 1876 - 838 pages
...virtuousness of Belphrebe, 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 favour towards...
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Cassell's library of English literature, selected, ed ..., Volume 4; Volume 80

Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 pages
...many the like. Thus much, Sir, I have briefly overronne to direct your understanding to the wcl-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 seemo tedious and confused. So, humbly...
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Works of Edmund Spenser

Edmund Spenser - 1877 - 638 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...
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A Manual of English Literature

Henry Morley - English literature - 1879 - 720 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 al the discourse." He gave the clew into our hands, and then left us to find our own...
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Spenser

Richard William Church - Novelists, English - 1879 - 202 pages
...paragraph. " 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." According...
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Acme Library of Standard Biography: Second Series

Authors, English - 1880 - 566 pages
...paragraph. "Thus much, Sir, I have briefly overronne tt1 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 'U *J?t discourse, which otherwise may happily seeme tedious and confused. According...
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A Manual of English Literature

Henry Morley - English literature - 1879 - 720 pages
...in the whole work as was necessary to direct their understanding to the well-head of the histoiy, " that from thence gathering the whole intention of the conceit, ye may as in a handfull gripe al the discourse." He gave the clew into our hands, and then left us to find our own...
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Spenser: Book I of the Faery Queene

Edmund Spenser - 1881 - 298 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...
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Book I of the Faery Queene

Edmund Spenser - 1881 - 298 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...
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