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Lives of illustrious ... Irishmen, ed. by J. Wills - Page 295
by Irishman - 1840
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The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Edmund Spenser: The faerie queene ...

Edmund Spenser - 1882 - 358 pages
...Thus much Sir, I haue briefly ouerronne to direct your vnderftanding to the wel-head of the Hiftory, that from - thence gathering the whole intention of the conceit, ye may as in a handfull gripe al tl1e difcourfe, which otherwife may happily feeme tedious and confufed. So humbly...
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Book I of The Faery Queene

Edmund Spenser - 1883 - 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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The World's Cyclopedia of Biography, Volume 1

Biography - 1883 - 778 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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English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature, Volume 9

Henry Morley - English literature - 1892 - 484 pages
...told of what its readers could have found in the whole work so much 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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Spenser: Book I of the Faery Queene Edited, Volume 1

Edmund Spenser - 1892 - 304 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 Faerie Queene: Book I, Volume 1

Edmund Spenser - Epic poetry, English - 1893 - 426 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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English Men of Letters, Volume 7

John Morley - Authors, English - 1894 - 624 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 Jhe discourse, which otherwise may happily seeme tedious and confused." According...
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English Men of Letters: Chaucer, by Adolphus William Ward, 1896; Spenser, by ...

1895 - 610 pages
...concluding 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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Spenser's Britomart: From Books III, IV, and V of the Faery Queene

Edmund Spenser - 1896 - 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...
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Spenser's Britomart: From Books III, IV, and V of the Faery Queene

Edmund Spenser - 1896 - 316 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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