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Lives of illustrious ... Irishmen, ed. by J. Wills - Page 295
by Irishman - 1840
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Selections from Spenser's The Faerie Queene

Edmund Spenser - Knights and knighthood - 1905 - 216 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 1 seeme tedious and confused. So, humbly...
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The Arthur of the English Poets

Howard Maynadier - Arthurian romances - 1907 - 536 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 in Three Volumes: Spenser's Faerie ...

Edmund Spenser - 1909 - 544 pages
...many the like. Thus much Sir, I haue briefly ouerronne to direct your vnderstanding 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 seeme tedious and confused. So humbly...
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Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books: With Introductions and Notes

William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, Francis Bacon, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, Isaac Newton, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman - Prefaces - 1910 - 458 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 seeme tedious and confused. So humbly craving the continuance...
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Among Friends

Samuel McChord Crothers - 1910 - 306 pages
...courteously, " Thus much, sir, I have briefly overronne, to direct your understanding to the welhead 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 happily seeme tedious and confused." Let us begin...
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Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books

William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, John Knox, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, Francis Bacon, John Heminge, Henry Condell, Isaac Newton, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman, Hippolyte Taine - Literature - 1910 - 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 handfull, gripe al the discourse, which otherwise may happily seeme tedious and confused. So humbly...
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The Works of Spenser

Edmund Spenser - 1910 - 800 pages
...many the like. Thus much. Sir, J have briefly ocerronne tit direct your understanding to the uxl-head of the History; that from thence gathering the whole intention of the conceit, ye may as in a haneffull gripe al the discourse, which otherwise may happily seeine tedious and confused. So, humbly...
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Materials for a Study of Spenser's Theory of Fine Art

Ida Langdon - Aesthetics - 1911 - 212 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 seeme tedious and confused. FORM (1) Letter to Raleigh,...
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Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, Book 1

Edmund Spenser - Barcelona (Spain) - 1915 - 342 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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A Book of English Literature, Volume 1

Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 468 pages
...many the like. Thus much, Sir, I have briefly overronne, to direct your understanding to the welhead 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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