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Page xxxviii
... light , and made surprising by the fiction under which it is exhibited . I have thought it sufficient to touch upon such properties only as seem to be the most es- sential , and perhaps many more might be reduced under one or other of ...
... light , and made surprising by the fiction under which it is exhibited . I have thought it sufficient to touch upon such properties only as seem to be the most es- sential , and perhaps many more might be reduced under one or other of ...
Page xxxix
... light by latter ages . With us the art of framing fables , apologues , and allegories , which was so frequent among the writers of antiquity , seems to be , like the art of painting upon glass , but little practised , and in a great mea ...
... light by latter ages . With us the art of framing fables , apologues , and allegories , which was so frequent among the writers of antiquity , seems to be , like the art of painting upon glass , but little practised , and in a great mea ...
Page lxiii
... light which glanced upon them from the Knight's armour , incline one to think that our great Milton had it in his eye when he wrote his famous episode of Sin and Death . The artifices of Archi → mago and Duessa , to separate the ...
... light which glanced upon them from the Knight's armour , incline one to think that our great Milton had it in his eye when he wrote his famous episode of Sin and Death . The artifices of Archi → mago and Duessa , to separate the ...
Page lxxi
... light which is let into this place , top obat W Such as a lamp , whose life doth fade away ; Or or as the moon , cloathed with cloudy night . the smokiness of it , and the slaves of Mammon working at an hundred furnaces , are all ...
... light which is let into this place , top obat W Such as a lamp , whose life doth fade away ; Or or as the moon , cloathed with cloudy night . the smokiness of it , and the slaves of Mammon working at an hundred furnaces , are all ...
Page lxxxvi
... light and pleasant railleries or contentions of shepherds a- bout their flocks , their mistresses , or their skill in piping and singing . I cannot wholly justify my Author in this ; yet must say , that the excellency of the moral in ...
... light and pleasant railleries or contentions of shepherds a- bout their flocks , their mistresses , or their skill in piping and singing . I cannot wholly justify my Author in this ; yet must say , that the excellency of the moral in ...
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১১ ১৯ Allegory Archimago armes beast beauty behold blood brest brought CANTO chaunce chaunst corage courser cruell dame deadly deare death devize doth dread dreadfull EDMUND SPENSER Elfin Knight enimy eternall fable Faery knight FAERY QUEENE faire faire lady Fairy false Duessa fast fayre feare feeble flowre fowle fownd gentle goodly grace griefe grone Guyon hand hart hast hath heaven heavenly hight himselfe honourable ioyous lady light Lord mightie Muse never nigh noble nought poem poets powre prince proud quoth rage Red-crosse knight seemd seems selfe sence Shee shew shield shyning sight Sir Philip Sidney Sith sonne sore speach Spenser spide spright staind steed straunge suddein sunne sweet syre thee thou traveiled trew unto vaine verse vertues wandring warre wearie weene whenas wize wondrous wonne wont wound wretched wyde yron