The Poetical Works of Edmund SpenserH. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1926 - 736 pages |
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Page xxi
... better judgment , not deceiv'd ' . His interjected query , why , a God's name may we not have the kingdom of our language ? 1 expressed for Spenser the vital truth upon the whole matter . 6 But full as the time was of strenuous and ...
... better judgment , not deceiv'd ' . His interjected query , why , a God's name may we not have the kingdom of our language ? 1 expressed for Spenser the vital truth upon the whole matter . 6 But full as the time was of strenuous and ...
Page xxvi
... better instruction , but also for the contentment and satisfaction of you al . For I nothing doubt , but that euery one of you will be glad to heare so profitable a discourse and thinke the time very wel spent wherin so excellent a ...
... better instruction , but also for the contentment and satisfaction of you al . For I nothing doubt , but that euery one of you will be glad to heare so profitable a discourse and thinke the time very wel spent wherin so excellent a ...
Page xxvii
... better by some mending it may receiue in the perusing , as all writings else may do by the often examination of the same . Neither let it trouble him that I so turne ouer to him againe the taske he wold haue put me to ; for it faileth ...
... better by some mending it may receiue in the perusing , as all writings else may do by the often examination of the same . Neither let it trouble him that I so turne ouer to him againe the taske he wold haue put me to ; for it faileth ...
Page xxx
... better than many poets have been . £ 50 a year may seem a meagre price for an immortal poem , but the present age can hardly be expected to pay what is , after all , the debt of posterity . More- over , it must not be forgotten that ...
... better than many poets have been . £ 50 a year may seem a meagre price for an immortal poem , but the present age can hardly be expected to pay what is , after all , the debt of posterity . More- over , it must not be forgotten that ...
Page liii
... better with Sidney . Among other corroborative details it is worth noting , as Mr. J. C. Smith points out to me , that Sir Calidore is distinguished from the other faery knights by the emphasis laid upon his prowess as a runner and a ...
... better with Sidney . Among other corroborative details it is worth noting , as Mr. J. C. Smith points out to me , that Sir Calidore is distinguished from the other faery knights by the emphasis laid upon his prowess as a runner and a ...
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