The Poetical Works of Edmund SpenserH. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1926 - 736 pages |
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Page xxviii
... dead ; but to that most heroick spirit ' he pays homage in a sonnet to his sister the Countess of Pembroke . He concludes with addresses to his cousin Lady Carey , and ' to all the gratious and beautiful Ladies in the Court . ' The ...
... dead ; but to that most heroick spirit ' he pays homage in a sonnet to his sister the Countess of Pembroke . He concludes with addresses to his cousin Lady Carey , and ' to all the gratious and beautiful Ladies in the Court . ' The ...
Page xxix
... dead or out of favour , did not mark him as the likely recipient of worldly honours . Rather more than a year after his great poem had appeared he received a pension of fifty pounds a year , and with this he had to rest content . His ...
... dead or out of favour , did not mark him as the likely recipient of worldly honours . Rather more than a year after his great poem had appeared he received a pension of fifty pounds a year , and with this he had to rest content . His ...
Page xxxiii
... dead upbraids his deeds ( 197-224 ) ; and in his tribute to Sidney's memory ( 281-343 ) his verse takes on that peculiarly haunting melody in which he is wont to voice an intimate emotion . Muiopotmos was written in 1590 ; it seems to ...
... dead upbraids his deeds ( 197-224 ) ; and in his tribute to Sidney's memory ( 281-343 ) his verse takes on that peculiarly haunting melody in which he is wont to voice an intimate emotion . Muiopotmos was written in 1590 ; it seems to ...
Page 4
... dead as liuing euer him ador'd : Vpon his shield the like was also scor'd , For soueraine hope , which in his helpe he had : Right faithfull true he was in deede and word , But of his cheere did seeme too solemne sad ; Yet nothing did ...
... dead as liuing euer him ador'd : Vpon his shield the like was also scor'd , For soueraine hope , which in his helpe he had : Right faithfull true he was in deede and word , But of his cheere did seeme too solemne sad ; Yet nothing did ...
Page 11
... Dead long ygoe I wote thou haddest bin , Had not that charme from thee forwarned it : But yet I warne thee now assured sitt , And hide thy head . Therewith vpon his crest With rigour so outrageous he smitt , That a large share it hewd ...
... Dead long ygoe I wote thou haddest bin , Had not that charme from thee forwarned it : But yet I warne thee now assured sitt , And hide thy head . Therewith vpon his crest With rigour so outrageous he smitt , That a large share it hewd ...
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