The Poetical Works of Edmund SpenserH. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1926 - 736 pages |
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... . The lines which Keats borrowed from it as a motto for his first volume : What more felicitie can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with libertie ? 1 express the spirit in which Spenser wrote it . COMPLAINTS ( 1591 ) . xxxiii.
... . The lines which Keats borrowed from it as a motto for his first volume : What more felicitie can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with libertie ? 1 express the spirit in which Spenser wrote it . COMPLAINTS ( 1591 ) . xxxiii.
Page lxiv
... fall . ( 11. xii . 68. ) a His skill in playing throughout a whole stanza with recurrent word and phrase and cadence is that of the deft juggler , who weaves in the air intricate patterns with balls of divers colours , and yet never ...
... fall . ( 11. xii . 68. ) a His skill in playing throughout a whole stanza with recurrent word and phrase and cadence is that of the deft juggler , who weaves in the air intricate patterns with balls of divers colours , and yet never ...
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... fall . There many Minstrales maken melody , To drive away the dull melancholy , And many Bardes , that to the trembling chord Can tune their timely voyces cunningly , And many Chroniclers , that can record Old loues , and warres for ...
... fall . There many Minstrales maken melody , To drive away the dull melancholy , And many Bardes , that to the trembling chord Can tune their timely voyces cunningly , And many Chroniclers , that can record Old loues , and warres for ...
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... fall ; End of the doubtfull battell deemed tho The lookers on , and lowd to him gan call The false Duessa , Thine ... falling her before on lowly knee , To her makes present of his seruice seene : Which she accepts , with thankes , and ...
... fall ; End of the doubtfull battell deemed tho The lookers on , and lowd to him gan call The false Duessa , Thine ... falling her before on lowly knee , To her makes present of his seruice seene : Which she accepts , with thankes , and ...
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... fall With Elfin sword , most shamefully betrade ? Lo where the stout Sansioy doth sleepe in deadly shade . 23 And him before , I saw with bitter eyes The bold Sansfoyshrinke vnderneath his speare ; And now the pray of fowles in field he ...
... fall With Elfin sword , most shamefully betrade ? Lo where the stout Sansioy doth sleepe in deadly shade . 23 And him before , I saw with bitter eyes The bold Sansfoyshrinke vnderneath his speare ; And now the pray of fowles in field he ...
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