The Poetical Works of Edmund SpenserH. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1926 - 736 pages |
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Page xvi
... fortune it has brought him , and Piers , enthusiastic both for art and for his friend's achievements in it . Whether the characters are meant to portray actual persons has been disputed ; but it is clear enough that they prefigure two ...
... fortune it has brought him , and Piers , enthusiastic both for art and for his friend's achievements in it . Whether the characters are meant to portray actual persons has been disputed ; but it is clear enough that they prefigure two ...
Page xxii
... fortune . Harvey's reply was evidently written with the object of cooling his young friend's ardour . He is a little doubtful of the progress that Spenser is making , and is unkind enough to question whether he will go abroad at all ...
... fortune . Harvey's reply was evidently written with the object of cooling his young friend's ardour . He is a little doubtful of the progress that Spenser is making , and is unkind enough to question whether he will go abroad at all ...
Page xxx
... fortune then I would inquire . And leauing home , to roiall court I sought ; Where I did sell my selfe for yearely hire , And in the Princes gardin daily wrought : There I beheld such vaineness as I neuer thought . With sight whereof ...
... fortune then I would inquire . And leauing home , to roiall court I sought ; Where I did sell my selfe for yearely hire , And in the Princes gardin daily wrought : There I beheld such vaineness as I neuer thought . With sight whereof ...
Page 9
... fortune and frayle worldly feares , Fly to your faith for succour and sure ayde : Let me not dye in languor and long teares . Why Dame ( quoth he ) what hath ye thus dismayd ? What frayes ye , that were wont to comfort me affrayd ? 53 ...
... fortune and frayle worldly feares , Fly to your faith for succour and sure ayde : Let me not dye in languor and long teares . Why Dame ( quoth he ) what hath ye thus dismayd ? What frayes ye , that were wont to comfort me affrayd ? 53 ...
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... fortune false betraide me to your powre Was , ( O what now auaileth that I was ! ) Borne the sole daughter of an Emperour , He that the wide West vnder his rule has , And high hath set his throne , where Tiberis doth pas . 23 He in the ...
... fortune false betraide me to your powre Was , ( O what now auaileth that I was ! ) Borne the sole daughter of an Emperour , He that the wide West vnder his rule has , And high hath set his throne , where Tiberis doth pas . 23 He in the ...
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