The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: In Five Volumes, Volume 1Little, 1848 |
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... Lord Grey , on his being appointed lord lieutenant ; and on that nobleman being recalled in 1582 , the poet returned with him to England . Spenser , in June , 1586 , received a grant of 3028 acres of the forfeited lands of the Earl of ...
... Lord Grey , on his being appointed lord lieutenant ; and on that nobleman being recalled in 1582 , the poet returned with him to England . Spenser , in June , 1586 , received a grant of 3028 acres of the forfeited lands of the Earl of ...
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... Lord Grey . In savadge soyle . " In February , 1590–1 , Queen Elizabeth granted him a pension of fifty pounds a year ; from which circumstance he has sometimes been termed poet laureate , although he was never formally in- vested with ...
... Lord Grey . In savadge soyle . " In February , 1590–1 , Queen Elizabeth granted him a pension of fifty pounds a year ; from which circumstance he has sometimes been termed poet laureate , although he was never formally in- vested with ...
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... Lord Howard , and the wife of Arthur Gorges , Esquire . This lady is first lamented under the figure of a white lioness , ( the white lion being one of the sup- porters on the armorial bearings of the Howard family , ) and then under ...
... Lord Howard , and the wife of Arthur Gorges , Esquire . This lady is first lamented under the figure of a white lioness , ( the white lion being one of the sup- porters on the armorial bearings of the Howard family , ) and then under ...
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... Lord Treasurer Burleigh bore an unfriendly disposition to the poet , and that he on one occasion obstructed the queen's bounty to him . In order to account for this feeling , the following nervous lines in " Mother Hubberds Tale , " on ...
... Lord Treasurer Burleigh bore an unfriendly disposition to the poet , and that he on one occasion obstructed the queen's bounty to him . In order to account for this feeling , the following nervous lines in " Mother Hubberds Tale , " on ...
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... Lord Treasurer : - " For he , that now welds all things at his will , Scorns th ' one and th ' other in his deeper skill . O griefe of griefes ! O gall of all good heartes ! To see that vertue should dispised bee Of him , that first was ...
... Lord Treasurer : - " For he , that now welds all things at his will , Scorns th ' one and th ' other in his deeper skill . O griefe of griefes ! O gall of all good heartes ! To see that vertue should dispised bee Of him , that first was ...
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