The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: In Five Volumes, Volume 1Little, 1848 |
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Page xvii
... gentle stream , the which them pare , Seem'd foule to them , and bad his billowes spare To wet their silken feathers . " The same year was distinguished by the appearance of the second part of " The Faerie Queene , " consisting of three ...
... gentle stream , the which them pare , Seem'd foule to them , and bad his billowes spare To wet their silken feathers . " The same year was distinguished by the appearance of the second part of " The Faerie Queene , " consisting of three ...
Page xxii
... gentle discipline . " This was a noble design ; but whether , at this period , an uninterrupted series of knightly adventures was calculated to effect it , may be disputed . The poet thus proceeds in the explanation of his plan ...
... gentle discipline . " This was a noble design ; but whether , at this period , an uninterrupted series of knightly adventures was calculated to effect it , may be disputed . The poet thus proceeds in the explanation of his plan ...
Page xxviii
... gentle warbling wind low answered to all . " B. II . , c . XII . , s . LXXI . But the reader can hardly open any one of the books without meeting with subjects for admiration , especially in the First and Second : the Fourth Book , the ...
... gentle warbling wind low answered to all . " B. II . , c . XII . , s . LXXI . But the reader can hardly open any one of the books without meeting with subjects for admiration , especially in the First and Second : the Fourth Book , the ...
Page xxix
... gentle philosophy , " as Ben Jonson expresses it , " which leads on and guides us by the hand to action , with a ravishing delight and incredible sweetness , " such dark conceits are better avoided ; unless indeed the truths to be ...
... gentle philosophy , " as Ben Jonson expresses it , " which leads on and guides us by the hand to action , with a ravishing delight and incredible sweetness , " such dark conceits are better avoided ; unless indeed the truths to be ...
Page xli
... gentle serenity of her temper , would have made her insipid in the hands of an inferior artist ; but what we see in her is the repose of heaven , and not the apathy of earth ; and the tranquillity of the stream comes from its depth ...
... gentle serenity of her temper , would have made her insipid in the hands of an inferior artist ; but what we see in her is the repose of heaven , and not the apathy of earth ; and the tranquillity of the stream comes from its depth ...
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