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Page xliii
... Queene to combine something of Ariosto's exuberance with the poetic temper of Tasso . The passion for dignified and ... Queene , and , ravished by her beauty , resolves to seek her out in faery land ; the adventures that befall him on ...
... Queene to combine something of Ariosto's exuberance with the poetic temper of Tasso . The passion for dignified and ... Queene , and , ravished by her beauty , resolves to seek her out in faery land ; the adventures that befall him on ...
Page 407
... Queene , being a continued such , me seeme , should be satisfide with the use of Allegory , or darke conceit , I have thought good these dayes , seeing all things accounted by their aswell for auoyding of gealous opinions and mis ...
... Queene , being a continued such , me seeme , should be satisfide with the use of Allegory , or darke conceit , I have thought good these dayes , seeing all things accounted by their aswell for auoyding of gealous opinions and mis ...
Page 409
... Queene : At whose approch the soule of Petrarke wept , brings , | And from thenceforth those graces were not seene . For they this Queene attended , in whose steed Obliuion laid him downe on Lauras herse : Hereat the hardest stones were ...
... Queene : At whose approch the soule of Petrarke wept , brings , | And from thenceforth those graces were not seene . For they this Queene attended , in whose steed Obliuion laid him downe on Lauras herse : Hereat the hardest stones were ...
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INTRODUCTION BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL | x |
BOOK THE LEGENDE OF THE KNIGHT OF THE RED CROSSE OR | xliv |
THE LEGEND OF SIR GVYON OR OF TEMPERAVNCE | 140 |
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