The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 1Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1855 |
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... mind , are too unsubstan- tial machinery for a poet ; -yet we all know how well the author of the Pilgrim's Progress ( and he was a poet though he wrote in prose ) has managed such abstractions as Mercy and Fortitude . In his artless ...
... mind , are too unsubstan- tial machinery for a poet ; -yet we all know how well the author of the Pilgrim's Progress ( and he was a poet though he wrote in prose ) has managed such abstractions as Mercy and Fortitude . In his artless ...
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... mind The flowre of chevalry , now bloosming faire , Doth promise fruite worthy the noble kind Which of their praises have left you the haire , you this humble present I prepare , Το For love of vertue and of martiall praise ; To which ...
... mind The flowre of chevalry , now bloosming faire , Doth promise fruite worthy the noble kind Which of their praises have left you the haire , you this humble present I prepare , Το For love of vertue and of martiall praise ; To which ...
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... mind his pourtraiture alive , How fayre he was , and yet not fayre to this ; And how he slew with glauncing dart amisse A gentle hynd , the which the lovely boy Did love as life , above all worldly blisse : For griefe whereof the lad n ...
... mind his pourtraiture alive , How fayre he was , and yet not fayre to this ; And how he slew with glauncing dart amisse A gentle hynd , the which the lovely boy Did love as life , above all worldly blisse : For griefe whereof the lad n ...
Contents
VOL | vii |
A Letter of the Authors | 5 |
Verses addressed to the Author | 11 |
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