The Poetical Works of Edmund SpenserHenry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1916 - 736 pages |
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Page xii
... delights of falling under other spells . The cautious Harvey had soon reason to warn him of the seductions of ... delight and intimate expression in Arcadia , had much akin with the poet of the Faerie Queene . In judgements upon ...
... delights of falling under other spells . The cautious Harvey had soon reason to warn him of the seductions of ... delight and intimate expression in Arcadia , had much akin with the poet of the Faerie Queene . In judgements upon ...
Page xxviii
... delight ' of his sovereign , her soldier and poet . Nor did he forget the memory of him who had first encouraged his art . Sidney was dead ; but to that most heroick spirit ' he pays homage in a sonnet to his sister the Countess of ...
... delight ' of his sovereign , her soldier and poet . Nor did he forget the memory of him who had first encouraged his art . Sidney was dead ; but to that most heroick spirit ' he pays homage in a sonnet to his sister the Countess of ...
Page xxxiv
... delight in his craft a web of verse as delicate as Arachne's . The fineness of Spenser's art is often shown in his delineation of insects ; here his butterfly is exquisitely painted ; and so lovely is the garden into which he strays ...
... delight in his craft a web of verse as delicate as Arachne's . The fineness of Spenser's art is often shown in his delineation of insects ; here his butterfly is exquisitely painted ; and so lovely is the garden into which he strays ...
Page xli
... delight in a baffling irrelevancy . The Faerie Queene , as Spenser was careful to explain , was to be a ' continued allegory or darke conceit ' , and all the elaborate interwindings of its plot were to be directed by his ethical ...
... delight in a baffling irrelevancy . The Faerie Queene , as Spenser was careful to explain , was to be a ' continued allegory or darke conceit ' , and all the elaborate interwindings of its plot were to be directed by his ethical ...
Page li
... delight in the journey is more than the promised goal . It is enough that through such hardy enterprize Many great regions are discoveréd , and if they never reach the promised El Dorado , they are content with the rich and varied spoil ...
... delight in the journey is more than the promised goal . It is enough that through such hardy enterprize Many great regions are discoveréd , and if they never reach the promised El Dorado , they are content with the rich and varied spoil ...
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