The Poetical Works of Edmund SpenserHenry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1916 - 736 pages |
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... gentle discipline . ' Weighty critics , amongst whom we must reckon Spence in the eighteenth century and Courthope in our own time , have suggested that Spenser read Ariosto in complete ignorance of his deep vein of irony , and that he ...
... gentle discipline . ' Weighty critics , amongst whom we must reckon Spence in the eighteenth century and Courthope in our own time , have suggested that Spenser read Ariosto in complete ignorance of his deep vein of irony , and that he ...
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... gentle deeds ; Whose prayses hauing slept in silence long , Me , all too meane , the sacred Muse areeds To blazon broad emongst her learned throng : Fierce warres and faithfull loues shall moralize my song . 2 Helpe then , O holy Virgin ...
... gentle deeds ; Whose prayses hauing slept in silence long , Me , all too meane , the sacred Muse areeds To blazon broad emongst her learned throng : Fierce warres and faithfull loues shall moralize my song . 2 Helpe then , O holy Virgin ...
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... gentle Sleepe . By them the Sprite doth passe in quietly , And vnto Morpheus comes , whom drowned deepe [ keepe . So liuely , and so like in all mens sight , That weaker sence it could haue rauisht quight : The maker selfe for all his ...
... gentle Sleepe . By them the Sprite doth passe in quietly , And vnto Morpheus comes , whom drowned deepe [ keepe . So liuely , and so like in all mens sight , That weaker sence it could haue rauisht quight : The maker selfe for all his ...
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... gentle ruth , Both for her noble bloud , and for her tender youth . 51 And said , Ah Sir , my liege Lord and my loue , Shall I accuse the hidden cruell fate , And mightie causes wrought in heauen aboue , Or the blind God , that doth me ...
... gentle ruth , Both for her noble bloud , and for her tender youth . 51 And said , Ah Sir , my liege Lord and my loue , Shall I accuse the hidden cruell fate , And mightie causes wrought in heauen aboue , Or the blind God , that doth me ...
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... gentle Hynd , the which the louely boy Did loue as life , aboue all worldly blisse ; For griefe whereof the lad n'ould after ioy , But pynd away in anguish and selfe - wild annoy . 18 The wooddy Nymphes , faire Hamadryades Her to behold ...
... gentle Hynd , the which the louely boy Did loue as life , aboue all worldly blisse ; For griefe whereof the lad n'ould after ioy , But pynd away in anguish and selfe - wild annoy . 18 The wooddy Nymphes , faire Hamadryades Her to behold ...
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