The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Band 1C. C. Little and J. Brown, 1839 |
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... nature ever produced , or genius ever dreamed of , might with perfect consistency be placed within its limits . In choosing such a scene , therefore , Spenser in some measure consulted the bent of his naturc . Having determined to lay ...
... nature ever produced , or genius ever dreamed of , might with perfect consistency be placed within its limits . In choosing such a scene , therefore , Spenser in some measure consulted the bent of his naturc . Having determined to lay ...
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... nature of the subject with the classical notion of unity , and adopting twelve actors , each perfect in one of the twelve virtues , and one principal character partaking in the whole of them , he has incurred the charge of a want of ...
... nature of the subject with the classical notion of unity , and adopting twelve actors , each perfect in one of the twelve virtues , and one principal character partaking in the whole of them , he has incurred the charge of a want of ...
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... nature that can delight the senses , described in versification of the most finished elegance — of the most “ dulcet and harmonious music . ” What the poet says of this enchanting spot may with propriety be applied to his own ...
... nature that can delight the senses , described in versification of the most finished elegance — of the most “ dulcet and harmonious music . ” What the poet says of this enchanting spot may with propriety be applied to his own ...
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... nature of the poem : occupied with a real and an allegorical nature , his attention was necessarily divided ; being continually reminded of the propriety of a consistent delineation of alle- gorical character , he was probably ...
... nature of the poem : occupied with a real and an allegorical nature , his attention was necessarily divided ; being continually reminded of the propriety of a consistent delineation of alle- gorical character , he was probably ...
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... nature is one of spotless excellence , and the misfortunes which she endures are never brought about by any misconduct , or even mistake , of her own . But the red - cross knight is not without the human element of imper- fection ...
... nature is one of spotless excellence , and the misfortunes which she endures are never brought about by any misconduct , or even mistake , of her own . But the red - cross knight is not without the human element of imper- fection ...
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Seite xxxii - The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: Thou maintainest my lot. The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.
Seite 42 - He, making speedy way through spersed ayre, And through the world of waters wide and deepe, To Morpheus house doth hastily repaire. Amid the bowels of the earth full steepe, And low, where dawning day doth never peepe, His dwelling is ; there Tethys his wet bed Doth ever wash, and Cynthia still doth steepe In silver deaw his ever-drouping hed, Whiles sad Night over him her mantle black doth spred.
Seite 32 - Joying to heare the birdes sweete harmony, Which, therein shrouded from the tempest dred, Seemd in their song to scorne the cruell sky. Much can they praise the trees so straight and hy, The sayling Pine...
Seite 3 - The generall end, therefore, of all the booke, is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline...
Seite 30 - A lovely Ladie rode him faire beside, Upon a lowly Asse more white then snow. Yet she much whiter ; but the same did hide Under a vele, that wimpled...
Seite xlix - THREE years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, 'A lovelier flower On earth was never sown ! This child I to myself will take ; She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own. 'Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse ; and with me The girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain.
Seite xxxiii - If music and sweet poetry agree, As they must needs, the sister and the brother, Then must the love be great 'twixt thee and me, Because thou lov'st the one, and I the other. Dowland to thee is dear, whose heavenly touch Upon the lute doth ravish human sense ; Spenser to me, whose deep conceit is such, As, passing all conceit, needs no defence.
Seite xviii - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tride, What hell it is, in suing long to bide : To loose good dayes, that might be better spent; To wast long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow...
Seite 4 - Arthure, before he was king, the image of a brave Knight, perfected in the twelve private Morall Vertues, as Aristotle hath devised...
Seite 40 - the way to win Is wisely to advise: now day is spent; Therefore with me ye may take up your In For this same night.