The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: With the Life of the Author and the Critical Remarks of Hughes, Spence, Warton, Upton, and Hurd, Band 9Cadell and Davies ... and Samuel Bagster, 1807 |
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... never to be absurd . Most of the Allego ries in the Faerie Queene are agreeable to this rule ; but in one of his other poems the Author has manifestly transgressed it ; the poem I mean is that which is called Prothalamion . In this the ...
... never to be absurd . Most of the Allego ries in the Faerie Queene are agreeable to this rule ; but in one of his other poems the Author has manifestly transgressed it ; the poem I mean is that which is called Prothalamion . In this the ...
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... never designed it by those rules , I think it ought rather to be considered as a poem of a particular kind , describing , in a series of Alle- gorical adventures or episodes , the most noted virtues and vices . To compare it , therefore ...
... never designed it by those rules , I think it ought rather to be considered as a poem of a particular kind , describing , in a series of Alle- gorical adventures or episodes , the most noted virtues and vices . To compare it , therefore ...
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... never supposed to be perfect , has always been allowed to be ad- mirable . The first is , that the scene is laid in Fairy Land , and the chief actors are Fairies . The reader may see their imaginary race and history in Book II . at the ...
... never supposed to be perfect , has always been allowed to be ad- mirable . The first is , that the scene is laid in Fairy Land , and the chief actors are Fairies . The reader may see their imaginary race and history in Book II . at the ...
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... never peep , • His dwelling is . ' Mr. Rymer , as I remember , has , by way of comparison , collected from most of the ancient and modern poets the finest descriptions of the " Night , among all which he gives the preference to the ...
... never peep , • His dwelling is . ' Mr. Rymer , as I remember , has , by way of comparison , collected from most of the ancient and modern poets the finest descriptions of the " Night , among all which he gives the preference to the ...
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... never cease to bay ; ' As giving warning of th ' unwonted sound , With which her yron wheeles did them affray , And her darke griesly looke them much dismay . The messenger of death , the ghastly owle , With drery shriekes did also her ...
... never cease to bay ; ' As giving warning of th ' unwonted sound , With which her yron wheeles did them affray , And her darke griesly looke them much dismay . The messenger of death , the ghastly owle , With drery shriekes did also her ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
action adventures Æneas Allegory ancient Androgeus appear Archimago Ariosto arms beast beauties Book called Canto castle character Chaucer chivalry classick court criticks death delight DENHAM doth enchantments English epick poem ev'ry eyes fable Faerie Queene Fairy Land falconry fall fame fancy fate fear fiction fire friends give gods Gothick hand hath Henry VII hero Homer honour Hughes Iliad images imagination imitation invention Italian kind king Arthur knights lady learned manner mind moral Morte d'Arthur Nature noble numbers Orlando Furioso pleasure poet poetical poetry pow'r Prince Arthur Pyrrhus QUESTING BEAST reader reason reign rhyme romance romantick round table Scipio seems sense sometimes speak Spenser stanza story supposed Talus Tasso taste thee things thou thought thro tion translated Troy truth Upton Uther Pendragon verse Virgil virtues WARTON wise words writing youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite v - And hate for arts that caused himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike; Alike...
Seite 135 - And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication : and upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
Seite 135 - And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held : and they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth...
Seite 5 - The mower's hopes nor mock the ploughman's toil, But God-like his unwearied bounty flows, First loves to do, then loves the good he does. Nor are his blessings to his banks...
Seite ix - Horace his wit and Virgil's state He did not steal, but emulate! And when he would like them appear, Their garb, but not their clothes, did wear.
Seite 84 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran Nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain, Both where the morning sun first warmly smote The open field, and where the unpierced shade Imbrown'd the noontide bowers. Thus was this place A happy rural seat of various view...
Seite 136 - In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
Seite 12 - Three kingdoms' wonder, and three kingdoms' fear. While single he stood forth, and seem'd, although Each had an army, as an equal foe ; Such was his force of eloquence to make The hearers more concern'd than he that spake : Each seem'd to act that part he came to see, And none was more a looker-on than he ; So did he move our passions, some were known To wish, for the defence, the crime their own. Now private pity strove with public hate, Reason with rage, and eloquence with fate.
Seite 14 - Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That owned the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous horse of brass, On which the Tartar king did ride...
Seite 65 - ... poesie is of so subtle a spirit, that in pouring out of one language into another, it will all evaporate; and if a new spirit" be not added in the transfusion, there will remain nothing but a caput mortuum...