The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: With the Life of the Author and the Critical Remarks of Hughes, Spence, Warton, Upton, and Hurd, Nide 9Cadell and Davies ... and Samuel Bagster, 1807 |
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Sivu 6
... Spenser writes to more than any one , and the season of youth being the most susceptible of the impression . It will not seem strange , therefore , that Cowley , as himself tells us , first caught his flame by 6 MR . HUGHES'S ESSAY.
... Spenser writes to more than any one , and the season of youth being the most susceptible of the impression . It will not seem strange , therefore , that Cowley , as himself tells us , first caught his flame by 6 MR . HUGHES'S ESSAY.
Sivu 7
... tells us , first caught his flame by reading Spenser ; that our great Milton owned him for his original , as Mr. Dryden assures us ; and that Dryden studied him , and has bestowed more frequent commendations on him than on any other ...
... tells us , first caught his flame by reading Spenser ; that our great Milton owned him for his original , as Mr. Dryden assures us ; and that Dryden studied him , and has bestowed more frequent commendations on him than on any other ...
Sivu 20
... telling sad tidings : ' Whiles sad Celeno , sitting on a clifte , ' A song of bale and bitter sorrow sings , " That hart of flint asonder could have rifte ; ' Which having ended after him she flyeth swifte . * All these before the gates ...
... telling sad tidings : ' Whiles sad Celeno , sitting on a clifte , ' A song of bale and bitter sorrow sings , " That hart of flint asonder could have rifte ; ' Which having ended after him she flyeth swifte . * All these before the gates ...
Sivu 25
... tells us that the Christian army represents man ; the city of Jerusalem , civil happiness ; Godfrey , the understanding ; Rinaldo and Tancred , the other powers of the soul ; and that the body is typified by the common soldiers ; with a ...
... tells us that the Christian army represents man ; the city of Jerusalem , civil happiness ; Godfrey , the understanding ; Rinaldo and Tancred , the other powers of the soul ; and that the body is typified by the common soldiers ; with a ...
Sivu 62
... tells you , wanted but very little of being three furlongs in length ; the blood , that gushes from his wound , is enough to drive a water - mill ; and his roar , is like that of a hun dred hungry lyons , B. i . xi . st . 11 , 22 , 37 ...
... tells you , wanted but very little of being three furlongs in length ; the blood , that gushes from his wound , is enough to drive a water - mill ; and his roar , is like that of a hun dred hungry lyons , B. i . xi . st . 11 , 22 , 37 ...
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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
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Sivu 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...
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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...
Sivu 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...
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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...
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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...
Sivu 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...