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We who live in the days of writing by rule , are apt to try every composition by
those laws which we have been taught to think the sole criterion of excellence .
Critical taste is universally diffused , and we require the same order and design
which ...
We who live in the days of writing by rule , are apt to try every composition by
those laws which we have been taught to think the sole criterion of excellence .
Critical taste is universally diffused , and we require the same order and design
which ...
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-These whose names appear In marble pure , did never live as yet , But long time
hence , after six hundred yeare , To their great praise in princely throne shall sit ;
Merlin the English prophet plast them here , In Arthur's time.HARRINGTON .
-These whose names appear In marble pure , did never live as yet , But long time
hence , after six hundred yeare , To their great praise in princely throne shall sit ;
Merlin the English prophet plast them here , In Arthur's time.HARRINGTON .
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In that same garden all the goodly flowres Wherewith dame Nature doth her
beautifie , Are fetcht ; there is the first seminarie Of all things that are born to live
and die . In his particular description of this garden , * Ad Calc . Pembroke's
Arcarlia ...
In that same garden all the goodly flowres Wherewith dame Nature doth her
beautifie , Are fetcht ; there is the first seminarie Of all things that are born to live
and die . In his particular description of this garden , * Ad Calc . Pembroke's
Arcarlia ...
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He has placed Cupid and Psyche in this garden , where they live together in ,
Stedfast love , and happy state . st , 50 , But Apuleius represents this happy state
of Cupid and Psyche , to have commenced after their reception into heaven .
He has placed Cupid and Psyche in this garden , where they live together in ,
Stedfast love , and happy state . st , 50 , But Apuleius represents this happy state
of Cupid and Psyche , to have commenced after their reception into heaven .
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Then said the judge , Yet good , my friend , Let me of you desire , To take the
flesh from such a place As yet you let him live ; Doe so , and loe an hundred
crownes To thee here I will give . No , no , quoth he , & c . * For I will have my
pound of ...
Then said the judge , Yet good , my friend , Let me of you desire , To take the
flesh from such a place As yet you let him live ; Doe so , and loe an hundred
crownes To thee here I will give . No , no , quoth he , & c . * For I will have my
pound of ...
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Página 342 - Through the dear might of Him that walked the waves, Where other groves and other streams along, With nectar pure his oozy locks he laves, And hears the unexpressive nuptial song In the blest kingdoms meek of joy and love. There entertain him all the Saints above, In solemn troops, and sweet societies, That sing, and singing in their glory move, And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes.
Página 23 - 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...
Página 72 - ... blind harpers or such like taverne minstrels that give a fit of mirth for a groat, and their matters being for the most part stories of old time, as the tale of sir Topas, the reportes of Bevis of Southampton, Guy of Warwicke, Adam Bell, and Clymme of the Clough, and such other old romances or historicall rimes, made purposely for recreation of the common people at christmasse diners and brideales, and in tavernes and alehouses, and such other places of base resort.
Página 350 - Such forces met not, nor so wide a camp, When Agrican, with all his northern powers, Besieged Albracca, as romances tell, The city...
Página 203 - Lookte on them lovely, still in stedfast state, Ne suffred storme nor frost on them to fall, Their tender buds or leaves to violate, Nor scorching heat, nor cold intemperate, T...
Página 302 - AND I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
Página 21 - But it is absurd to think of judging either Ariosto or Spenser by precepts which they did not attend to.
Página 113 - Therefore a God him sage Antiquity Did wisely make, and good Agdistes call ; But this same was to that quite contrary, The foe of life, that good...
Página 190 - The Laurell, meed of mightie Conquerours And Poets sage, the firre that weepeth still, The Willow worne of forlorne Paramours, The Eugh...
Página 344 - I shall detain you now no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct you to a hillside, where I will point you out the right path of a virtuous and noble education ; laborious, indeed, at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
Información bibliográfica
| Título | Observations on the Fairy Queen of Spenser, Volumen1 Observations on the Fairy Queen of Spenser, Thomas Warton |
| Autor | Thomas Warton |
| Editor | C. Stower, 1807 |
| Procedencia del original | Biblioteca Pública de Nueva York |
| Digitalizado | 16 Nov. 2006 |
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