The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: With the Life of the Author and the Critical Remarks of Hughes, Spence, Warton, Upton, and Hurd, Volumen9Cadell and Davies ... and Samuel Bagster, 1807 |
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... fiction in poetry , be- cause Truth of itself is rigid and austere , and cannot be moulded into such agreeable forms ag fiction can . For neither the numbers , ' says he , nor the ranging of the words , nor the ele- ⚫vation and ...
... fiction in poetry , be- cause Truth of itself is rigid and austere , and cannot be moulded into such agreeable forms ag fiction can . For neither the numbers , ' says he , nor the ranging of the words , nor the ele- ⚫vation and ...
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... fiction . ' The same author makes use of a comparison , in another place , which I think may be most properly ap ... fictions of the poets there are ' couched many useful morals and doctrines . ' It is for this reason , that is to say ...
... fiction . ' The same author makes use of a comparison , in another place , which I think may be most properly ap ... fictions of the poets there are ' couched many useful morals and doctrines . ' It is for this reason , that is to say ...
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... fictions of the last kind I have mentioned . The person of the goddess is likewise fictitious , and out of the circle of the Grecian divinities ; and the adven- tures are not to be understood but in a mystical sense . The episode of ...
... fictions of the last kind I have mentioned . The person of the goddess is likewise fictitious , and out of the circle of the Grecian divinities ; and the adven- tures are not to be understood but in a mystical sense . The episode of ...
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... fiction ; but his giving speech to the river Xanthus is not so , nor ought it to be reckoned more marvellous than his making Jupiter and Juno speak for Xanthus was not the water , the river , but the god of the river , as Neptune is the ...
... fiction ; but his giving speech to the river Xanthus is not so , nor ought it to be reckoned more marvellous than his making Jupiter and Juno speak for Xanthus was not the water , the river , but the god of the river , as Neptune is the ...
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... fiction of the poet , is supposed to have produced such extraordinary effects . As Allegory sometimes , for the sake of the moral sense couched under its fictions , gives speech to brutes , and sometimes introduces crea- tures which are ...
... fiction of the poet , is supposed to have produced such extraordinary effects . As Allegory sometimes , for the sake of the moral sense couched under its fictions , gives speech to brutes , and sometimes introduces crea- tures which are ...
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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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Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...