OBSERVATIONS

ON

THE FAIRY QUEEN

OF

SPENSER.

BY THOMAS WARTON, A. M.

FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, AND PROFESSOR OF POEIRY IN THE
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.

A NEW EDITION.

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LONDON:

Printed by C. Stower, Paternoster-row;

FOR R. DUTTON, GRACECHURCH STREET; AND THOMAS OSTELL,

AVE-MARIA LANE.

1820.

Harvard College Library.

22 May, 1890,

From the Library of

PROF. E

SURNET.

14467.16

Section 8

of Spensers demitations of himself

Sext. IT

Mr. Uptons & pinion concernin several passages in this poem

examined

Pay

47

of Spensers Allegonial Character 71

Seet II

Contarining Mescellaneous Remarks 11/

ON

THE FAIRY QUEEN

ог

SPENSER.

SECT. VIII.

Of Spenser's Imitations of Himself.

COMMENTATORS of less taste than learning, of less discernment than ostentation, have taken infinite pains to point out, and compare those passages which their respective authors have imitated from others. This disquisition, if executed with a judicious moderation, and extended no further than to those passages which are distinguished with certain induibitable characters, and internal

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