Lectures on General Literature, Poetry, &c: Delivered at the Royal Institution in 1830 and 1831Harper & brothers, 1836 - 324 páginas |
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... Faerie Queene . " " Lo I , the man whose muse whilome did maske , As time her taught , in lowly shepheards ' weeds , Are now enforst , a farre unfitter taske , For trumpets sterne to change mine oaten reeds , And sing of knights ' and ...
... Faerie Queene . " " Lo I , the man whose muse whilome did maske , As time her taught , in lowly shepheards ' weeds , Are now enforst , a farre unfitter taske , For trumpets sterne to change mine oaten reeds , And sing of knights ' and ...
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... Faerie Queene " from that of his " Shepheard's Calender , " and again in his minor pieces employing a dialect between the ruggedness of the latter , and the romantic stateliness of the former . But Spenser was one of the masters of the ...
... Faerie Queene " from that of his " Shepheard's Calender , " and again in his minor pieces employing a dialect between the ruggedness of the latter , and the romantic stateliness of the former . But Spenser was one of the masters of the ...
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... Faerie Queene , " having given a stanza in a former paper . The quaint yet sweet , the homely yet venerable style in which it is composed has be- come well known ; less , indeed , from the original than from the numerous imitations of ...
... Faerie Queene , " having given a stanza in a former paper . The quaint yet sweet , the homely yet venerable style in which it is composed has be- come well known ; less , indeed , from the original than from the numerous imitations of ...
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... Faerie Queene ; " at the same time , it is probable , that if it had not been allegorical at all , it would have been a far more felicitous and attractive work of imagination . In all allegories of length we grow dull as the story ...
... Faerie Queene ; " at the same time , it is probable , that if it had not been allegorical at all , it would have been a far more felicitous and attractive work of imagination . In all allegories of length we grow dull as the story ...
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... Faerie Queene " of Spenser , and , to crown all , the " Tem- pest " and " Midsummer Night's Dream " of Shaks- peare . But these belong to a later period . Of the literature of the middle ages it may generally be said that it was ...
... Faerie Queene " of Spenser , and , to crown all , the " Tem- pest " and " Midsummer Night's Dream " of Shaks- peare . But these belong to a later period . Of the literature of the middle ages it may generally be said that it was ...
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