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... thought and diction , belong to his time ; but he has passages of copious and honeyed sweetness that belong to the finest poetic perception alone . * Spenser arose in the most memorable period of English history , the reign of Elizabeth ...
... thought and diction , belong to his time ; but he has passages of copious and honeyed sweetness that belong to the finest poetic perception alone . * Spenser arose in the most memorable period of English history , the reign of Elizabeth ...
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... thought and habit ; a stately superstition ; and a spirit of proud and melancholy romance , cherished by the circumstances , climate , and landscape of their soil . To those influences on the poet's mind may be attributed some of the ...
... thought and habit ; a stately superstition ; and a spirit of proud and melancholy romance , cherished by the circumstances , climate , and landscape of their soil . To those influences on the poet's mind may be attributed some of the ...
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... thought and language . All their beauties it would be impossible to give . But the following pages contain many of those passages on which their authors would perhaps be most content to be tried at the tribunal of popularity . There are ...
... thought and language . All their beauties it would be impossible to give . But the following pages contain many of those passages on which their authors would perhaps be most content to be tried at the tribunal of popularity . There are ...
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... thought and work , He was also a learned man , a clerk , That Christ's gospel truely would preach . His parishens devoutly would he teach , Benigne he was , and wondrous diligent , And in adversity full patient : And such he was yproved ...
... thought and work , He was also a learned man , a clerk , That Christ's gospel truely would preach . His parishens devoutly would he teach , Benigne he was , and wondrous diligent , And in adversity full patient : And such he was yproved ...
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... thought the very windows spake , So many greedy looks of young and old Through casements darted their desiring eyes Upon his visage ; and that all the walls , With painted imagery , had said at once- Jesu preserve thee ! welcome ...
... thought the very windows spake , So many greedy looks of young and old Through casements darted their desiring eyes Upon his visage ; and that all the walls , With painted imagery , had said at once- Jesu preserve thee ! welcome ...
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