The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: With the Life of the Author and the Critical Remarks of Hughes, Spence, Warton, Upton, and Hurd, Volume 9Cadell and Davies ... and Samuel Bagster, 1807 - English poetry |
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... reason that he has been the father of more poets among us than any other of our writers ; poetry being first kindled in the imagination , which Spenser writes to more than any one , and the season of youth being the most susceptible of ...
... reason that he has been the father of more poets among us than any other of our writers ; poetry being first kindled in the imagination , which Spenser writes to more than any one , and the season of youth being the most susceptible of ...
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... reason for the use of 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 ...
... reason for the use of 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 ...
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... reason , as he relates it af- ter Plato , when the wise Socrates himself was prompted by a particular impulse to the writing of verses , being by his constant employment in the stu- dy of truth a stranger to the art of invention , he ...
... reason , as he relates it af- ter Plato , when the wise Socrates himself was prompted by a particular impulse to the writing of verses , being by his constant employment in the stu- dy of truth a stranger to the art of invention , he ...
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... reason and speech to beasts , insects , and plants ; and by that means covertly instructs mankind in the most important incidents and concerns of their lives . I am not insensible that the word Allegory has been sometimes used in a ...
... reason and speech to beasts , insects , and plants ; and by that means covertly instructs mankind in the most important incidents and concerns of their lives . I am not insensible that the word Allegory has been sometimes used in a ...
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... reason censured the employing them in just epick poems . Of this kind are Sin and Death , which I mentioned before in Milton , and Fame in Virgil . We find , likewise , a large group of these shadowy figures placed in the Sixth Book of ...
... reason censured the employing them in just epick poems . Of this kind are Sin and Death , which I mentioned before in Milton , and Fame in Virgil . We find , likewise , a large group of these shadowy figures placed in the Sixth Book of ...
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Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...