Observations on the Fairy Queen of Spenser, Հատոր 1C. Stower, 1807 |
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... writing would have succeeded . With these advantages it was reasonable to con- clude , that unnatural events , the machina- tions of imaginary beings , and adventures entertaining only as they were improbable , would have given place to ...
... writing would have succeeded . With these advantages it was reasonable to con- clude , that unnatural events , the machina- tions of imaginary beings , and adventures entertaining only as they were improbable , would have given place to ...
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... written in professed imitation of the Iliad . But this attempt met with little regard or applause for the reason on which its real merit was founded . rejected as an insipid and uninteresting per- formance , having few devils or ...
... written in professed imitation of the Iliad . But this attempt met with little regard or applause for the reason on which its real merit was founded . rejected as an insipid and uninteresting per- formance , having few devils or ...
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... written twelve different books , in each of which he might have com- pleted the pattern of a particular virtue in twelve Knights respectively : at present he has remarkably failed , in endeavouring to re- present all the virtues ...
... written twelve different books , in each of which he might have com- pleted the pattern of a particular virtue in twelve Knights respectively : at present he has remarkably failed , in endeavouring to re- present all the virtues ...
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... writing by rule , are apt to try every composition by those laws which we have been taught to think the sole criterion of ex- cellence . Critical taste is universally diffused , and we require the same order and design which every ...
... writing by rule , are apt to try every composition by those laws which we have been taught to think the sole criterion of ex- cellence . Critical taste is universally diffused , and we require the same order and design which every ...
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... written of Sir Launcelot , that he wore the sleeve of the faire maid of Asteloth in a tournay : whereat Queen Genever was much dis- pleased . " This is the passage " When Queen Genever wist that Sir Launcelot beare * Orig . and Gest ...
... written of Sir Launcelot , that he wore the sleeve of the faire maid of Asteloth in a tournay : whereat Queen Genever was much dis- pleased . " This is the passage " When Queen Genever wist that Sir Launcelot beare * Orig . and Gest ...
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Էջ 23 - 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...
Էջ 72 - ... blind harpers or such like taverne minstrels that give a fit of mirth for a groat, and their matters being for the most part stories of old time, as the tale of sir Topas, the reportes of Bevis of Southampton, Guy of Warwicke, Adam Bell, and Clymme of the Clough, and such other old romances or historicall rimes, made purposely for recreation of the common people at christmasse diners and brideales, and in tavernes and alehouses, and such other places of base resort.
Էջ 342 - Through the dear might of Him that walked the waves, Where other groves and other streams along, With nectar pure his oozy locks he laves, And hears the unexpressive nuptial song In the blest kingdoms meek of joy and love. There entertain him all the Saints above, In solemn troops, and sweet societies, That sing, and singing in their glory move, And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes.
Էջ 350 - Such forces met not, nor so wide a camp, When Agrican, with all his northern powers, Besieged Albracca, as romances tell, The city...
Էջ 348 - Sirens' harmony, That sit upon the nine infolded spheres, And sing to those that hold the vital shears, And turn the adamantine spindle round On which the fate of gods and men is wound. Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie, To lull the daughters of Necessity, And keep unsteady Nature to her law, And the low world in measured motion draw After the heavenly tune, which none can hear Of human mould with gross unpurged ear.
Էջ 190 - The eugh obedient to the benders will, The birch for shaftes, the sallow for the mill, The mirrhe sweete bleeding in the bitter wound, The warlike beech, the ash for nothing ill, The fruitful olive, and the platane round, The carver holme, the maple seeldom inward sound.
Էջ 338 - The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook : And of those...
Էջ 302 - AND I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
Էջ 166 - What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread; Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said. But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.
Էջ 21 - Impros?, io canto*. |J3ut it is absurd to think of judging either Ariosto or Spenser by precepts ,which they did not attend to.