Poets and Puritans: By T.R. Glover ...Methuen & Company, Limited, 1923 - 323 pages |
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Page 6
... Italian highly regarded ; the Latin and Greek but lightly ... Turkish affairs familiarly known castles built in the air : much ado and little help in no age so little so much made of ; every one highly in his own favour . . . the Gospel ...
... Italian highly regarded ; the Latin and Greek but lightly ... Turkish affairs familiarly known castles built in the air : much ado and little help in no age so little so much made of ; every one highly in his own favour . . . the Gospel ...
Page 7
... Italian adventurers were holding Smerwick.1 The rest of his life Spenser passed in Ireland , with only an occasional visit to England . He eventually received a grant of 3000 acres and Kilcolman Castle . There is in his fragmentary book ...
... Italian adventurers were holding Smerwick.1 The rest of his life Spenser passed in Ireland , with only an occasional visit to England . He eventually received a grant of 3000 acres and Kilcolman Castle . There is in his fragmentary book ...
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... Italian models were the Idylls of Sannazaro and the epics of Ariosto and Tasso . It is interesting to note that some part - perhaps a book or more - of the Faerie Queene was written before the first complete edition of Tasso's La ...
... Italian models were the Idylls of Sannazaro and the epics of Ariosto and Tasso . It is interesting to note that some part - perhaps a book or more - of the Faerie Queene was written before the first complete edition of Tasso's La ...
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... Italian ; and he who would master its secrets must obey - neither pedant nor poet - but the language itself . Spenser listened to his own mother tongue while the rest theorized , and he learnt it - learnt its cadences , its sug ...
... Italian ; and he who would master its secrets must obey - neither pedant nor poet - but the language itself . Spenser listened to his own mother tongue while the rest theorized , and he learnt it - learnt its cadences , its sug ...
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... Italian , adding the ninth line , the Alexandrine , here no " wounded snake " of " slow length . " The nine lines , with the interwoven rhymes , sometimes two , generally three , form a unity capable of remarkable variation . No stanza ...
... Italian , adding the ninth line , the Alexandrine , here no " wounded snake " of " slow length . " The nine lines , with the interwoven rhymes , sometimes two , generally three , form a unity capable of remarkable variation . No stanza ...
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