Poets and Puritans: By T.R. Glover ...Methuen & Company, Limited, 1923 - 323 pages |
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... passages , if innocent in intention , are hardly to be innocently read ; and finally that the flattery of Queen Elizabeth , which pervades the whole , is excessive , and indeed a gross flaw upon the art and character of the poet . The ...
... passages , if innocent in intention , are hardly to be innocently read ; and finally that the flattery of Queen Elizabeth , which pervades the whole , is excessive , and indeed a gross flaw upon the art and character of the poet . The ...
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... of books iii . and iv . owes something to the 1 See Spenser's Mother Hubberd's Tale - a poem on Chaucerian lines , with passages on clergy . influence of other Greek romances- -an influence also to be 14 POETS AND PURITANS.
... of books iii . and iv . owes something to the 1 See Spenser's Mother Hubberd's Tale - a poem on Chaucerian lines , with passages on clergy . influence of other Greek romances- -an influence also to be 14 POETS AND PURITANS.
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... passage plaine . To pleasures pallace : it may soon be spide , And day and night her dores to all stand open wide ( ii . 3 , 41 ) . In these lines there are at least two echoes of famous passages in the classics — τῆς ἀρετῆς ἱδρῶτα θεοὶ ...
... passage plaine . To pleasures pallace : it may soon be spide , And day and night her dores to all stand open wide ( ii . 3 , 41 ) . In these lines there are at least two echoes of famous passages in the classics — τῆς ἀρετῆς ἱδρῶτα θεοὶ ...
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... i . § 1 , for a discussion of this , and Spenser's debt to Plato in his treatment of Una and § 3 Britomart , where he contrasts the passage in Ariosto on which it was modelled . And as his hand he up againe did reare , SPENSER 27.
... i . § 1 , for a discussion of this , and Spenser's debt to Plato in his treatment of Una and § 3 Britomart , where he contrasts the passage in Ariosto on which it was modelled . And as his hand he up againe did reare , SPENSER 27.
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... passage , and watch how he sees in turn the things and is thrilled . There is passion in his prose - enthusiasm and hero - worship . He lives in a great age , an age of freedom and of victory— and round about him are men for whom it is ...
... passage , and watch how he sees in turn the things and is thrilled . There is passion in his prose - enthusiasm and hero - worship . He lives in a great age , an age of freedom and of victory— and round about him are men for whom it is ...
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