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Page ix
... Spenser had not been dead ten years , and Shakspeare was yet living . In these two all the inexhaustible abundance of poetical thought , imagery , and language was to be found , even if all other fountains had been shut . It was a ...
... Spenser had not been dead ten years , and Shakspeare was yet living . In these two all the inexhaustible abundance of poetical thought , imagery , and language was to be found , even if all other fountains had been shut . It was a ...
Page xi
... Spenserian stanza : he moves with great ease and address amidst the embarrassment of a frequent return of rhyme . " Several ... Spenser , and Shakspeare , more suited to Milton's genius ; which yet he was deterred from introducing in ...
... Spenserian stanza : he moves with great ease and address amidst the embarrassment of a frequent return of rhyme . " Several ... Spenser , and Shakspeare , more suited to Milton's genius ; which yet he was deterred from introducing in ...
Page xiii
... Spenser , Shakspeare , Ben Jonson , Beaumont and Fletcher , and Joshua Sylvester's Du Bartas : but they could not be found combined into a uniform and unbroken texture , nor with the same uniformity of elevated and spiritual thought ...
... Spenser , Shakspeare , Ben Jonson , Beaumont and Fletcher , and Joshua Sylvester's Du Bartas : but they could not be found combined into a uniform and unbroken texture , nor with the same uniformity of elevated and spiritual thought ...
Page xv
... Spenser already began to show itself , moulded up with a character of his own . But Ovid was a poet of a more whimsical and undignified kind , of whom it was strange that he should have been fond , but whom his Latin verses almost ...
... Spenser already began to show itself , moulded up with a character of his own . But Ovid was a poet of a more whimsical and undignified kind , of whom it was strange that he should have been fond , but whom his Latin verses almost ...
Page xxi
... Spenser there is more profusion and more flexibility , but not the same sombre and sublime cast . In Shakspeare also , there is more sweetness and less study ; more of the " native woodnote wild ; " but not that solemn and divine strain ...
... Spenser there is more profusion and more flexibility , but not the same sombre and sublime cast . In Shakspeare also , there is more sweetness and less study ; more of the " native woodnote wild ; " but not that solemn and divine strain ...
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