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... Ireland the lease passed finally into his hands . By this time Books I to III of The Faerie Queene were completed and the Liffey and the Bog of Allen had found their way into the pattern of his imaginings . By 1583 he was Edmund Spenser ...
... Ireland the lease passed finally into his hands . By this time Books I to III of The Faerie Queene were completed and the Liffey and the Bog of Allen had found their way into the pattern of his imaginings . By 1583 he was Edmund Spenser ...
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... Ireland : the other island What can be sayd but that the secrett Judgment of God hangeth over this soyle , that causeth all the best endeavours of these that labor the reformation thereof to came to naught ? Ludowick Bryskett : a letter ...
... Ireland : the other island What can be sayd but that the secrett Judgment of God hangeth over this soyle , that causeth all the best endeavours of these that labor the reformation thereof to came to naught ? Ludowick Bryskett : a letter ...
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... Ireland , Eire . ( We recall that The Pale was known as ' the land of peace ' . ) The rescue of Irena for good and all is an impossibility as the inbuilt irreconcilables in her name declare . The poet shows Ireland in a context of ...
... Ireland , Eire . ( We recall that The Pale was known as ' the land of peace ' . ) The rescue of Irena for good and all is an impossibility as the inbuilt irreconcilables in her name declare . The poet shows Ireland in a context of ...
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