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Page 61
... face Like ghost late risen from his grave agryz'd . Spenser's fear and horror of the alien Irish and the face of their misery is betrayed in the choice of the image ( IV , viii 12 ) . As Book IV draws to its close the marriage of Thames ...
... face Like ghost late risen from his grave agryz'd . Spenser's fear and horror of the alien Irish and the face of their misery is betrayed in the choice of the image ( IV , viii 12 ) . As Book IV draws to its close the marriage of Thames ...
Page 69
... face of the earth hath the like . For as these were not created to beautify the earth alone and to cover and shadow her dusty face , but otherwise for the use of man and beast to feed them and cure them , so were not these uncountable ...
... face of the earth hath the like . For as these were not created to beautify the earth alone and to cover and shadow her dusty face , but otherwise for the use of man and beast to feed them and cure them , so were not these uncountable ...
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... face did find , When she at last him spying thus bespake ; Hayle Groome ; didst not thou see a bleeding Hind , Whose right haunch larst my stedfast arrow Strake ? If thou didst , tell me , that I may her ouertake . Wherewith reviu'd ...
... face did find , When she at last him spying thus bespake ; Hayle Groome ; didst not thou see a bleeding Hind , Whose right haunch larst my stedfast arrow Strake ? If thou didst , tell me , that I may her ouertake . Wherewith reviu'd ...
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