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... meaning . In the employment of words from old poets Spenser shows that he realized such archaic words had a nucleus of meanings - witness in ' Maye ' the Gloss on Chevisaunce ' sometime of Chaucer used for game : sometime of other for ...
... meaning . In the employment of words from old poets Spenser shows that he realized such archaic words had a nucleus of meanings - witness in ' Maye ' the Gloss on Chevisaunce ' sometime of Chaucer used for game : sometime of other for ...
Page 109
... meaning in it was to be discovered and expounded as was meaning in scripture ( the pun was drawn on in expounding Holy Writ ) . On the same principle the pun is widely used by Spenser as a point where a range of indwelling senses can be ...
... meaning in it was to be discovered and expounded as was meaning in scripture ( the pun was drawn on in expounding Holy Writ ) . On the same principle the pun is widely used by Spenser as a point where a range of indwelling senses can be ...
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... meaning and at the same time linking his imaginative act of creation with cosmic rhythm . He is not ' making it up ' ; it is all there to be discovered , revealed . From the central act of imagination , his ' invention ' in the ...
... meaning and at the same time linking his imaginative act of creation with cosmic rhythm . He is not ' making it up ' ; it is all there to be discovered , revealed . From the central act of imagination , his ' invention ' in the ...
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