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Page ix
... reader so that he can share the enjoyment , the stimulus to mental and moral questioning and the experience of ' learning ' and enlightenment that an Elizabethan reader felt : Thy muse hath got such grace and power to please with rare ...
... reader so that he can share the enjoyment , the stimulus to mental and moral questioning and the experience of ' learning ' and enlightenment that an Elizabethan reader felt : Thy muse hath got such grace and power to please with rare ...
Page 80
... reader . This is true today , only the sets we respond to are different . Recently a trio of photographs was ... reader , like Guyon , has been warned , and must be ' wary and wise ' . The presence of a number set which might show ...
... reader . This is true today , only the sets we respond to are different . Recently a trio of photographs was ... reader , like Guyon , has been warned , and must be ' wary and wise ' . The presence of a number set which might show ...
Page 109
... reader's mind since it belongs to the Legend of Temperaunce . ) By the same token , the name - conceit is central to Spenser's devising . ' Somersheat ' in Prothalamion is an extraction of sound- meanings from an actual name , Somerset ...
... reader's mind since it belongs to the Legend of Temperaunce . ) By the same token , the name - conceit is central to Spenser's devising . ' Somersheat ' in Prothalamion is an extraction of sound- meanings from an actual name , Somerset ...
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