The Works of Edmund Spenser: The faerie queeneJohns Hopkins Press, 1934 |
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Page 254
... called the Gardens of Adonis , because Adonis delighted in such places . " As regards Adonis himself , Natalis Comes says that he is the author and nourisher of all seeds , who " gives nutriment to all things " and is called " of many ...
... called the Gardens of Adonis , because Adonis delighted in such places . " As regards Adonis himself , Natalis Comes says that he is the author and nourisher of all seeds , who " gives nutriment to all things " and is called " of many ...
Page 267
... called gallie men , as men that came up in the gallies , who brought up wines and other merchandizes , which they landed in Thames - strete , at a place called galley - key : they had a certaine coyne of silver amongst themselves ...
... called gallie men , as men that came up in the gallies , who brought up wines and other merchandizes , which they landed in Thames - strete , at a place called galley - key : they had a certaine coyne of silver amongst themselves ...
Page 330
... called in Claudian . It is not improbable , as our author has copied the greatest part of the second canto of this book from the Ceiris of Virgil , that he found , from the same poem , that Britomartis was a name for Diana , viz ...
... called in Claudian . It is not improbable , as our author has copied the greatest part of the second canto of this book from the Ceiris of Virgil , that he found , from the same poem , that Britomartis was a name for Diana , viz ...
Contents
COMMENTARY | 199 |
THE PLAN AND CONDUCT OF BOOK THREE | 310 |
THE ORIGIN OF BRITOMART | 330 |
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