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... poet's throat- an Elizabethen gold sovereign . He has enwreathed the portrait - head with laurels , then with a ring of fairies for poetic imagination . On the poet's right appears ' Elisa , Queen of shepheards all ' decked with flowers ...
... poet's throat- an Elizabethen gold sovereign . He has enwreathed the portrait - head with laurels , then with a ring of fairies for poetic imagination . On the poet's right appears ' Elisa , Queen of shepheards all ' decked with flowers ...
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... poet , inspired with vision from heaven , casts his eye up to heaven for form with which to express it ; ' things unknown ' in Theseus ' phrase , are the ideal , the real , the true ; the poet's pen then embodies them in earthly terms ...
... poet , inspired with vision from heaven , casts his eye up to heaven for form with which to express it ; ' things unknown ' in Theseus ' phrase , are the ideal , the real , the true ; the poet's pen then embodies them in earthly terms ...
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... poet's father . At Hurst- wood an old family of Spencers had lived since 1292 and were flourishing in the poet's day ; their home was the house called ' Spencer's ' ( not Hurstwood Hall , but near it ) . Their coat - of - arms on a ...
... poet's father . At Hurst- wood an old family of Spencers had lived since 1292 and were flourishing in the poet's day ; their home was the house called ' Spencer's ' ( not Hurstwood Hall , but near it ) . Their coat - of - arms on a ...
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