Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from Earliest to the Present Time : Connected by a Critical and Biographical HistoryRobert Chambers Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1850 - English literature |
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... Faery Queen as the most precious jewel in their coronet . The poet was entered a sizer ( one of the humblest class of students ) of Pembroke College , Cambridge , in May 1569 , and continued to attend college for seven years , taking ...
... Faery Queen as the most precious jewel in their coronet . The poet was entered a sizer ( one of the humblest class of students ) of Pembroke College , Cambridge , in May 1569 , and continued to attend college for seven years , taking ...
Page 87
... Faery Queen , and received the visits of Raleigh , whom he fancifully styled the Shepherd of the Ocean ; ' and here he brought home his wife , the Elizabeth ' of his sonnets , welcom- ing her with that noble strain of pure and fervent ...
... Faery Queen , and received the visits of Raleigh , whom he fancifully styled the Shepherd of the Ocean ; ' and here he brought home his wife , the Elizabeth ' of his sonnets , welcom- ing her with that noble strain of pure and fervent ...
Page 88
... Faery Queen was enthusiastically received . It could scarcely , indeed , be otherwise , considering how well it was adapted to the court and times of the Virgin Queen , where gallantry and chivalry were so strangely mingled with the ...
... Faery Queen was enthusiastically received . It could scarcely , indeed , be otherwise , considering how well it was adapted to the court and times of the Virgin Queen , where gallantry and chivalry were so strangely mingled with the ...
Page 89
... Faery Queen without recalling its wondrous scenes of enchantment and beauty , and feeling ourselves lulled , as it ... queen of fairy lond , ) To win him worship , and her grace to have , Which of all earthly things he most did crave ...
... Faery Queen without recalling its wondrous scenes of enchantment and beauty , and feeling ourselves lulled , as it ... queen of fairy lond , ) To win him worship , and her grace to have , Which of all earthly things he most did crave ...
Page 93
... Faery Queen , we have , for the sake of perspicuity , modernised the spelling , without changing a word of the original . The following two highly poetical descriptions are given in the poet's own orthography : - [ The House of Sleep ...
... Faery Queen , we have , for the sake of perspicuity , modernised the spelling , without changing a word of the original . The following two highly poetical descriptions are given in the poet's own orthography : - [ The House of Sleep ...
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