The Spenser EncyclopediaA.C. Hamilton 'This masterly work ought to be The Elizabethan Encyclopedia, and no less.' - Cahiers Elizabethains |
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... ideal of beauty— and to give back to Venus what various beauties had borrowed from her. Spenser cites the Zeuxian procedure (attributing it to Apelles) both at Satyrane's beauty contest (IV v 12) and in the final dedicatory sonnet To ...
... ideal of beauty— and to give back to Venus what various beauties had borrowed from her. Spenser cites the Zeuxian procedure (attributing it to Apelles) both at Satyrane's beauty contest (IV v 12) and in the final dedicatory sonnet To ...
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... ideal female or Fay, 'Of whom all Faeryes spring, and fetch their lignage right.' In the second, Cupid 'his owne perfection wrought' so that shortly he 'was of all the Gods the first.' In the third, most comprehensively, 'there is the ...
... ideal female or Fay, 'Of whom all Faeryes spring, and fetch their lignage right.' In the second, Cupid 'his owne perfection wrought' so that shortly he 'was of all the Gods the first.' In the third, most comprehensively, 'there is the ...
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... ideal, the very work of moving toward that ideal opens more spaces than it can close. The true purpose, therefore, of that increasingly problematic structure of meaning which we accumulate as we read is not to capture the truth but to ...
... ideal, the very work of moving toward that ideal opens more spaces than it can close. The true purpose, therefore, of that increasingly problematic structure of meaning which we accumulate as we read is not to capture the truth but to ...
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... ideal meaning that is beyond the figurative distortions of language; and on the other hand, the author recognizes this assumption to be false because, in assuming one can return to an original point and find it unchanged, the reality of ...
... ideal meaning that is beyond the figurative distortions of language; and on the other hand, the author recognizes this assumption to be false because, in assuming one can return to an original point and find it unchanged, the reality of ...
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... ideal of mutual love which they keep before us: 'Sweet be the bands, the which true love doth tye,/without constraynt or dread of any ill' (Am 65). In the Petrarchan sonnet sequence (eg, Sidney's Astrophil and Stella), the lover engages ...
... ideal of mutual love which they keep before us: 'Sweet be the bands, the which true love doth tye,/without constraynt or dread of any ill' (Am 65). In the Petrarchan sonnet sequence (eg, Sidney's Astrophil and Stella), the lover engages ...
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