The Spenser EncyclopediaA.C. Hamilton 'This masterly work ought to be The Elizabethan Encyclopedia, and no less.' - Cahiers Elizabethains |
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... lover of beauty is bound to do, according to the culminating speech of Castiglione's Courtier (ed 1928:317–18) ... lovers of beauty are seeking to possess. If we could see virtue we would love it, according to Sidney's Defence, whose poet ...
... lover of beauty is bound to do, according to the culminating speech of Castiglione's Courtier (ed 1928:317–18) ... lovers of beauty are seeking to possess. If we could see virtue we would love it, according to Sidney's Defence, whose poet ...
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... lover Verdant sleeping with his head in her lap. Guyon entraps her in the Palmer's 'subtile net' (as Vulcan entraps ... lovers to their human forms from the bestial forms they had assumed under her enchantment (except for Grill, who ...
... lover Verdant sleeping with his head in her lap. Guyon entraps her in the Palmer's 'subtile net' (as Vulcan entraps ... lovers to their human forms from the bestial forms they had assumed under her enchantment (except for Grill, who ...
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... lover of fleeing nymphs' according to Horace (Odes 3.18), and he is first mentioned in The Faerie Queene as chasing a nymph who is rescued and metamorphosed by Diana (II ii 7). In the Cantos of Mutabili-tie, his animal lusts again get ...
... lover of fleeing nymphs' according to Horace (Odes 3.18), and he is first mentioned in The Faerie Queene as chasing a nymph who is rescued and metamorphosed by Diana (II ii 7). In the Cantos of Mutabili-tie, his animal lusts again get ...
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... lovers (Aladine and Priscilla) 'in joyous jolliment/Of their franke loves' (16), and that her knight, desiring this new lady, had attacked and wounded her unarmed lover. When he could not find Priscilla, who had fled into the woods, the ...
... lovers (Aladine and Priscilla) 'in joyous jolliment/Of their franke loves' (16), and that her knight, desiring this new lady, had attacked and wounded her unarmed lover. When he could not find Priscilla, who had fled into the woods, the ...
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... lover who composes them. In contrast, the epithalamium is a classical genre, one public and festive in purpose rather than private and expressive of personal grief. Spenser's imagination was perhaps the least naturally equipped of all ...
... lover who composes them. In contrast, the epithalamium is a classical genre, one public and festive in purpose rather than private and expressive of personal grief. Spenser's imagination was perhaps the least naturally equipped of all ...
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