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... wrote a few pretty sonnets , his literary reputa- tion rests on his prose works ; the " Arcadia , " a mixture of the heroic and pastoral romance , much admired at that time , and the " Defence of Poesy , " a short treatise written in ...
... wrote a few pretty sonnets , his literary reputa- tion rests on his prose works ; the " Arcadia , " a mixture of the heroic and pastoral romance , much admired at that time , and the " Defence of Poesy , " a short treatise written in ...
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Kate Sanborn. by poets , and mournful elegies , with the pens that wrote them , were thrown into his grave . Lowell says , " The rare nature of Spenser was , like a Venice glass , meant only to mantle with the wine of sun- niest poesy ...
Kate Sanborn. by poets , and mournful elegies , with the pens that wrote them , were thrown into his grave . Lowell says , " The rare nature of Spenser was , like a Venice glass , meant only to mantle with the wine of sun- niest poesy ...
Page 67
... wrote a little poetry , and translated the 114th and 136th Psalms into English verse , in a way that won high praise . In his seventeenth year he went to Cambridge , where he spent seven years , studying hard as ever , and showing great ...
... wrote a little poetry , and translated the 114th and 136th Psalms into English verse , in a way that won high praise . In his seventeenth year he went to Cambridge , where he spent seven years , studying hard as ever , and showing great ...
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... wrote , at the age of twenty - one , his grand hymn on the Nativity . In the garden there still stands , preserved with the greatest care , a mulberry - tree , which he planted in 1633 , the year in which he entered . Every spring it ...
... wrote , at the age of twenty - one , his grand hymn on the Nativity . In the garden there still stands , preserved with the greatest care , a mulberry - tree , which he planted in 1633 , the year in which he entered . Every spring it ...
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... wrote boldly in a way that made him many enemies . He also aided the Puritans in their war against the Established Church , which added to his unpopularity . His " Treatise on the Reformation " was published in 1641 , which abounds in ...
... wrote boldly in a way that made him many enemies . He also aided the Puritans in their war against the Established Church , which added to his unpopularity . His " Treatise on the Reformation " was published in 1641 , which abounds in ...
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