 The nobility of the Spencers has been illustrated and enriched by the trophies of Marlborough ; but I exhort them to consider the Fairy Queen* as the most precious jewel of their coronet.  The Works of Edmund Spenser - Page lxxiiiby Edmund Spenser - 1805Full view - About this book
 | Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 360 pages
...is ftill revered , by the fovereign and the people , as the lively image of the wifeft of mankind. The nobility of the Spencers has been illuftrated...Queen as the moft precious jewel of their coronet. I have expofed my private feelings, as I (hall always do, without fcruple orreferve. That thefe fentiments... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English letters - 1796 - 520 pages
...family is ftill revered, by the fovereign and the people, as the lively image of the wifeft of mankind. The nobility of the Spencers has been illuftrated...Marlborough ; but I exhort them to confider the Fairy £>ueen as the moft precious jewel of their coronet. I have expofed my private feelings, as I (hall... | |
 | 1797 - 666 pages
...delight the laioit unlUriiy," ScC. itlnftrated and enriched by the trophies of Marlborough ; but 1 exhort them to confider the Fairy Queen as the moft precious jewel of their coronet *." " To SAMUEL ECIRTON BRYOOU, Efj. Denton, near Canterbury. " Sir, By the ftrange indifference of... | |
 | Books and bookselling - 1797 - 512 pages
...mankind. The nobility of the Spencers has been illuftrattd and enriched by the trophies of Marlboroagh j but I exhort them to confider the Fairy Queen as the moft precious jewel- of their coronet. I have expofed my private feejings, as I fhall always do, without fcruple or referve. That thefe fentiments... | |
 | Edward Phillips - English poetry - 1800 - 440 pages
...honour on it, than he derives from it. " The nobility of the Spencers," fays the elegant Gibbon, " has been illuftrated and enriched by the trophies of Marlborough ; but I exhort them to confider L 3 the the " Fairy Queen" as the moft precious jewel of their coronet."* f * Memoirs of Edward Gibbon,... | |
 | William Hayley - 1803 - 348 pages
...vivid powers of defcription, may be thought to refemble Cowper. Tbe P a Jfog' I allude to is this : " The nobility of the Spencers has been illuftrated...but I exhort them to confider the Fairy Queen as the mojl precious jewel of their coronet." If this lively metaphor is juji in every point of view, toe... | |
 | William Hayley - Authors, English - 1803 - 450 pages
...Cowper. — The passage I allude to is this : — " The nobility of the Spencers has been illustrated and enriched by the trophies of Marlborough, but I exhort them to consider the Fairy Queen as the most precious jewel of their coronet" If this lively metaphor is just... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...people, as the lively image of the wisest of mankind. The nobility of the Spencers has been illustrated and enriched by the trophies of Marlborough; but I exhort them to consider the Fairy 2>ueen as the most precious jewel of their coronet. I have exposed my private feelings,... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 528 pages
...himself was the greatest honour. " The nobility of the Spencers (says Gibbon) has been illustrated and enriched by the trophies of Marlborough ; but I exhort them to consider the Faery Queen as the most precious jewel of their coronet." He was admitted, in 1509, at... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 970 pages
...himself was the greatest honour. " The nobility of the Spencers (says Gibbon) has been illustrated and enriched by the trophies of Marlborough ; but I exhort them to consider the Faery Queen as the most precious jewel of their coronet." He was admitted, in 1569, at... | |
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