... our sage and serious poet Spenser, whom I dare be known to think a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas, describing true temperance under the person of Guion, brings him in with his Palmer through the cave of Mammon, and the bower of earthly bliss,... Recollections of a Literary Life, Or, Books, Places, and People - Page 344 by Mary Russell Mitford - 1853 Full view -
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