 | Albert Charles Hamilton - Reference - 1997 - 884 pages
...it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure; her whiteness is but an excremental [ie, external] whiteness; which was the reason why our sage and serious poet...Aquinas, describing true temperance under the person of Guyon, brings him in with his palmer through the cave of Mammon and the bower of earthly bliss, that... | |
 | John Hollander - Poetry - 1990 - 280 pages
...followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure; her whiteness is but an excremental whiteness; which was the reason why our sage and serious Poet Spenser, whom I dare to be known to think a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas, describing true temperance under the... | |
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... 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,... 
