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The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners : with Strictures on Their ... - Page 302
1802
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Lives of the English Sacred Poets, Volume 1

Robert Aris Willmott - 1839 - 388 pages
...every virtue a knight, to be the patron and defender of the same; in whose actions, the feats of arms and chivalry, the operations of that virtue whereof...appetites that oppose themselves against the same, are to be beaten down and overcome." Wesley may have referred the theological student to the poetry...
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The Church of England Magazine, Volume 7

1839 - 498 pages
...every virtue a knight, to be the patron and defender of the same ; in whose actions, the feats of arms and chivalry, the operations of that virtue whereof...appetites that oppose themselves against the same are to be beaten down and overcome." We must remember how congenial such a plan was with the spirit...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 1

1865 - 820 pages
...virtue a knight, to be patron and defender of the same, in whose actions, feats of arms and chivalrie the operations of that virtue whereof he is the protector...that oppose themselves against the same to be beaten down and overcome." We now turn aside from this noble poem, which, according to Campbell, makes Spenser...
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Select Poetry, Chiefly Devotional, of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, Part 1

Edward Farr - 1845 - 322 pages
...every virtue a knight, to be the patron and defender of the same; in whose actions the feats of arms and chivalry, the operations of that virtue whereof...appetites that oppose themselves against the same are to be beaten down and overcome." The " Faerie Queen" scarcely admits of extract, and Spenser is...
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Select Poetry, Chiefly Devotional, of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, Part 1

Edward Farr - 1845 - 320 pages
...every virtue a knight, to be the patron and defender of the same; in whose actions the feats of arms and chivalry, the operations of that virtue whereof...appetites that oppose themselves against the same are to be beaten down and overcome." The " Faerie Queen" scarcely admits of extract, and Spenser is...
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Spenser and the Faery Queen

Edmund Spenser, Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1847 - 272 pages
...patron (example) and defender of the same, in whose actions, feats of arms and chivalry, the operation of that virtue whereof he is the protector, are to...that oppose themselves against the same to be beaten down and overcome."/ This splendid opening, which Spenser never surpassed or even equalled, introduced...
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Selections from the Poetical Works of Geoffry Chaucer: With a Concise Life ...

Geoffrey Chaucer, Charles Dunham Deshler - 1847 - 736 pages
...patron (example) and defender of the same, in whose actions, feats of arms and chivalry, the operation of that virtue whereof he is the protector, are to...that oppose themselves against the same to be beaten down and overcome." This splendid opening, which Spenser never surpassed or even equalled, introduced...
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The Christian Parlor Magazine, Volume 8

1852 - 302 pages
...every virtue a knight, to'be the patron and defender of the same; in whose actions the feats of arms and chivalry, the operations of that virtue whereof...appetites that oppose themselves against the same, are to be beaten down and overcome." Among the early religous poets is Robert Southwell He belonged...
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Johnson's Lives of the British poets completed by W. Hazlitt, Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 360 pages
...assigning to every virtue a knight to be patron and defender of the same, in whose actions, feats of arms, and chivalry, the operations of that virtue whereof...against the same to be beaten downe and overcome." Such was his original design in this undertaking; and having prepared three books for the press, it...
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The Works of Edmund Spenser: With Observations on His Life and Writings

Edmund Spenser - 1857 - 600 pages
...be patron and defender of the same ; in whose actions, feats of armes, and chivalry, the operation of that virtue, whereof he is the protector, are to...against the same, to be beaten downe and overcome." At this period Spenser was introduced by Raleigh to Queen Elizabeth, who, in February, 1590-1, as we...
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