1020 examples of spensers in sentences

Spenser uses it not unfrequently "Perdie, Sir Knight," said then the enchanter b'live, "That shall I shortly purchase to your bond.

To blin is to cease, and in this sense it is met with in Spenser and other poets.

" Spenser's "Faerie Queene," b. vi. c. x.

The introduction of Malbecco and Paridell into it, from Spenser's "Faerie Queene," may be some guide as to the period when the comedy was first produced.

" Spenser uses the word, "Faerie Queene," b. i. c. iv.

[Old copy and former edits., Dunston's.] See the story of Malbecco in Spenser's "Faerie Queene," b. iii.

It is used by Skelton, and sometimes by Spenser.

In the "Monk's Tale" there is a melodious measure which may have furnished the model for Spenser's famous stanza.

A long stride carries us to the latter years of Queen Elizabeth, where, and in the ensuing reign of James, we find the names of Edmund Spenser, Samuel Daniel, and Michael Drayton interwoven with the bays.

Spenser's possession of the laurel rests upon no better evidence than that, when he presented the earlier books of the "Faery Queen" to Elizabeth, a pension of fifty pounds a year was conferred upon him, and that the praises of Gloriana ring through his realm of Faëry in unceasing panegyric.

Southey, pardonably anxious to magnify an office belittled by some of its occupants, does not scruple to rank Spenser, Daniel, and Drayton among the Laurelled: "That wreath, which, in Eliza's golden days, My master dear, divinest Spenser, wore, That which rewarded Drayton's learned lays, Which thoughtful Ben and gentle Daniel bore," etc.

Southey, pardonably anxious to magnify an office belittled by some of its occupants, does not scruple to rank Spenser, Daniel, and Drayton among the Laurelled: "That wreath, which, in Eliza's golden days, My master dear, divinest Spenser, wore, That which rewarded Drayton's learned lays, Which thoughtful Ben and gentle Daniel bore," etc.

But in sober prose Southey knew, and later in life taught, that not one of the three named ever wore the authentic laurel.[10] That Drayton deserved it, even as a successor of the divinest Spenser, who shall deny?

Footnote 1: SPENSER: Faery Queen.

He drew his first inspiration from Grecian mythology and the romantic world of Spenser, not from the French Revolution or the social unrest of his own day.

Spenser has imitated this sublime piece of pleasantry; for, by a curious intermixture of all which the mind can experience from such a fiction, pleasant it is in the midst of its sublimity,laughable with satirical archness, as well as grand and terrible in the climax.

The transformation in Spenser is from a jealous man into Jealousy.

" Spenser's picture is more subtly wrought and imaginative than Ariosto's; but it removes the man farther from ourselves, except under very special circumstances.

Honorabilis admodum THOMAS HANMER, Baronnettus, Augustus still survives in Maro's strain, And Spenser's verse prolongs Eliza's reign; Great George's acts let tuneful Gibber sing; For nature formed the poet for the king.

[a] These lines are a translation of part of a song in the Complete Angler of Isaac Walton, written by John Chalkhill, a friend of Spenser, and a good poet in his time.

Where is deeper philosophic thought, true or false, expressed in verse, than in Dante, or in Spenser's two cantos of "Mutabilities"?

He did not see around him Raleighs and Sidneys, Cecils and Hookers, Drakes and Frobishers, Spensers and Jonsons, Southamptons and Willoughbys, with an Elizabeth, guiding and moulding the great whole, a crowned Titaness, terrible, and strong, and wisea woman who, whether right or wrong, bowed the proudest, if not to love, yet still to obey.

I told him that that stranger was a follower of the Spensers'; he checked his unfinished benediction, and cursed him.

In that day, spensers were unknown, staysails doing their duty.

With the Shakspeares, Chaucers, Spensers, Miltons, Byrons, Wordsworths, and Coleridges, the Dii majorum gentium of the Poetic Pantheon of Britain, Dryden ranks not, although towering far above the Moores, Goldsmiths, Gays, and Priors.

1020 examples of  spensers  in sentences