| George Crabbe - 1840 - 360 pàgines
...which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue,...in with his palmer through the cave of Mammon and the bower of earthly bliss, that he might see and know, and yet abstain. Since, therefore, the knowledge... | |
| 1865 - 820 pàgines
...That which purifies is trial, and trial is by what is contrary; which was the reason why our sage, serious poet Spenser (whom I dare be known to think...Aquinas), describing true temperance under the person of Guyon, brings him with his palmer through the Cave of Mammon and the Bower of Bliss, that he might... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1844 - 584 pàgines
...Love. Having made an extract from him whom Milton calls " our sage and serious poet Spenser, whom J dare be known to think a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas," let me please myself still farther by hanging a sketch of his beside the others, with which it harmonizes... | |
| John Milton - 1845 - 572 pàgines
...which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue,...in with his palmer through the cave of Mammon, and the bower of earthly bliss, that he might see and know, and yet abstain. Since therefore the knowledge... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pàgines
...which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises the bower of earthly bliss, that he might see and know, and yet abstain. Since, therefore, the knowledge... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pàgines
...which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises kind of life, the Guión, brings him in with his Palmer through the cave of Mammon and the bower of earthly bliss, that... | |
| George Crabbe - 1847 - 618 pàgines
...which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vie* promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure; her whit ene« is but an excremental whiteness; »liich was the reason why our sage and serious poet Spenser... | |
| Edmund Spenser, Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1847 - 266 pàgines
...there has been but one voice from his own day to the present. Milton calls him " Our sago, serious Spenser, whom I dare be known to think a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas," and this sentiment has been echoed, in some form or other, by all who have given an opinion on the... | |
| Edmund Spenser, Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1847 - 272 pàgines
...there has been but one voice from his own day to the present. Milton calls him " Our sage, serious Spenser, whom I dare be known to think a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas," and this sentiment lias been echoed, in some form or other, by all who have given an opinion on the... | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer, Charles Dunham Deshler - 1848 - 564 pàgines
...there has been but one voice from his own day to the present. Milton calls him " Our sage, serious Spenser, whom I dare be known to think a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas," and this sentiment has been echoed, in some form or other, by all who have given an opinion on the... | |
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