| 1905 - 606 pages
...the poet holds almost identical language : ' Receive, most noble Lord, a simple taste Of the wilde fruit which salvage soil hath bred, Which being through...almost waste With brutish barbarism is overspread." Nor indeed was this kind of language peculiar to the poet of the ' Faery Queene.' It was the common... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 600 pages
...OF OSMOND AND OSSORY. RICETO, most noble lord, a simple taste Of the wilde fruit which salvage soy) hath bred ; Which, being through long wars left almost waste, With brutish barbarisms is overspredd : And, in so faire a land as may be redd, Not ooe Parnassus, nor one Helicone,... | |
| British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 356 pages
...OF ORMOND AND OSSORY. RECEIVE, most Noble Lord, a simple taste Of the wilde fruit which salvage soyl hath bred ; Which, being through long wars left almost waste, With brutish barbarisme is overspredd : And, in so faire a land as may be redd, Not one Parnassus, nor one Helicone,... | |
| Edmund Spenser - 1839 - 450 pages
...of Ormond and Ossory. RECEIYE, most Noble Lord, a simple taste Of the wilde fruit which salvage soyl hath bred; Which, being through long wars left almost waste, With brutish barbarisme is overspredd : And, in so faire a land as may be redd, i Not one Parnassus, nor one Helicone,... | |
| Edmund Spenser - 1843 - 388 pages
...OF ORUONO AND OSSORY. RECEIVE, most noble Lord, a simple taste Of the wilde fruit which salvage soyl hath bred : Which, being through long wars left almost waste, With brutish barbarisme is overspredd : And, in so faire a land as may be redd, Not one Parnassus, nor one Helicone,... | |
| Edmund Spenser, George Gilfillan - 1859 - 336 pages
...of Ormond * and Ossory. RECEIVE, most noble Lord, a simple taste Of the wild fruit which salvage x soil hath bred ; Which, being through long wars left...With brutish barbarism is overspread : And, in so faire a land as may be redd,2 Not one Parnassus, nor one Helicon, Left for sweet Muses to be harboured,... | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer - 1870 - 664 pages
...their first labour's needed furtherance. ES Та the Riyht Honourable the Earl of Urmond ami Ossory.7 RECEIVE, most noble Lord, a simple taste Of the wild...brutish barbarism is overspread : And, in so fair a land ae may be read,3 Not one Parnassus, nor one Helicon Left for sweet Muses to be harboured, But... | |
| Edmund Spenser - 1872 - 640 pages
...or ORMOND AND OUBOKV. RECEIVE, moKt Noble Lord, a simple taste Of the wildc fniit which salvage soyl hath bred ; Which, being through long wars left almost waste, With brutish barbarisme is overspredd : And, in so faire a land as may be redd, Not one Parnassus, nor one Helicone,... | |
| Authors, English - 1880 - 566 pages
...poem, addressed to the great men of Elizabeth's court, he presents his work to the Earl of Ormond, as " The wild fruit which salvage soil hath bred'; Which being through long wars left almost waste, ' ' • '•'• •• " Wijh brutish barbarism is overspread ;"^ . . :' and in the same strain to... | |
| Biography - 1883 - 776 pages
...poem, addressed to the great men of Elizabeth's court, he presents his work to the Earl of Ormond, as " The wild fruit which salvage soil hath bred ; Which...With brutish barbarism is overspread ; " — and in the same strain to Lord Grey, he speaks of his " rude rimes, tbe which a rustic muse did weave, in... | |
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