 | George MacDonald, U. C. Knoepflmacher - Fiction - 1999 - 388 pages
...or subject matter, but rather to its narrative mode: "Great bards besides / In sage and solemn times have sung / Of tourneys and of trophies hung; / Of...enchantments drear, / Where more is meant than meets the ear." Adopting the tone of a professorial MacDonald lecturing to his Bedford College students, Mr.... | |
 | Roger Sherman Loomis - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 210 pages
...Reformation did these centuries-old tales of quest and conquest, of fairy loves and fatal passion, 'of tourneys and of trophies hung, of forests and...enchantments drear, where more is meant than meets the ear', go out of fashion. But not without leaving many permanent effects on life and literature. The... | |
 | Carol Falvo Heffernan - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 182 pages
...Penseroso: Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuskan bold, OfCamball, and ofAlgarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That own'd the virtuous...enchantments drear, Where more is meant than meets the ear.2 Goodman's stress on motifs the tale shares with other late medieval English romances contrasts... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife. That owned the virtuous ring and glass,0 And of the wondrous horse of brass, On which the Tartar...enchantments drear, Where more is meant than meets the ear. no Thus Night oft see me in thy pale career,0 Till civil-suited Morn appear,0 Not tricked and... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 2003 - 1084 pages
...heroes and poets" in Elysium (Aen. VI, The story of Cambuscan bold, no Of Camball, and of Algarsije, And who had Canace to wife, That own'd the virtuous...Horse of Brass, On which the Tartar King did ride; 115 And if aught else great Bards beside In sage and solemn tunes have sung, Of Tourneys and of Trophies... | |
 | John Milton - 2006 - 66 pages
...half-told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That owned the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous horse...bards beside In sage and solemn tunes have sung, Of turneys, and of trophies hung, Of forests, and enchantments drear, Where more is meant than meets the... | |
 | John Milton - Fiction - 2006 - 94 pages
...king did ride; And if aught else great bards beside In sage and solemn tunes have sung, Of turneys, and of trophies hung, Of forests, and enchantments...ear. Thus, Night, oft see me in thy pale career, Till civil-suited Morn appear, Not tricked and frounced, as she was wont With the Attic boy to hunt, But... | |
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Or call up him that left half told The Story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That own'd the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous horse of brass, On which the Tartar king did ride... 
