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" There is something in Spenser that pleases one as strongly in old age as it did in one's youth. I read the Faerie Queene, when I was about twelve, with infinite delight; and I think it gave me as much, when I read it over about a year or two ago."—... "
The Doctor, &c. ... - Page 160
by Robert Southey - 1838
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An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2

Joseph Warton - 1782 - 514 pages
...one's old-age, as it did in one's youth ; I read the Fairy Queen when I was about twelve, with a vaft deal of delight; and I think it gave me as much, when I read it over about a year or two ago." VOL. II. 3 N OUT OUT of the fourth and following ftanza, miflcd by his .love of antithefis, he has...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq, Volume 6

Alexander Pope - English literature - 1797 - 440 pages
...one's old age as it did in one's youth. I read the Fairy Queen when I was about twelve with a vail deal of delight ; and I think it gave me as much when I read it over about a year or two ago." VER. 13. Mifled by his ufual love of antithefis, he has formed a trifling epigram, inftead of giving...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 33

1820 - 590 pages
...old age, as it did in one's youth. I read the Faerie Queene, when I was about twelve, with infinite delight ; and I think it gave me as much, when I read it over about a year or two ago.— P.' The date of this memorandum is 1743-4, a year before Pope's death. What he says of Chaucer is equally...
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The Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 1

Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1805 - 440 pages
...one's old age as it did in one's youth. I read the Faerie Qtteene when I was about twelve with a vaft deal of delight ; and I think it gave me as much, when I read it over about a year or two ago." Nor may I omit a few more remarks in regard to the language of the FaerieQueene, which js f afferted...
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The Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 1

Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1805 - 442 pages
...old age as it ' did in one's youth. **$ read the Faerie Qneene when I was about twelve with a vaft deal- of delight; and I think it gave me as much, when- 1 read it over about a year or two ag6." N6r may I omit a few more remarks in regard to the language...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Imitations of Horace. Memoirs of the ...

Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 442 pages
...one's old age as it did in one's youth. I read the Fairy Queen •when I was about twelve with a vaft deal of delight ; and I think it gave me as much when I read it over about a year or two ago." • WARTON. VER. 13. I fear we muft fubfcribe to Wavton's opinion, that " Pope has formed an Epigram,...
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The works of Alexander Pope. Containing the principal notes of drs ..., Volume 6

Alexander Pope - 1806 - 444 pages
...one's old age as it did in one's youth. I read the Fairy Queen when I was about twelve with a vaft deal of delight ; and I think it gave me as much when I read it over about a year or two ago." WARTON. VER. 13. I fear we muft fubfcribe to Warton's opinion, that " Pope has formed an Epigram, inftead...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. In Verse and Prose: Containing ..., Volume 6

Alexander Pope - 1806 - 446 pages
...one's old age as it did in one's, youth. I read the Fairy Queen when I was about twelve with a vaft deal of delight ; and I think it gave me as much when I read it over about a year or two ago." WARTON. VER. 13. I fear we muft fubfcribe to Warton's opinion, that " Pope has formed an Epigram, inftead...
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Spenser, Daniel

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 600 pages
...one's youth . I read the Faerie Queene, when I was about twel ve, with a vast deal of delight : md I think it gave me as much when I read it over about a year or two ago." Spence's Anecdotes, <p<'ted by Dr. Warton, who very justly censures Pope's Imitation of Spenser. See...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper;

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 562 pages
...one's youth. I read the Faerie Queene, when I was about twelve, with a vast deal of delight : ™ 1 think it gave me as much when I read it over about a year or two ago." Spence's Anecdotes, by Dr. Warton, who very justly censures Pope's Imitation of Spenser. See Pope's...
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