 Ouse came far from land, By many a city and by many a towne And many rivers taking under-hand Into his waters as he passeth downe, The Cle, the Were, the Grant, the Sture, the Rowne. Thence doth by Huntingdon and Cambridge flit, My mother Cambridge, whom...  Spenser's Faerie Queene - Pàgina 659per Edmund Spenser - 1758Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Thomas McKenny Hughes - 1965 - 296 pàgines
...to our quiet streams, "the plenteous Ouse " taking into his waters with many a river " the Guant." "Thence doth by Huntingdon and Cambridge flit, My...doth adorne and is adorn'd of it, With many a gentle Muse and many a learned Wit." Marlowe during his short life raised the Elizabethan drama to the point... | |
 | 1874 - 718 pàgines
...The fact is, " Muse" is here put for "poet" ; as in the Faerie Queene, B. IV. c. xi. st. 34 : — " My mother Cambridge, whom as with a crowne He doth adorne, and is adorn'd of it With many a gentle muse and many a learned wit." Shakspeare's 21st sonnet begins, — " So is it not with me as with that... | |
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