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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1917 Excerpt: ... Myld humblesse mixt with awfull majesty. For looking on the earth, whence she was borne, Her minde remembreth her mortalitie: What so is fayrest shall to earth returne. But that same lofty countenance seemes to scorne Base thing, and thinke how she to heaven may clime, Treading downe earth as lothsome aud forlorne, That hinders heavenly thoughts with drossy slime. Yet lowly still vouchsafe to looke on me; Such lowlinesse shall make you lofty be. In this sonnet there is a peculiar combination of warm earthiness and idealistic fervor that I find in no other but the poet of The Faerie Queene. The harmony of humility and pride, though not unknown to other poets of the renaissance, troubles Professor Dodge who, strangely enough, misses its point, its reality, its lovely perfection in Spenser. To appreciate the perfect reality of this harmony of humility and pride we must separate that pride which the medieval allegorist rightly made the most subtle demon of the Seven Deadly Sins and another kind of pride, a rare virtue that in the supreme souls of the renaissance.glowed easily in solution with true humility. Or if this seem fanciful, we may note, in the recent psychological terminology of Professor McDougall's Introduetion to Social Psychology that "the instincts of self-abasement and of self-assertion" may blend in the "self-regarding sentiment." The climax of the first mood comes with a sonnet tinged with an earnest and beautiful piety.15 This holy season fit to fast and pray, Men to devotion ought to be inclynd: Therefore, I lykewise, on so holy day, For my sweet saynt some service fit will find. Her temple fayre is built within my mind, In which her glorious ymage placed is, On which my thoughts doo day and night attend, Lyke sacred priests that never thinke...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781154305029
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 186
  • Spine Width: 10 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1154305023
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 340 gr

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