 | Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 360 pages
...people , as the lively image of the wifeft of mankind. The nobility of the Spencers has been illuftrated and enriched by the trophies of Marlborough ; but -I exhort them to confider the Fairy Queen as the moft precious jewel of their coronet. I have expofed my private feelings,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English letters - 1796 - 520 pages
...people, as the lively image of the wifeft of mankind. The nobility of the Spencers has been illuftrated and enriched by the trophies of Marlborough ; but I exhort them to confider the Fairy £>ueen as the moft precious jewel of their coronet. I have expofed my private feelings,... | |
 | Edward Phillips - English poetry - 1800 - 440 pages
...he derives from it. " The nobility of the Spencers," fays the elegant Gibbon, " has been illuftrated and enriched by the trophies of Marlborough ; but I exhort them to confider L 3 the the " Fairy Queen" as the moft precious jewel of their coronet."* f * Memoirs of Edward... | |
 | William Hayley - Authors, English - 1803 - 450 pages
...powers of description, may ' be thought to resemble Cowper. — The passage I allude to is this : — " The nobility of the Spencers has been illustrated...Queen as the most precious jewel of their coronet" If this lively metaphor is just in every point of view, we may regard The Task as a jewel of pre-eminent... | |
 | William Cowper - 1803 - 482 pages
...powers of description, may be thought to resemble Coivper.—The passage I allude to is this:— " The nobility of the Spencers has been illustrated...Marlborough, but I exhort them to consider the Fairy as the most precious jewel of their coronet." If this lively metaphor is just in every point of view,... | |
 | William Hayley - 1803 - 348 pages
...refemble Cowper. Tbe P a Jfog' I allude to is this : " The nobility of the Spencers has been illuftrated and enriched by the trophies of Marlborough, but I exhort them to confider the Fairy Queen as the mojl precious jewel of their coronet." If this lively metaphor is juji... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...family is still revered, by the sovereign and the people, as the lively image of the wisest of mankind. The nobility of the Spencers has been illustrated...Marlborough; but I exhort them to consider the Fairy 2>ueen as the most precious jewel of their coronet. I have exposed my private feelings, as I shall... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1805 - 440 pages
...John Spenfer or ' Spencer of Althorpe in North* The nobility of the Spencers has. been illuftrated and enriched by the trophies of Marlborough ; but I exhort them to confider the Fairy Queen as the moft precious jewel of their coronet. Gibbotn's Memo irs of his own... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 394 pages
...powers of description, may be thought to resemble Cowper.— -The passage I allude to is this ;-rr** The nobility of the Spencers " has been illustrated...the "•• trophies of Marlborough, but I exhort ' i them to consider the Fairy Queen as the "most precious jewel of their coronet." If this lively... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 528 pages
...of Spencer, of which himself was the greatest honour. " The nobility of the Spencers (says Gibbon) has been illustrated and enriched by the trophies of Marlborough ; but I exhort them to consider the Faery Queen as the most precious jewel of their coronet." He was admitted, in 1569, at Pembroke-hall,... | |
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The nobility of the Spencers has been illustrated and enriched by the trophies of Marlborough ; but I exhort them to consider the Fairy Queen* as the most precious jewel of their coronet. 
