 Of the persons who read the first canto, not one in ten reaches the end of the first book, and not one in a hundred perseveres to the end of the poem. Very few and very weary are those who are in at the death of the  The Calcutta University Calendar - Стр. clxixавторы: University of Calcutta - 1881Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Edmund Spenser - 1900 - Страниц: 436
...ten reaches the end of the First Book, and not one in a hundred perseveres to the end of the poem. Very few and very weary are those who are in at the death of the Blatant Beast. If the last six books, which are said [without any authority] to have been destroyed in Ireland, had... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - Страниц: 446
...ten reaches the end of the first book, and not one in a hundred perseveres to the end of the poem. Very few and very weary are those who are in at the death of the Blatant Beast. If the last six books, which are said to have been destroyed in Ireland, had been preserved, we doubt... | |
 | 1901 - Страниц: 1244
...Kate M. Warren. 6 vols. Westminster, Archibald Constable & Co., 1897 — 1900. Price i s. 6 d. each. Very few and very weary are those who are in at the death of the Blatant Beast (am ende des letzten buchs), — das war das urteil Macaulay's über den eindruck von Spenser's Faerie... | |
 | 1901 - Страниц: 544
...Kate M. Warren. 6 vols. Westminster, Archibald Constable & Co., 1897 — 1900. Price i s. 6 d. each. Very few and very weary are those who are in at the death of the Blatant Beast (am ende des letzten buchs), — das war das urteil Macaulay's über den eindruck von Spenser's Faerie... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - Страниц: 450
...ten reaches the end of the first book, and not one in a hundred perseveres to the end of the poem. Very few and very weary are those who are in at the death of the Blatant Beast. If the last six books, which are said to have been destroyed in Ireland, had been preserved, we doubt... | |
 | Augustus De Morgan - 1902 - Страниц: 54
...short) of the Pilgrim's Progress, speaking of the tediousness of the Fairy Queen, he _J observes that "very few and very weary are those who are in at the death of the Blatant Beast." The reviewer himself, no doubt one of the few, was also one of the weary; for the blatant beast is... | |
 | Eugen Kölbing, Johannes Hoops, Reinald Hoops - 1902 - Страниц: 502
...Westminster, Archibald Constable & Co., 1897 — 1900. Price i s. 6 d. each. Very few and very u'eary are those who are in at the death of the Blatant Beast (am ende des letzten buchs), — das war das urteil Macaulay's über den eindruck von Spenser's Faerie... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - Страниц: 666
...*IHd. bk. ii., canto 9. of the first book, and not one in a hundred perseveres to the end of the poem. Very few and very weary are those who are in at the death of the Blatant Beast.1 If the last six books, which are said to have been destroyed in Ireland,2 had been preserved,... | |
 | Sir Sidney Lee - 1904 - Страниц: 388
...ten reaches the end of the first book, and not one in a hundred perseveres to the end of the poem. Very few and very weary are those who are in at the end, at the death of the Blatant Beast.' This criticism only seems just with qualifications, and it... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1905 - Страниц: 492
...morality? What drawbacks are there to the enjoyment of the Faerie Queene? What does Macaulay mean by saying "Very few and very weary are those who are in at the death of the Blatant Beast" (which, however, does not die)? Is this a damaging criticism? Compare Despair and his cave (I. ix.)... | |
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