 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
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...ten reaches the end of the first book, and not one in a hundred perseveres to the end 25 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... | |
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...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." — Lord JIacaulay, Essays, " Bunyan." When I first took up The Faery Queen, I read it, to the exclusion... | |
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