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" Then gin I thinke on that which Nature sayd, Of that same time when no more Change shall be. But stedfast rest of all things firmely stayd Upon the pillours of Eternity... "
The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser - Page 165
by Edmund Spenser - 1839
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The Spenser Encyclopedia

Albert Charles Hamilton - 1997 - 884 pages
...'The rest, untold, no living tongue can speake' may be a first expression of the poet's longing for 'that same time when no more Change shall be, / But...things firmely stayd / Upon the pillours of Eternity' (FQ vn viii). By this view, Spenser's Queen and her gifted coterie of true believers may preserve a...
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On Poets and Others

Octavio Paz - 1990 - 244 pages
...proportion in all that is and that, as Edmund Spenser said, movement itself is an allegory of repose: That time when no more Change shall be, But stedfast rest of all things firmly stayd Upon the pillours of Eternity. —"Mutability Cantos" Because of this, his reflections...
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Metre, Rhythm and Verse Form

Philip Hobsbaum - 1996 - 220 pages
...steadfast rest of all things, firmly stayed Upon the pillars of eternity, That is contrare to mutability; For all that moveth doth in change delight: But thence-forth all shall rest eternally With Him that is the Cod of Sabbath hight: O! that great Sabbath Cod, grant me that Sabbath's sight. Spenser achieves his...
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"The White Horse" and Other Stories

Emilia Bazan - 1993 - 172 pages
...Mutability and the panoramic vision from Arlo-hill trigger a moment of epiphany and a turning toward "that same time when no more Change shall be, / But stedfast rest of all things firmly stayd / Vpon the pillours of Eternity" (viii.2.2-4). In his Anatomy of Criticism, Frye defines...
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Polliticke Courtier: Spenser's The Faerie Queene as a Rhetoric of Justice

Michael F. N. Dixon - 1996 - 260 pages
...(both object and conclusion) of all courtship where all estrangement is resolved: "For all that moueth doth in Change delight: / But thence-forth all shall rest eternally / With Him that the God of Sabboath hight" (viii.2.6-9). Concomitantly, the didactic purpose attributed to Fortuna...
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Death, Desire, and Loss in Western Culture

Jonathan Dollimore - 1998 - 424 pages
...steadfast rest of all things firmly stayed Upon the pillars of Eternity, That is contrair to Mutability: For, all that moveth, doth in Change delight: But thence-forth all shall rest eternally (V.proem, i, 6; VIII.2) Lovers who covet death: Castiglione's The Courtier I have remarked before how...
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La Renaissance, hier et aujourd'hui

Guy Poirier - 2002 - 244 pages
...répond aux besoins humains causés par la mutabilité : Then gin I thinke on that which Nature sayd Of that same time when no more change shall be, But stedfast rest of all things firmly stayd Upon the pillaurs of eternity, That is contrayr to mutabilitie. For all that moveth doth...
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Metamorphosis: The Changing Face of Ovid in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Alison Keith, Stephen Rupp, Stephen James Rupp - 2007 - 358 pages
...makes the poet, at the end of the profoundly Ovidian "Mutabilitie Cantos," yearn for a state of rest: when no more Change shall be, But stedfast rest of all things firmely stayd Vpon the pillours of Eternity, That is contrayr to Mutabilitie: For, all that moueth, doth in Change...
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