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Parallelisms: Spenser’s Influence

lofty pitch ◊6
Spenser, CMP: TM, 394 (1908, 76)
“Unto so loftie pitch of perfectnesse,”

eternal night ◊7
Spenser, CMP: RR, 5.8 (1908, 109)
“By magicke skill out of eternall night:”

Spenser, FQ, 1.3.12.3-4 (1908, 160)
“whereas her mother blynd / Sate in eternall night:”

Spenser, FQ, 4.7.33.6 (1908, 465)
“Lay hid in horrour of eternall night;”

Spenser, FQ, 7.6.14.7 (1908, 662)
“And brought againe on them eternall night:”

horned moon ◊7
Spenser, FQ, 4.6.43.9 (1908, 460)
“But till the horned moone three courses did expire.”

mild aspect ◊7
Spenser, CMP: RT, 563 (1908, 67)
“Of milde aspect, and haire as soft as silke,”

Spenser, FQ, 3.6.2.3 (1908, 366)
“Looking with myld aspect upon the earth”

Spenser, FQ, 3.12.14.3 (1908, 412)
“For she was gentle and of milde aspect,”

Spenser, FQ, 5.9.35.9 (1908, 559)
“And with more myld aspect those two to entertake.”

orient pearl ◊7
Spenser, FQ, 2.12.78.5 (1908, 323)
“That like pure orient perles adowne it trild;”

Spenser, FQ, 3.7.9.3 (1908, 374)
“That like to orient perles did purely shyne”

lofty towers ◊7
Spenser, PRO, 1173 (1908, 105)
“And lifted up his loftie towres thereby,”

Spenser, FQ, 1.4.4.6 (1908, 165)
“High lifted up were many loftie towres,”

Spenser, FQ, 1.8.9.7 (1908, 193)
“Both loftie towres and highest trees hath rent,”

Spenser, FQ, 1.10.56.8 (1908, 214)
“Her lofty towres unto the starry sphere,”

dreadful things ◊7
Spenser, FQ, 3.12.36.3 (1908, 415)
“Full dreadfull thinges out of that balefull booke”