This lip-loosener was always my fave, if not Mel Gibson's:
Curse on that Crosse (quoth then the Sarazin)
That keepes thy body from the bitter fitŠ.
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>I'm a sucker for the most obvious harmonies. My
>favorite line (doesn't everybody have at least
>one?) has always been "The Eugh obedient to the
>bender's will," because I really do sense the
>combination of resistance and obedience in the
>play between the dipthong, emphasized by
>orthography, of "eugh" as it modulates into the
>long "o" of "obedient," and the remarkable
>series of vowells and consonants that follows.
>I feel both the bender's will and the eugh's
>resistant bending together in that line.
>
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>David Lee Miller
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>From: Sidney-Spenser Discussion List
>[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
>Of Germaine Warkentin
>Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 1:49 PM
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>Subject: Noises in Spenser
>
>Now here's an idea for a new thread. I've been
>reading Northrop Frye's Diaries 1942-1955 as a
>prelude to writing the headnotes and
>introduction to a volume of his collected works
>(the "Early Critical Writings, 1933-63"), and on
>Monday, March 20, 1950, he writes as follows:
>
>"The graduate group went very smoothly, with a
>lot of absentees, but for once I got somewhere
>near Spenser. It was just the straight stuff
>about the rhetorical allegory, or decorum, being
>largely a matter of imitative harmony, the sound
>being an echo of the sense. Also all of the
>funny noises in Spenser."
>
>Have we ever given any thought to funny noises
>in Spenser? If not, we clearly have some
>catching up to do. Germaine.
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