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“After a while I got hungry and went to the kitchen. There was nothing to eat. I drank another beer and looked again, and found half a loaf of whole wheat bread behind the beer in the back of the refrigerator...”

Food Beer Detectives Spenser

Book:Mortal Stakes

Source: Mortal Stakes

“Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare , rise; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser , or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room; Thou art a monument, without a tomb, And art alive still, while thy book doth live, And we have wits to read , and praise to give .”

Giving Littles Art Stills Book Soul Age Lying Rooms Wonder Alive Stage Praise Delight Wit Thee Monument Applause Tombs Lodges Chaucer Spenser

Book:Ben Jonson

Source: Ben Jonson

“Immortal Spenser, no frailty hath thy fame but the imputation of this idiot's friendship!”

Fame Idiot Immortal Frailty Spenser

Author:Thomas Nashe

“All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay, and present praise. Lord Burleigh is not the only statesman who has thought one hundred pounds too much for a song, though sung by Spenser; although Oliver Goldsmith is the only poet who ever considered himself to have been overpaid.”

Writing Has Beens Whole Song Pay Lord Too Much Poet Hundred Praise Immortality Pounds Tribes Statesmen Objections Spenser

Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“The church itself has got to go outside of its own borders and carry the gospel to ev'ry creature, or it is no church of Christ; and any mutual improvement club which thinks that by reading its Shakspearo, or by acting its pretty tableaux, or by having. this or that little reading from Spenser and from Chaucer, it is going to lift itself up into any higher order of culture or life, is wholly mistaken, unless as an essential part of its duty, it goes out into the world, finds those that are falling down, and lifts them up to the majesty of freemen, who are sons of God.”

“Even the best critical writing on Emily Dickinson underestimates her. She is frightening. To come to her directly from Dante, Spenser, Blake, and Baudelaire is to find her sadomasochism obvious and flagrant. Birds, bees, and amputated hands are the dizzy stuff of this poetry. Dickinson is like the homosexual cultist draping himself in black leather and chains to bring the idea of masculinity into aggressive visibility.”

Writing Ideas Hands Stuff Black Bird Obvious Critical Chains Aggressive Frightening Bees Homosexual Underestimate Masculinity Leather Emily Blake Dizzy Visibility Baudelaire Spenser

Author:Camille Paglia

“Natalie Spenser was giving a dinner. She was not an easy hostess.”

Giving Book Easy Dinner Hostesses Spenser

Author:Mary Roberts Rinehart

“The light of genius never sets, but sheds itself upon other faces, in different hues of splendor. Homer glows in the softened beauty of Virgil, and Spenser revives in the decorated learning of Gray.”

Different Light Faces Genius Gray Shed Splendor Revive Hue Spenser

Book:Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature

Source: Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature

“A book becomes a mirror, with the author's face shining over it. Talent only gives an imperfect image,--the broken glimmer of a countenance. But the features of genius remain unruffled. Time guards the shadow. Beauty, the spiritual, Venus,--whose children are the Tassos, the Spensers, the Bacons,--breathes, the magic of her love, and fixes the face forever.”

Giving Children Book Faces Spiritual Forever Magic Talent Broken Genius Shadow Mirrors Shining Breathe Features Over It Imperfect Countenance Venus Spenser

Author:Robert Aris Willmott

“If you read only the best, you will have no need of reading the other books, because the latter are nothing but a rehash of the best and the oldest. To read Shakespeare, Plato, Dante, Milton, Spenser, Chaucer, and their compeers in prose, is to read in condensed form what all others have diluted.”

Ifs Needs Book Form Reading Prose Latter Reading Books Plato Milton Chaucer Spenser

Author:Anna Brackett

“I don't want to dis anybody, but someone like Robert Parker. I first read a Spenser book maybe 20 years ago and then read every one that came out. I did that with Tony Hillerman too.”

Want Years Firsts Book Years Ago Spenser

Author:Dave Barry

“Yeah. Floyd is his batman." His what?" Batman, like in the British army, each officer had a batman, a personal servant." You spend too much time reading, Spenser. You know more stuff that don't make you money than anybody I know.”

Knows Reading Stuff Too Much Army Yeah British Servant Officers British Army Spenser

Book:Mortal Stakes

Source: Mortal Stakes

“You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better - the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read.”

Ifs Love Firsts Dream Hands Would Be Asks Poor Business Fool Conversation Experience Personal Experiences Been In Love Austen Bronte Spenser First Hand Experience

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Conrad placed on the title page an epigraph taken from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene: "Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please" This also became Conrad's epitaph.”

Doe Sleep Taken Sea Please Pages Titles Ease Port Faerie Epitaph Spenser Epigraphs

Author:Joseph Conrad

“A. E. Maxwell wrote one of the smartest, most consistent PI series in recent memory. Big plots, great villains, and a kickass private eye with plenty of humanity. The toughness of Robert B. Parker's early Spenser novels blended with the wry humor and scope of Ross Thomas. Wholly original, endlessly entertaining. The books of A. E. Maxwell are a forgotten treasure.”

Book Bigs Eye Humanity Memories Novel Originals Series Forgotten Treasure Plenty Consistent Plot Villain Entertaining Scope Toughness Wry Maxwell Spenser Kickass

Author:Tim Maleeny