The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5William Pickering, 1839 - English poetry |
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... Nature see of Art Exceld , in perfect limming every part ? But ah ! beleeve me there is more then so , That workes such wonders in the minds of men ; I , that have often prov'd , too well it know , And who so list the like assayes to ...
... Nature see of Art Exceld , in perfect limming every part ? But ah ! beleeve me there is more then so , That workes such wonders in the minds of men ; I , that have often prov'd , too well it know , And who so list the like assayes to ...
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... nature good ; That is a sign to know the gentle blood . Yet oft it falles that many a gentle mynd Dwels in deformed tabernacle drownd , Either by chaunce , against the course of kynd , Or through unaptnesse in the substance fownd ...
... nature good ; That is a sign to know the gentle blood . Yet oft it falles that many a gentle mynd Dwels in deformed tabernacle drownd , Either by chaunce , against the course of kynd , Or through unaptnesse in the substance fownd ...
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... natures aime ; All which are made with wondrous wise respect , And all with admirable beautie deckt . First , th ' Earth , on Adamantine pillers founded Amid the Sea , engirt with brasen bands ; Then th ' Aire still flitting , but yet ...
... natures aime ; All which are made with wondrous wise respect , And all with admirable beautie deckt . First , th ' Earth , on Adamantine pillers founded Amid the Sea , engirt with brasen bands ; Then th ' Aire still flitting , but yet ...
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... dampish air , wherby al things are red ; Whose nature yet so much is marvelled Of mortall wits , that it doth much amaze The greatest Wisards which thereon do gaze . But that immortall light , which there doth shine , 34 HYMNES .
... dampish air , wherby al things are red ; Whose nature yet so much is marvelled Of mortall wits , that it doth much amaze The greatest Wisards which thereon do gaze . But that immortall light , which there doth shine , 34 HYMNES .
Page 48
... Nature had assembled All pleasure there , for which mans hart could long ; And there a noyse alluring sleepe soft trembled , Of manie accords more sweete than Mermaids song : The seates and benches shone as yvorie , And hundred Nymphes ...
... Nature had assembled All pleasure there , for which mans hart could long ; And there a noyse alluring sleepe soft trembled , Of manie accords more sweete than Mermaids song : The seates and benches shone as yvorie , And hundred Nymphes ...
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