The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 1William Pickering, 1839 - English poetry |
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... knight's honour was unnecessary , or he considered that poem to have been written by his son . * The dedication to the Pastoral called " Co- lin Clouts come home again , ' to Sir Walter Raleigh , bears date December 27 , 1591 ; but that ...
... knight's honour was unnecessary , or he considered that poem to have been written by his son . * The dedication to the Pastoral called " Co- lin Clouts come home again , ' to Sir Walter Raleigh , bears date December 27 , 1591 ; but that ...
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... Knight in dangerous distress , is Henry IV . of France ; and the Knight of Magnificence , Prince Arthur , the son of Uther Pendragon , an ancient British hero , is the bulwark of the Protestant cause in the Netherlands . Such ...
... Knight in dangerous distress , is Henry IV . of France ; and the Knight of Magnificence , Prince Arthur , the son of Uther Pendragon , an ancient British hero , is the bulwark of the Protestant cause in the Netherlands . Such ...
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... Knights the Patrones , for the more variety of the history : Of which these three Bookes contayn three . The first of the ... Knight , in whome I picture Chastity . But , because the beginning of the whole Worke seemeth abrupte and as ...
... Knights the Patrones , for the more variety of the history : Of which these three Bookes contayn three . The first of the ... Knight , in whome I picture Chastity . But , because the beginning of the whole Worke seemeth abrupte and as ...
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... Knights , are in these xii . Books severally handled and discoursed . The first was this . In the beginning of the feast ... Knight , and his speare in the Dwarfes hand . Shee , falling before the Queene of Faeries , complayned that her ...
... Knights , are in these xii . Books severally handled and discoursed . The first was this . In the beginning of the feast ... Knight , and his speare in the Dwarfes hand . Shee , falling before the Queene of Faeries , complayned that her ...
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... Knight was pricking on the playne , & c . The second day there came in a Palmer bearing an In- fant with bloody hands , whose parents he complained to have bene slayn by an Enchantresse called Acrasia : and therefore craved of the Faery ...
... Knight was pricking on the playne , & c . The second day there came in a Palmer bearing an In- fant with bloody hands , whose parents he complained to have bene slayn by an Enchantresse called Acrasia : and therefore craved of the Faery ...
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Archimago armes Beast behold blood brest brond brought CANTO chaunce corage courser cruell Dame deadly deare death delight despight doen doest doth dread dreadfull Duessa EDMUND SPENSER Eftsoones Elfin Knight eternall Faerie Queene Faery Knight faire faire Lady Fairy false fast fayre feare fitt flowre fowle fownd gentle goodly grace griefe grone hand hart hast hath heaven heavenly hight himselfe honour Lady late light litle living Lord mightie mote never nigh noble nought poem poet powre Pyrochles quoth rage Redcrosse Redcrosse Knight seemd seeme sence shee Shepheards Calender shew shield shyning sight Sir Guyon Sir Philip Sidney Sith sonne soone sore speach Spenser spide spright steed suddein sweet syre thee thereof thou Todd trew unto vaine verse vertues Villein wandring warre wearie weene whenas wight wondrous wonne wont wound wrath wretched wyde ydle yron
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Page 61 - O then too weake and feeble was the forse 370 Of salvage beast, his puissance to withstand: For he was strong, and of so mightie corse, As ever wielded speare in warlike hand, And feates of armes did wisely understand. Eftsoones he perced through his chaufed chest...