The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 1William Pickering, 1839 - English poetry |
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... blood , " whom Spenser calls " Dido , " and whose death he laments , Mr. Malone believes to have been an illegitimate daughter of Robert , Earl of Leicester , by Douglas Howard , Lady Sheffield , the widow of John , the second Lord ...
... blood , " whom Spenser calls " Dido , " and whose death he laments , Mr. Malone believes to have been an illegitimate daughter of Robert , Earl of Leicester , by Douglas Howard , Lady Sheffield , the widow of John , the second Lord ...
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... blood , a want for which nothing can com- pensate . The personification of abstract ideas furnishes the most brilliant images of poetry ; but these meteor - forms which startle and delight us when our senses are flurried by passion ...
... blood , a want for which nothing can com- pensate . The personification of abstract ideas furnishes the most brilliant images of poetry ; but these meteor - forms which startle and delight us when our senses are flurried by passion ...
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... blood forth gushed from her corse . Her scattred brood , soone as their Parent deare 25 They saw so rudely falling to the ground , Groning full deadly all with troublous feare Gathred themselves about her body round , Weening their ...
... blood forth gushed from her corse . Her scattred brood , soone as their Parent deare 25 They saw so rudely falling to the ground , Groning full deadly all with troublous feare Gathred themselves about her body round , Weening their ...
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... blood , and for her tender youth . And sayd , " Ah Sir , my liege Lord , and my love , Shall I accuse the hidden cruell Fate , And mightie causes wrought in heaven above , Or the blind God , that doth me thus amate , For hoped love to ...
... blood , and for her tender youth . And sayd , " Ah Sir , my liege Lord , and my love , Shall I accuse the hidden cruell Fate , And mightie causes wrought in heaven above , Or the blind God , that doth me thus amate , For hoped love to ...
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... blood . At last dull wearines of former fight Having yrockt asleepe his irkesome spright , That troublous dreame gan freshly tosse his braine With bowres , and beds , and Ladies deare delight : But , when he saw his labour all was vaine ...
... blood . At last dull wearines of former fight Having yrockt asleepe his irkesome spright , That troublous dreame gan freshly tosse his braine With bowres , and beds , and Ladies deare delight : But , when he saw his labour all was vaine ...
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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...