The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 1William Pickering, 1839 - English poetry |
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Page xxiv
... brought himself into the mighty man's displeasure . B. vi . c . xii . st . 41. " He now seems glad to curry favour , and methinks goes a little out of his way in making himself a party man , by abusing the memory of this unhappy Queen ...
... brought himself into the mighty man's displeasure . B. vi . c . xii . st . 41. " He now seems glad to curry favour , and methinks goes a little out of his way in making himself a party man , by abusing the memory of this unhappy Queen ...
Page xliv
... brought them , " That he was sure he had no time to spend them . ” * What be- came of the wife and children of Spenser imme- diately subsequent to his death , is not known . Mr. G. Chalmers says , " that his searches at Doctors ...
... brought them , " That he was sure he had no time to spend them . ” * What be- came of the wife and children of Spenser imme- diately subsequent to his death , is not known . Mr. G. Chalmers says , " that his searches at Doctors ...
Page lvi
... brought to the subject of the Fairy Queen ' a new and enlarged structure of stanza , elaborate and intri- cate , but well contrived for sustaining the atten- tion of the ear , and concluding with a majestic cadence . In the other poets ...
... brought to the subject of the Fairy Queen ' a new and enlarged structure of stanza , elaborate and intri- cate , but well contrived for sustaining the atten- tion of the ear , and concluding with a majestic cadence . In the other poets ...
Page lxx
... brought together as to entitle the Fairy Queen to be called a regular poem , may justly be doubted . I con- fess I think it probable that the difficulty of concluding his celestial able auspices , perhaps this would have been the lxx ...
... brought together as to entitle the Fairy Queen to be called a regular poem , may justly be doubted . I con- fess I think it probable that the difficulty of concluding his celestial able auspices , perhaps this would have been the lxx ...
Page 7
... brought up , so soone as he was borne of the Lady Igrayne , to have seene in a dream or vision the Faery Queene , with whose excellent beauty ravished , he awaking resolved to seeke her out ; and so being by Merlin armed , and by Timon ...
... brought up , so soone as he was borne of the Lady Igrayne , to have seene in a dream or vision the Faery Queene , with whose excellent beauty ravished , he awaking resolved to seeke her out ; and so being by Merlin armed , and by Timon ...
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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...