The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 1William Pickering, 1839 - English poetry |
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... delighted to honour : - " Sisters of spotlesse fame ! of whom alone Malitiouse tongues take pleasure to speak well , Supplement to the Apology , p . 21 , and also p . 29 , 33 , 83 . See also Herbert's Typ . Ant . vol . ii . p . 1275 ...
... delighted to honour : - " Sisters of spotlesse fame ! of whom alone Malitiouse tongues take pleasure to speak well , Supplement to the Apology , p . 21 , and also p . 29 , 33 , 83 . See also Herbert's Typ . Ant . vol . ii . p . 1275 ...
Page li
... delight ; and * See Upton's Spenser , Notes , vol . ii . p . 354. Spence , in his Polymetis , has pointed out the mistakes and errors in the mythological allusions , v . Dial . xix . + See Dr. Sewell's remark given in Chalmers ' Suppl ...
... delight ; and * See Upton's Spenser , Notes , vol . ii . p . 354. Spence , in his Polymetis , has pointed out the mistakes and errors in the mythological allusions , v . Dial . xix . + See Dr. Sewell's remark given in Chalmers ' Suppl ...
Page lix
... delight with which the Gerusalem inspired him . From Ariosto he is content to borrow a few lines . He not only imitates , but works whole passages translated from Tasso into his own book . " See Black's Life of Tasso , vol . ii . p . in ...
... delight with which the Gerusalem inspired him . From Ariosto he is content to borrow a few lines . He not only imitates , but works whole passages translated from Tasso into his own book . " See Black's Life of Tasso , vol . ii . p . in ...
Page lxii
... delight . I need not say , that the allegory is to be forgotten , and I must admit that the love affairs and combats are almost as uni- form as honour battles . In this respect it resembles all other tales of chivalry : but the tale is ...
... delight . I need not say , that the allegory is to be forgotten , and I must admit that the love affairs and combats are almost as uni- form as honour battles . In this respect it resembles all other tales of chivalry : but the tale is ...
Page lxiii
... delight us when our senses are flurried by passion , must not be submitted to our cool and deliberate ex- amination . A ghost must not be dragged into daylight . Personification protracted into allegory , affects a modern reader almost ...
... delight us when our senses are flurried by passion , must not be submitted to our cool and deliberate ex- amination . A ghost must not be dragged into daylight . Personification protracted into allegory , affects a modern reader almost ...
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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...