The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 1William Pickering, 1839 - English poetry |
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Page xxi
... grace was great , and bounty most rewardfull . So what with hope of good , and hate of ill , He me perswaded forth with him to fare . So to the sea we came , & c . " Raleigh afterwards introduced him to the Queen , who listened to his ...
... grace was great , and bounty most rewardfull . So what with hope of good , and hate of ill , He me perswaded forth with him to fare . So to the sea we came , & c . " Raleigh afterwards introduced him to the Queen , who listened to his ...
Page xxvi
... grace , yet want her Peeres . " But Spenser , at the close of the sixth book of the Faerie Queene , denies that he has reflected in any of his writings on this mighty peer , ' as he calls him : 6 " Ne may this homely verse , of many ...
... grace , yet want her Peeres . " But Spenser , at the close of the sixth book of the Faerie Queene , denies that he has reflected in any of his writings on this mighty peer , ' as he calls him : 6 " Ne may this homely verse , of many ...
Page lvii
... grace of his manner still abide by him . He is like a speaker whose tones continue to be pleasing though he may speak too long . Or like a painter , who makes us forget the de- + The old lady to whom Pope read the Fairy Queen said he ...
... grace of his manner still abide by him . He is like a speaker whose tones continue to be pleasing though he may speak too long . Or like a painter , who makes us forget the de- + The old lady to whom Pope read the Fairy Queen said he ...
Page lxi
... strains , and the new contour and enlarged dimensions of grace which he gave to English poetry . He is the poetical father of a Milton and a Thomson . Gray ha- bitually read him , when he wished to frame his EDMUND SPENSER . lxi.
... strains , and the new contour and enlarged dimensions of grace which he gave to English poetry . He is the poetical father of a Milton and a Thomson . Gray ha- bitually read him , when he wished to frame his EDMUND SPENSER . lxi.
Page lxiv
... grace , divine wisdom , the holy virgin , or eternal beatitude , at none of which obstinate heretics can ever arrive . The Chemists pretended , that it was the philosophers ' stone . The Civilians , that it was the most consummate point ...
... grace , divine wisdom , the holy virgin , or eternal beatitude , at none of which obstinate heretics can ever arrive . The Chemists pretended , that it was the philosophers ' stone . The Civilians , that it was the most consummate point ...
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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...