The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 1William Pickering, 1839 - English poetry |
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... Heaven : -and if an heritage Remain still unappropriate , then shall he Claim it by right , upon whose princely page Are written deeds of love and chivalry ; And Spenser's name , on fame's enduring stage Emblazon'd stand , amid the ...
... Heaven : -and if an heritage Remain still unappropriate , then shall he Claim it by right , upon whose princely page Are written deeds of love and chivalry ; And Spenser's name , on fame's enduring stage Emblazon'd stand , amid the ...
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... Heaven ' beeing used shorte as one sillable when it is in verse , stretched out with a diastole , is like a lame dogge that holds up one legge . But it is to be wonne with custome , and rough wordes must be subdued with use . For why ...
... Heaven ' beeing used shorte as one sillable when it is in verse , stretched out with a diastole , is like a lame dogge that holds up one legge . But it is to be wonne with custome , and rough wordes must be subdued with use . For why ...
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Edmund Spenser. How should I you commend , when eyther one All things in heaven and earth so far excell . The highest praise that I can give is this , That one of you like to the other is . " In the same year the Prothalamion , a spousal ...
Edmund Spenser. How should I you commend , when eyther one All things in heaven and earth so far excell . The highest praise that I can give is this , That one of you like to the other is . " In the same year the Prothalamion , a spousal ...
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... heavens light did hide , Not perceable with power of any starr : And all within were pathes and alleies wide , With footing worne , and leading inward farre : Faire harbour that them seems ; so in they entred ar . 7 And foorth they ...
... heavens light did hide , Not perceable with power of any starr : And all within were pathes and alleies wide , With footing worne , and leading inward farre : Faire harbour that them seems ; so in they entred ar . 7 And foorth they ...
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... heaven accurst , Devoure their dam ; on whom while so he gazd , Having all satisfide their bloudy thurst , Their bellies swolne he saw with fulnesse burst , And bowels gushing forth : Well worthy end Of such , as drunke her life , the ...
... heaven accurst , Devoure their dam ; on whom while so he gazd , Having all satisfide their bloudy thurst , Their bellies swolne he saw with fulnesse burst , And bowels gushing forth : Well worthy end Of such , as drunke her life , the ...
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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...