The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 1William Pickering, 1839 - English poetry |
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... passe ) with the great admiration and won- derment of the whole countrey : being indeede re- puted matchable in all points , both for conceyte of witte and eloquent decyphering of matters , either with Aristophanes and Menander in Greek ...
... passe ) with the great admiration and won- derment of the whole countrey : being indeede re- puted matchable in all points , both for conceyte of witte and eloquent decyphering of matters , either with Aristophanes and Menander in Greek ...
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... passe unsaluted , " and thus a late atonement was made to the memory of " the matchlesse image of honor , and magnificent re- warder of virtue , Jove's eagle - born Ganymede thrice noble Amyntas . " Another argument appears to prove ...
... passe unsaluted , " and thus a late atonement was made to the memory of " the matchlesse image of honor , and magnificent re- warder of virtue , Jove's eagle - born Ganymede thrice noble Amyntas . " Another argument appears to prove ...
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... passe . " Faerie Queene , vi . x . 25 . Some biographers have asserted , that having lost his first wife , the courtship of a second gave rise to the Amoretti ; but Mr. Todd feels con- vinced that he was a bachelor before he married his ...
... passe . " Faerie Queene , vi . x . 25 . Some biographers have asserted , that having lost his first wife , the courtship of a second gave rise to the Amoretti ; but Mr. Todd feels con- vinced that he was a bachelor before he married his ...
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... 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 passe , with pleasure forward led , 28 C. I THE FIRST BOOK OF.
... 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 passe , with pleasure forward led , 28 C. I THE FIRST BOOK OF.
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Edmund Spenser. And foorth they passe , with pleasure forward led , Ioying to heare the birdes sweete harmony , Which , therein shrouded from the tempest dred , Seemd in their song to scorne the cruell sky . Much can they praise the ...
Edmund Spenser. And foorth they passe , with pleasure forward led , Ioying to heare the birdes sweete harmony , Which , therein shrouded from the tempest dred , Seemd in their song to scorne the cruell sky . Much can they praise 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...