The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 1William Pickering, 1839 - English poetry |
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Page iii
... things , done probably when Spenser was young , accord- ing to the taste of the time for Emblems ; and as the Theatre for Worldlings presents a series of emblems , Mr. Todd supposes that the Visions in that book , the Dreames commended ...
... things , done probably when Spenser was young , accord- ing to the taste of the time for Emblems ; and as the Theatre for Worldlings presents a series of emblems , Mr. Todd supposes that the Visions in that book , the Dreames commended ...
Page xiii
... thing can be added to the loftinesse of his con- ceite , whom gentle Mistresse Rosalinde once re- ported to have all the intelligences at commande- ment , and an other time christened him Segnior Pegaso . " So enamoured was Harvey of ...
... thing can be added to the loftinesse of his con- ceite , whom gentle Mistresse Rosalinde once re- ported to have all the intelligences at commande- ment , and an other time christened him Segnior Pegaso . " So enamoured was Harvey of ...
Page xxxii
... thing so meet , as these sweete - conceited Sonnets , the deede of that well - deserving gentleman , Maister Ed- munde Spenser , whose name sufficiently warranting the authorism of the work , I do more confidently presume to publish in ...
... thing so meet , as these sweete - conceited Sonnets , the deede of that well - deserving gentleman , Maister Ed- munde Spenser , whose name sufficiently warranting the authorism of the work , I do more confidently presume to publish in ...
Page xxxv
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 ...
Page lvii
... things , a sweeter tone of sentiment , or a finer flush in the colour of language than in this Rubens + of En- glish poetry . His fancy teems exuberantly in mi- nuteness of circumstance , like a fertile soil sending bloom and verdure ...
... things , a sweeter tone of sentiment , or a finer flush in the colour of language than in this Rubens + of En- glish poetry . His fancy teems exuberantly in mi- nuteness of circumstance , like a fertile soil sending bloom and verdure ...
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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...