The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 2C. C. Little and J. Brown, 1839 |
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... Soone as he Guyon saw , in great affright And haste he rose for to remove aside Those pretious hils from straungers envious sight , And downe them poured through an hole full wide Into the hollow earth , them there to hide : But Guyon ...
... Soone as he Guyon saw , in great affright And haste he rose for to remove aside Those pretious hils from straungers envious sight , And downe them poured through an hole full wide Into the hollow earth , them there to hide : But Guyon ...
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... Soone as he entred was , the dore streightway Did shutt , and from behind it forth there lept An Ugly Feend , more fowle then 2 dismall day ; The which with monstrous stalke behind him stept , And ever as he went dew watch upon him kept ...
... Soone as he entred was , the dore streightway Did shutt , and from behind it forth there lept An Ugly Feend , more fowle then 2 dismall day ; The which with monstrous stalke behind him stept , And ever as he went dew watch upon him kept ...
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... Soone as those glitterand armes he did espye , That with their brightnesse made that darknes light , His harmefull club he gan to hurtle 7 hye , And threaten batteill to the Faery Knight ; Who likewise gan himselfe to batteill dight , 1 ...
... Soone as those glitterand armes he did espye , That with their brightnesse made that darknes light , His harmefull club he gan to hurtle 7 hye , And threaten batteill to the Faery Knight ; Who likewise gan himselfe to batteill dight , 1 ...
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... earth might suffred be to stay : So backe againe him brought to living light . 1 Lust , avarice . 2 Forthy , therefore . 3 Then , than . But all so soone as his enfeebled spright Gan sucke 30 B. II . THE FAERIE QUEENE .
... earth might suffred be to stay : So backe againe him brought to living light . 1 Lust , avarice . 2 Forthy , therefore . 3 Then , than . But all so soone as his enfeebled spright Gan sucke 30 B. II . THE FAERIE QUEENE .
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Edmund Spenser George Stillman Hillard. But all so soone as his enfeebled spright Gan sucke this vitall ayre into his brest , As overcome with too exceeding might , The life did flit away out of her nest , And all his sences were with ...
Edmund Spenser George Stillman Hillard. But all so soone as his enfeebled spright Gan sucke this vitall ayre into his brest , As overcome with too exceeding might , The life did flit away out of her nest , And all his sences were with ...
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armes batteill beast bold Bowre brest bright Britomart Britons brought canto carcas chaunge corage courser cruell Dame Damzell daunger deare death despight devize Dight dismayd doth dreadfull Earst Eftsoones emongst ensample eternall evermore FAERIE QUEENE Faery Faery Knight faire faire Ladies fayre feare fearefull feendes Florimell flowre Forthy fowle fownd gentle goodly Gorlois griefe groning grownd Guyon hand hart hath herselfe heven Hight himselfe Hippodames huge Knight Lady late light living Malbecco Mayd mighty mote nigh noble nought Paridell powre prayse Prince rowme ryde Satyrane sayd seemd shame shee shield sight Sith sonne soone sore soveraine speare Spenser spide spright Squyre stanza steed straunge sunne sweet thee thou traveill trew unto vaine Villein warlike weene weet whenas Whylome wicked wight wize wondrous wonne wound wyde XLVII XXXIII
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Page 153 - Eftsoones they heard a most melodious sound, Of all that mote delight a daintie eare, Such as attonce might not on living ground, Save in this Paradise, be heard elsewhere : Right hard it was for wight which did it heare, To read what manner musicke that mote bee ; For all that pleasing is to living eare Was there consorted in one harmonee ; Birdes, voices, instruments, windes, waters, all agree ; The joyous birdes, shrouded in chearefull shade, Their notes unto the voice attempred sweet ; Th...
Page 32 - And is there care in Heaven ? and is there love In heavenly spirits to these creatures base, That may compassion of their evils move ? There is...
Page 154 - And all that while, right over him she hong, With her false eyes fast fixed in his sight, As seeking medicine, whence she was stong, Or greedily depasturing delight : And oft inclining downe with kisses light, For feare of waking him, his lips bedewd, And through his humid eyes did sucke his spright, Quite molten into lust and pleasure lewd ; Wherewith she sighed soft, as if his case she rewd.
Page 26 - Their fruit were golden apples glistring bright, That goodly was their glory to behold, On earth like never grew, ne living wight Like ever saw, but they from hence were sold; For those, which Hercules with conquest bold Got from great Atlas daughters, hence began, And planted there, did bring forth fruit of gold; And those, with which th' Euboean young man wan Swift Atalanta, when through craft he her out ran.
Page 155 - That fairer seemes the lesse ye see her may ! Lo ! see soone after how more bold and free Her bared bosome she doth broad display ! Lo ! see soone after how she fades and falls away...
Page 153 - Right hard it was for wight which did it heare, To read what manner musicke that mote bee ; For all that pleasing is to living eare Was there consorted in one harmonee ; Birdes, voices, instruments, windes, waters, all agree ; The joyous birdes, shrouded in chearefull shade, Their notes unto the voice attempred sweet ; Th' Angelicall soft trembling voyces made To th...
Page 17 - Such as a lamp, whose life does fade away; Or as the moone, cloathed with clowdy night, Does shew to him that walkes in feare and sad affright.
Page 115 - As pale and wan as ashes was his looke; His body leane and meagre as a rake; And skin all withered like a dryed rooke; Thereto as cold and drery as a snake ; That seemd to tremble evermore and quake: All in a canvas thin he was bedight, And girded with a belt of twisted brake: Upon his head he wore an helmet light, Made of a dead mans skull, that seemd a ghastly sight: XXIII.
Page 291 - Daily they grow, and daily forth are sent Into the world, it to replenish more; Yet is the stocke not lessened nor spent, But still remaines in everlasting store, As it at first created was of yore...
Page 170 - All suddenly out of the thickest brush, Upon a milkwhite Palfrey all alone, A goodly Lady did foreby2 them rush, Whose face did seeme as cleare as Christall stone, And eke through feare as white as whales bone: Her garments all were wrought of beaten gold, And all her steed with tinsell trappings shone, Which fledd so fast, that nothing mote him hold, And scarse them leasure gave, her passing to behold.