 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...  The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser - Page 115by Edmund Spenser - 1839Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Spenser - Epic poetry, English - 1758 - 800 pages
...tremble evermore and quake: All in a canvas thin he was bedight, And girded with a belt of twifted brake ; Upon his head he wore an helmet light, Made of a dead mans fkull, that feemd a ghaftly fight : XXIII. Maleger was his name ; and after him There follow'd faft... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1758 - 574 pages
...evermore and quake : .' -. ' All in a canvas thin he was bedight, And girded with a belt of twifted brake* Upon his head he wore an helmet light Made of a dead mans fcull, that feem'da ghaflly. fight, XXIII. Alaleger was his name, and after him There follow'd faft... | |
 | Henry Headley - English poetry - 1787 - 232 pages
...Yet the firft of thefe terrific attributes is fuggefted by Spenfer, who has given it to Meleager: , Upon his head he wore an helmet light, Made of a dead man's fkull, that feem'il a ghaftly fight. ii B. 11 Can. St. 12. In the preceding part of this Canto... | |
 | English poetry - 1788 - 550 pages
...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, [sight. Made of a dead man's skull, that seemd a ghastly XXIII. Maleger was his name ; and after him... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 912 pages
...Yet the firft of thefe terrific attributes is Suggested by Spenfer, who has given it 'to Meleaftr: Upon his head he wore an helmet light, Made of a dead man's Skull, that feem'da ghaftly fight. B. II. Can. XI. St. 13. hut di%race Spenjfer. A painter of... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1805 - 554 pages
...tremble evermore and quake : All in a canvas thin he was bedight, And girded with a belt of twifted brake : Upon his head he wore an helmet light, Made of a dead mans fkull, that feemd a ghaftly fight: xxiir. Maleger was his name : And after him There follow'd faft... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1805 - 644 pages
...tremble evermore and quake : All in a canvas thin he was bedight, And girded with a belt of twilled brake : Upon his head he wore an helmet light, Made of a dead mans Ikull, that I'eemd a ghaftly light : XXIII. Maleger was his name ; And after him There follow'd fail... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1807 - 546 pages
...evermore and quake : All in a canvas thin he was hedight, And girded with a helt of twisled hrake : Upon his head he wore an helmet light, Made of a dead man's skull, that seemd a ghastly xxm. [sight. Maleger was his name : and after him There follow'd... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 610 pages
...drery as a snake ; That seemd to tremble evermore aud 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, [sight: Made of a dead mans skull, that seemd a ghastly Maleger was his name : and after him There... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...drery as a snake, That secm'd 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 man's skull, that seem'da gastly sight. ยง 42. Defamation. HIM in a narrow place he overtook, And fierce... | |
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