Edmund Spenser's Knight of the red cross; or Holiness [The faerie queene, book 1]. The antique spelling is modernized, obsolete words are displaced [&c., by W. Horton].John Mason, 1850 - 132 pages |
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... wide champaign so fast , That every man to shelter did constrain ; And this fair couple too to shroud themselves were fain . Enforced to seek some covert nigh at hand , A shady grove not far away they spied , That promised aid the ...
... wide champaign so fast , That every man to shelter did constrain ; And this fair couple too to shroud themselves were fain . Enforced to seek some covert nigh at hand , A shady grove not far away they spied , That promised aid the ...
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... wide , Marks which do bite their hasty supper best , A cloud of cumbrous gnats do him molest , All striving to infix their feeble stings , That from th ' annoyance he no where can rest ; But with his clownish hands their tender wings He ...
... wide , Marks which do bite their hasty supper best , A cloud of cumbrous gnats do him molest , All striving to infix their feeble stings , That from th ' annoyance he no where can rest ; But with his clownish hands their tender wings He ...
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... wide mouth ; but , being there withstood , They flocked all about her bleeding wound , And sucked up their dying mother's blood ; Making her death their life , her hurt their present good . That sight detestable him much amazed , To see ...
... wide mouth ; but , being there withstood , They flocked all about her bleeding wound , And sucked up their dying mother's blood ; Making her death their life , her hurt their present good . That sight detestable him much amazed , To see ...
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... wide There was a holy chapel edified , Wherein the hermit duly wont to say His holy things each morn and eventide : Thereby a crystal stream did gently play , Which from a sacred fountain welled forth alway . . Arrived there the little ...
... wide There was a holy chapel edified , Wherein the hermit duly wont to say His holy things each morn and eventide : Thereby a crystal stream did gently play , Which from a sacred fountain welled forth alway . . Arrived there the little ...
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... wide and deep , To Morpheus ' house doth hastily repair . Amid the bowels of the earth , full steep And low , where dawning day doth never peep His dwelling is ; there Tethys his wet bed Doth ever wash ; and Cynthia still doth steep In ...
... wide and deep , To Morpheus ' house doth hastily repair . Amid the bowels of the earth , full steep And low , where dawning day doth never peep His dwelling is ; there Tethys his wet bed Doth ever wash ; and Cynthia still doth steep In ...
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Popular passages
Page 27 - As the great eye of heaven, shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place: Did never mortal eye behold such heavenly grace. It fortuned...
Page 7 - The laurel, meed of mighty conquerors And poets sage, the fir that weepeth still. The willow, worn of forlorn paramours, The yew obedient to the bender's will, The birch for shafts, the sallow for the mill...
Page 104 - She was a woman in her freshest age, Of wondrous beauty, and of bounty rare, With goodly grace and comely personage...
Page 7 - That lasie seemd in being ever last, Or wearied with bearing of her bag Of needments at his backe.
Page 10 - That from their noyance he no where can rest, But with his clownish hands their tender wings He brusheth oft, and oft doth mar their murmurings.
Page 6 - A lovely Ladie rode him faire beside, Upon a lowly Asse more white then snow. Yet she much whiter ; but the same did hide Under a vele...
Page 95 - Is not short paine well borne, that brings long ease, And layes the soule to sleepe in quiet grave? Sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life does greatly please.
Page 11 - At length they chaunst to meet upon the way An aged Sire, in long blacke weedes yclad, His feete all bare, his beard all hoarie gray, And by his belt his booke he hanging had; Sober he seemde, and very sagely sad, And to the ground his eyes were lowly bent, Simple in shew, and voide of malice bad, And all the way he prayed, as he went, And often knockt his brest, as one that did repent.
Page 14 - And more to lull him in his slumber soft, A trickling stream, from high rock tumbling down, And ever drizzling rain upon the loft, Mixed with a murmuring wind, much like the sound Of swarming bees, did cast him in a swound: No other noise, nor people's troublous cries, As still are wont t' annoy the walled town, Might there be heard; but careless Quiet lies, Wrapt in eternal silence, far from enemies.
Page 13 - The drooping night thus creepeth on them fast ; And the sad humour, loading their eye-lids, As messenger of Morpheus, on them cast Sweet slumbering dew ; the which to sleep them bids.