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" Fluttring among the Olives wantonly, That seem'd to live, so like it was in sight : The velvet nap which on his wings doth lie, The silken downe with which his backe is dight, His broad outstretched homes, his hayrie thies, His glorious colours, and his... "
The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser - Page 393
by Edmund Spenser - 1839
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Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to ...

English poetry - 1788 - 510 pages
...Butterfly With excellent device and wondrous slight, 330 Fluttring among the olives wantonly, That seem'd to live, so like it was in sight ; The velvet nap which on his wings doth lie, The silken down with which his back is dight, His broad out-stretched horns, his airy thighs, 33$ His glorious...
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Spenser, Daniel

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 600 pages
...butterflic, With excellent device and wondrous slight, riuttring among the olives wantonly, That seem'd to live, so like it was in sight : The velvet nap...is dight, His broad outstretched homes, his hayrie tliies, Hit glorious colours, and his glistering eies. Which when Arachne saw, as overlaid, And mastered...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Spenser, Daniel

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 610 pages
...butterflie, With excellent device and wondrous slight, Fluttring among the olives wantonly, That seem'd to live, so like it was in sight: The velvet nap which...doth lie, The silken downe with which his backe is (light, His broad outstretched homes, his hayrie thies, His glorious colours, and his glistering eies....
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The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser in Five Volumes, Volume 5

Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1825 - 450 pages
...Butterflie, Whh excellent device and wondrous slight, 330 Fluttring among the Olives wantonly, That seem'd to live, so like it was in sight : The velvet nap...with which his backe is dight, His broad outstretched horues, his hayrie thies, 835 His glorious colours, and his glistering eies. ,. Which when Arachne...
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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary ..., Part 2; Parts 1945-1948

Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 pages
...butter/lie, With excellent device and wondrous slight, Fluttering among the olives wantonly, That seemed to live, so like it was in sight , The velvet nap...dight, His broad outstretched homes, his hayrie thies. His glorious colours, and his glistering eics. Speruer'i iluiopotmot. With an old buttery hatch, worn...
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 27

1836 - 456 pages
...pleasure. Who has ever described a butterfly like our Spenser in those lines of matchless beauty ? The velvet nap which on his wings doth lie. The silken downe with which his backe w digtit, His broad outstretched homes, his hayrie thles. His glorious colours and his glisteiing eies....
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Traditions, Legends, Superstitions, and Sketches of Devonshire: On ..., Volume 2

Mrs. Bray (Anna Eliza) - Devon (England) - 1838 - 372 pages
...to pleasure. Who has ever described a butterfly like our Spenser in those lines of matchless beauty? The velvet nap which on his wings doth lie, The silken downe with which his backe is (light, His broad outstretched homes, his hayrie thies, His glorious colours and his glistering eies....
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Arcana entomologica: or Illustrations of new, rare, and ..., Volume 1; Volume 61

John Obadiah Westwood - 1841 - 306 pages
...butterfly, With excellent device and wondrous slight, Fluttering among the olives wantonly, That seem'd to live, so like it was in sight— The velvet nap which on his wings doth lie, The silken down with which his back is dight ; His broad outstretehed horns, his airy thighs, His glorious colours,...
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Spenser: And His Poetry, Volume 3

George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 260 pages
...butterfly, With excellent device and wondrous sleight, Fluttering among the olives wantonly, That seemed to live, so like it was in sight : The velvet nap which on his wings doth lie, The silken down with which his back is dight, His broad outstretched horns, his hairy thighs, His glorious colours...
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The Opal: A Pure Gift for the Holy Days

John Keese, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, Nathaniel Parker Willis - Christian literature, American - 1848 - 360 pages
...BUTTERFLY, With excellent device and wondrous sleight, Fluttering among the olives wantonly, That seemed to live, so like it was in sight: The velvet nap which on its wings doth lie, The silken down with which his back is dight, His broad outstretched horns, his...
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