The Poetical Works of Edmund SpenserH. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1921 - 736 pages |
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Page xlii
... enuie , Vile rancour to auoid , and cruell surquedrie . ( 111. i . 13. ) } He found much in Ariosto which was a mocking challenge to his idealism . He accepted the challenge , and met it by transmuting the mockery into a triumphant ...
... enuie , Vile rancour to auoid , and cruell surquedrie . ( 111. i . 13. ) } He found much in Ariosto which was a mocking challenge to his idealism . He accepted the challenge , and met it by transmuting the mockery into a triumphant ...
Page 21
... Enuie rode , Vpon a rauenous wolfe , and still did chaw Betweene his cankred teeth a venemous tode , That all the poison ran about his chaw ; But inwardly he chawed his owne maw At neighbours wealth , that made him euer sad ; For death ...
... Enuie rode , Vpon a rauenous wolfe , and still did chaw Betweene his cankred teeth a venemous tode , That all the poison ran about his chaw ; But inwardly he chawed his owne maw At neighbours wealth , that made him euer sad ; For death ...
Page 31
... enuie her in their malitious mind , And fly away for feare of fowle disgrace : But all the Satyres scorne their woody kind , And henceforth nothing faire , but her on earth they find . 19 Glad of such lucke , the luckelesse lucky maid ...
... enuie her in their malitious mind , And fly away for feare of fowle disgrace : But all the Satyres scorne their woody kind , And henceforth nothing faire , but her on earth they find . 19 Glad of such lucke , the luckelesse lucky maid ...
Page 67
... enuie , ne vile gealosy His deare delights were able to annoy : Yet swimming in that sea of blisfull ioy , He nought forgot , how he whilome had sworne , In case he could that monstrous beast destroy , Vnto his Farie Queene backe to ...
... enuie , ne vile gealosy His deare delights were able to annoy : Yet swimming in that sea of blisfull ioy , He nought forgot , how he whilome had sworne , In case he could that monstrous beast destroy , Vnto his Farie Queene backe to ...
Page 78
... enuie with deadly hate , And dayly warre against his foeman moues , In hope to win more fauour with his mate , And th'others pleasing seruice to abate , To magnifie his owne But when they heard , How in that place straunge knight ...
... enuie with deadly hate , And dayly warre against his foeman moues , In hope to win more fauour with his mate , And th'others pleasing seruice to abate , To magnifie his owne But when they heard , How in that place straunge knight ...
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