The Poetical Works of Edmund SpenserH. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1921 - 736 pages |
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Page xxi
... seeme rather for gaine and commoditie to doe it , for some sweete- nesse that I have already tasted . ' He is about to go overseas for his 1 Vide Letter to Harvey , p . 612 . * Spenser's belief in a golden age need not be taken ...
... seeme rather for gaine and commoditie to doe it , for some sweete- nesse that I have already tasted . ' He is about to go overseas for his 1 Vide Letter to Harvey , p . 612 . * Spenser's belief in a golden age need not be taken ...
Page xxvi
... seeme hard for me , to refuse the request made by you all , whom euery one alone , I should for many respects be willing to gratifie ; yet as the case standeth , I doubt not but with the consent of the most part of you , I shall be ...
... seeme hard for me , to refuse the request made by you all , whom euery one alone , I should for many respects be willing to gratifie ; yet as the case standeth , I doubt not but with the consent of the most part of you , I shall be ...
Page lix
... seeme more bright . ( 11. xii . 78. ) 6 ( The beauty of women again and again suggests to him imaginative effects of light and shade ) The angel face ' of Una makes a sunshine in the shady place ' , the damsells who dance before Colin ...
... seeme more bright . ( 11. xii . 78. ) 6 ( The beauty of women again and again suggests to him imaginative effects of light and shade ) The angel face ' of Una makes a sunshine in the shady place ' , the damsells who dance before Colin ...
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... seeme too solemne sad ; Yet nothing did he dread , but euer was ydrad . 3 Vpon a great aduenture he was bond , That ... seemes ; so in With footing worne , and leading inward fa entred arre . 8 And foorth they passe , with pleasure ...
... seeme too solemne sad ; Yet nothing did he dread , but euer was ydrad . 3 Vpon a great aduenture he was bond , That ... seemes ; so in With footing worne , and leading inward fa entred arre . 8 And foorth they passe , with pleasure ...
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... seeme for Vna fit . 46 Now when that ydle dreame was to him brought , Vnto that Elfin knight he bad him fly , Where he slept soundly void of euill thought , And with false shewes abuse his fantasy , In sort as he him schooled priuily ...
... seeme for Vna fit . 46 Now when that ydle dreame was to him brought , Vnto that Elfin knight he bad him fly , Where he slept soundly void of euill thought , And with false shewes abuse his fantasy , In sort as he him schooled priuily ...
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Page 576 - Why blush ye, love, to give to me your hand, The pledge of all our band ! Sing, ye sweet Angels, Alleluya sing, That all the woods may answere, and your eccho ring.
Page 45 - She was araied all in lilly white, And in her right hand bore a cup of gold, With wine and water fild up to the hight, In which a serpent did himselfe enfold, That horrour made to all that did behold; But she no...
Page 100 - O ! th' exceeding grace Of Highest God that loves his creatures so, And all his workes with mercy doth embrace, That blessed Angels he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe...
Page 531 - I know not right : Whom when I asked from what place he came, And how he hight, himselfe he did ycleepe The Shepheard of the Ocean by name, And said he came far from the main-sea deepe.
Page 130 - In her left hand a cup of gold she held, And with her right the riper fruit did reach, Whose sappy liquor, that with fulnesse sweld, Into her cup she scruzd, with daintie breach Of her fine fingers, without fowle empeach, That so faire winepresse made the wine more sweet...
Page 371 - more happie is the state In which ye, father, here doe dwell at ease, Leading a life so free and fortunate From all the tempests of these worldly seas, Which tosse the rest in daungerous disease; Where warres, and wreckes, and wicked enmitie Doe them afflict, which no man can appease; That certes I your happinesse envie, And wish my lot were plast in such felicitie.
Page 8 - But now seemde best the person to put on Of that good knight, his late beguiled guest : In mighty armes he was yclad anon, And silver shield, upon his coward brest A bloudy crosse, and on his craven crest A bounch of haires discolourd diversly. Full jolly knight he seemde, and wel addrest, And, when he sate upon his courser free, Saint George himself ye would have deemed him to be.
Page 5 - Right well, Sir knight, ye have advised bin," Quoth then that aged man : " the way to win Is wisely to advise ; now day is spent : Therefore with me ye may take up your In For this same night.
Page 96 - But huge great yron chests and coffers strong, All bard with double bends, that none could weene Them to efforce by violence or wrong: On every side they placed were along. But all the grownd...
Page 115 - So to his crowne she him restord againe; In which he dyde, made ripe for death by eld, And after wild it should to her remaine: Who peaceably the same long time did weld, And all mens harts in dew obedience held; Till that her sisters...