Spenser: Book I of the Faery QueeneClarendon Press, 1881 - 257 pages |
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... brought him and Sir Philip Sidney together . To Sidney he dedicated his first printed work , the Shepheards Calender , which was published in the year 1579 . Next year , Arthur , Lord Grey de Wilton , took Spenser with him as his ...
... brought him and Sir Philip Sidney together . To Sidney he dedicated his first printed work , the Shepheards Calender , which was published in the year 1579 . Next year , Arthur , Lord Grey de Wilton , took Spenser with him as his ...
Page ix
... brought out in 1594 ; Bacon's Essays in 1597. The land is a - glow with every form of life : and Spenser connects the past with the future . Looking back to his master , Chaucer , he draws his own England with a romantic hand , the ...
... brought out in 1594 ; Bacon's Essays in 1597. The land is a - glow with every form of life : and Spenser connects the past with the future . Looking back to his master , Chaucer , he draws his own England with a romantic hand , the ...
Page xxiv
... - astical Polity , Books I - IV Spenser's Faery Queene , 2nd ed . , containing Books I - VI 1596 Shakespeare's earlier plays brought out by Bacon publishes his Essays • Spenser dies in Westminster 1597 " " 1599 Edict of Nantes Philip III.
... - astical Polity , Books I - IV Spenser's Faery Queene , 2nd ed . , containing Books I - VI 1596 Shakespeare's earlier plays brought out by Bacon publishes his Essays • Spenser dies in Westminster 1597 " " 1599 Edict of Nantes Philip III.
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... brought up , so soone as he was borne of the Lady Igrayne ) to have seene in a dreame or vision the Faerie Queene , with whose excellent beautie ravished , hee awaking , resolved to seeke her out : and so , being by Merlin armed , and ...
... brought up , so soone as he was borne of the Lady Igrayne ) to have seene in a dreame or vision the Faerie Queene , with whose excellent beautie ravished , hee awaking , resolved to seeke her out : and so , being by Merlin armed , and ...
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... brought would serve him ( that is , the armour of a Christian man specified by Saint Paul , v . Ephes . ) that he could not succeed in that enterprise : which being forth - with put upon him with due furnitures thereunto , he seemed the ...
... brought would serve him ( that is , the armour of a Christian man specified by Saint Paul , v . Ephes . ) that he could not succeed in that enterprise : which being forth - with put upon him with due furnitures thereunto , he seemed the ...
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Archimago Ariosto armes armour Bartsch beast blood bloud Brachet brest CANTO Chanson de Roland Chaucer Cotgrave cruell dame deadly deare death Dict Diez doth dragon dread dreadfull elfin knight English eternall evil eyes Faery Queene faire false Duessa fast feare fell fierce fight gentle Gloss goodly grace griefe groning hand hart hath heaven heavenly hight house of Pride Icel king lady Latin light lord Lord Leicester meaning mighty Milton Nares never nigh nought paine Parv Paynim phrase poets powre pret pride Prince Arthur pron proud quoth rage Red Cross Knight seemd seems selfe sense Shepheards Calender shew shield shyne sight Skeat s.v. sonne sore Spenser spide Stratmann sweet thee thence thou tree Truth unto vaine verb viii wandring weary weene wondrous wont word wound wyde yron
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Page 51 - THE noble hart, that harbours vertuous thought, And is with child of glorious great intent, Can never rest, untill it forth have brought Th' eternall brood of glorie excellent.
Page 111 - For he that once hath missed the right way, The further he doth goe, the further he doth stray. ' Then doe no further goe, no further stray, But here ly downe, and to thy rest betake, Th...
Page 6 - Enforst to seeke some covert nigh at hand, A shadie grove not farr away they spide, That promist ayde the tempest to withstand ; Whose loftie trees, yclad with sommers pride, Did spred so broad, that heavens light did hide...
Page xxx - Queene to assygne her some one of her knights to take on him that exployt. Presently that clownish person, upstarting, desired that adventure : whereat the Queene much wondering, and the Lady much gainesaying, yet he earnestly importuned his desire.
Page xxviii - I have followed all the antique Poets historicall; first Homere, who in the Persons of Agamemnon and Ulysses hath ensampled a good governour and a vertuous man, the one in his Ilias, the other in his Odysseis: then Virgil, whose like intention was to doe in the person of Aeneas: after him Ariosto comprised them both in his Orlando : and lately Tasso dissevered them againe, and formed both parts in two persons, namely that part which they in Philosophy call Ethice, or vertues of a private man, coloured...
Page 168 - Abhorred Styx, the flood of deadly hate; Sad Acheron, of sorrow, black and deep; Cocytus, named of lamentation loud Heard on the rueful stream; fierce Phlegethon, Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage.
Page xxviii - I know, this methode will seeme displeasaunt, which had rather have good discipline delivered plainly in way of precepts, or sermoned at large, as they use, then thus clowdily enwrapped in allegoricall devises. But such, me seeme, should be satisfide with the use of these dayes, seeing all things accounted by their showes, and nothing esteemed of, that is not delightfull and pleasing to commune sence.
Page xxx - ... seemed the goodliest man in al that company, and was well liked of the lady.
Page 118 - 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 xxvii - The generall end therefore of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline...