Spenser: Book I of the Faery QueeneClarendon Press, 1881 - 257 pages |
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... Lord Grey de Wilton , took Spenser with him as his secretary to Ireland , in all probability through Lord Leicester's influence ; for just before this time he had been staying at Penshurst , Lord Leicester's seat in Kent . On Lord ...
... Lord Grey de Wilton , took Spenser with him as his secretary to Ireland , in all probability through Lord Leicester's influence ; for just before this time he had been staying at Penshurst , Lord Leicester's seat in Kent . On Lord ...
Page vii
... Lord Burleigh's dislike to Spenser , and his endeavour to stop his pension . Spenser , who loved and admired Archbishop Grindalf ( the good Algrind of the Shep- heards Calender ) , must have disliked Burleigh , who treated the d Colin ...
... Lord Burleigh's dislike to Spenser , and his endeavour to stop his pension . Spenser , who loved and admired Archbishop Grindalf ( the good Algrind of the Shep- heards Calender ) , must have disliked Burleigh , who treated the d Colin ...
Page viii
... Lord Leicester's rival at court , cannot have felt m goodwill towards one who was so closely attached to the pa of his antagonist . Beyond this , there seems to be no gro for the tale . Early in life Spenser had worshipped a fair ...
... Lord Leicester's rival at court , cannot have felt m goodwill towards one who was so closely attached to the pa of his antagonist . Beyond this , there seems to be no gro for the tale . Early in life Spenser had worshipped a fair ...
Page x
... Lord Leicester's , close - clipped beard , heavy eyebrows , and under them thoughtful brown eyes , whose upper eyelids weigh them dreamily down ; a long and straight nose , strongly developed , answering to a long and somewhat spare ...
... Lord Leicester's , close - clipped beard , heavy eyebrows , and under them thoughtful brown eyes , whose upper eyelids weigh them dreamily down ; a long and straight nose , strongly developed , answering to a long and somewhat spare ...
Page xii
... Lord Grey , and at greater distance , Walsingham , Leicester , and Essex , taught him that loyalty and sensitiveness , which marked him in both his life and his writings . Add to these a pure and deep sense of religion , and an ac ...
... Lord Grey , and at greater distance , Walsingham , Leicester , and Essex , taught him that loyalty and sensitiveness , which marked him in both his life and his writings . Add to these a pure and deep sense of religion , and an ac ...
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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...