Spenser: Book I of the Faery QueeneClarendon Press, 1881 - 257 pages |
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... never more heard of , and probably perished in the fire . Spenser reached England broken - hearted , and next January , some three months later , his body rested by Chaucer's side in the south transept of Westminster Abbey m . So his ...
... never more heard of , and probably perished in the fire . Spenser reached England broken - hearted , and next January , some three months later , his body rested by Chaucer's side in the south transept of Westminster Abbey m . So his ...
Page xvi
... never forwards , in his choice of words and phrases . Nor should it be forgotten that he was protesting against the transition then going on in language , and against the affectations which were taking the place of thought and feeling ...
... never forwards , in his choice of words and phrases . Nor should it be forgotten that he was protesting against the transition then going on in language , and against the affectations which were taking the place of thought and feeling ...
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... never wield : His angry steede did chide his foming bitt , As much disdayning to the curbe to yield : Full jolly knight he seemd , and faire did sitt , As one for knightly giusts and fierce encounters fitt . 2 And on his brest a bloudie ...
... never wield : His angry steede did chide his foming bitt , As much disdayning to the curbe to yield : Full jolly knight he seemd , and faire did sitt , As one for knightly giusts and fierce encounters fitt . 2 And on his brest a bloudie ...
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... never dry , The builder oake , sole king of forrests all , The aspine good for staves , the cypresse funerall , 9 The laurell , meed of mightie conquerours And poets sage , the firre that weepeth still , The willow worne of forlorne ...
... never dry , The builder oake , sole king of forrests all , The aspine good for staves , the cypresse funerall , 9 The laurell , meed of mightie conquerours And poets sage , the firre that weepeth still , The willow worne of forlorne ...
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... never peepe , His dwelling is ; there Tethys his wet bed Doth ever wash , and Cynthia still doth steepe In silver deaw his ever - drouping hed , Whiles sad night over him her mantle black doth spred . 40 Whose double gates he findeth ...
... never peepe , His dwelling is ; there Tethys his wet bed Doth ever wash , and Cynthia still doth steepe In silver deaw his ever - drouping hed , Whiles sad night over him her mantle black doth spred . 40 Whose double gates he findeth ...
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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...