Spenser: Book I of the Faery QueeneClarendon Press, 1881 - 257 pages |
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... wounds did remaine , The cruel markes of many a bloudy fielde ; Yet armes till that time did he 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 ...
... wounds did remaine , The cruel markes of many a bloudy fielde ; Yet armes till that time did he 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 ...
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... wound , The warlike beech , the ash for nothing ill , The fruitful olive , and the platane round , The carver holme , the maple seeldom inward sound . 10 Led with delight , they thus beguile the way , Untill the blustring storme is ...
... wound , The warlike beech , the ash for nothing ill , The fruitful olive , and the platane round , The carver holme , the maple seeldom inward sound . 10 Led with delight , they thus beguile the way , Untill the blustring storme is ...
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... wound , That hand or foot to stirre he strove in vaine : God helpe the man so wrapt in Errours endlesse traine . 19 His lady sad to see his sore constraint , Cride out , Now now Sir knight , shew what ye bee , Add faith unto your force ...
... wound , That hand or foot to stirre he strove in vaine : God helpe the man so wrapt in Errours endlesse traine . 19 His lady sad to see his sore constraint , Cride out , Now now Sir knight , shew what ye bee , Add faith unto your force ...
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... wound , And sucked up their dying mothers bloud , Making her death their life , and eke her hurt their good . 26 That detestable sight him much amazde , To see th ' unkindly impes , of heaven accurst , Devoure their dam ; on whom while ...
... wound , And sucked up their dying mothers bloud , Making her death their life , and eke her hurt their good . 26 That detestable sight him much amazde , To see th ' unkindly impes , of heaven accurst , Devoure their dam ; on whom while ...
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... the ground , That from the bloud he might be innocent , And with fresh clay did close the wooden wound : Then turning to his lady , dead with feare her found . 45 Her seeming dead he found with feigned feare , 24 THE FAERY QUEENE .
... the ground , That from the bloud he might be innocent , And with fresh clay did close the wooden wound : Then turning to his lady , dead with feare her found . 45 Her seeming dead he found with feigned feare , 24 THE FAERY QUEENE .
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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...