 | Edmund Spenser - 1758 - 574 pages
...At which the bufhy tead a groom did light, And facred lamp in fecret chamber hide, Where it fhould not be quenched day nor night, For fear of evil fates, but burnen ever bright.: XXXVIII. Then 'gan they fprinkle all the pofts with wine, And made great feaft, to folemnize that day? They all perfum-'d with... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 610 pages
...did kindle and provide, And holy water thereon sprinckled wide ; At which the bushy tcade a groóme did light, And sacred lamp in secret chamber hide,...Where it should not be quenched day nor night, For feare of evil fates, but burnen ever bright. Then gan they sprinckle all the posts with wine, And made... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 356 pages
...did kindle and provide, And holy water thereon sprinckled wide ; At which the bushy teade a groome did light, And sacred lamp in secret chamber hide,...Where it should not be quenched day nor night, For feare of evil fates, but burnen ever bright. XXXVIII. Then gan they sprinckle all the posts with wine,... | |
 | Elizabeth Kent (botanist.) - 1825 - 466 pages
...also been used to signify a torch, and has extended to our 6wn language : " At which a bushy teade a groom did light, And sacred lamp in secret chamber...night For fear of evil Fates, but burnen ever bright." SPENSER. Homer thus describes the part of the Sicilian coast where the Cyclops dwelt : " When to the... | |
 | Robert Southey - English poetry - 1831 - 1038 pages
...did kindle and provide, And holy water thereon sprinckled wide ; At which the bushy teade a groóme ? feare of evil fates, but burnen ever bright. Then gan they sprinckle all the posts with wine, And made... | |
 | England - 1835 - 1022 pages
...Christ and his Church ; and this, too, is the allegorical allusion of our poet." On the lines — '« And sacred lamp in secret chamber hide, Where it should not be quenched day or night, For fear of evil fates, but burncn ever bright," the same learned and pious person observes,... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1843 - 388 pages
...fire did kmdle and provide. And holy water thereon sprinckled wide ; At which the bushy teade a groome did light, And sacred lamp in secret chamber hide, Where it should not be quenched day nor ni^ht, For feare of evil fates, but bumen ever bright. Then gan they sprinckle all the posts with wine.... | |
 | Edmund Spenser, Caroline Matilda Kirkland - English poetry - 1847 - 266 pages
...houslingf fire did kindle and provide, And holy water thereon sprinkled wide ; At which the bushy tead| a groom did light, And sacred lamp in secret chamber...sprinkle all the posts with wine, And made great feast to solemnize that day : They all perfumed with frankincense divine, And precious odors fetch'd from far... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer, Charles Dunham Deshler - 1847 - 736 pages
...houslingf fire did kindle and provide, And holy water thereon sprinkled wide ; At which the bushy teadj a groom did light, And sacred lamp in secret chamber...sprinkle all the posts with wine, And made great feast to solemnize that day : They all perfumed with frankincense divine, And precious odors fetch'd from far... | |
 | Edmund Spenser, Caroline Matilda Kirkland - English poetry - 1847 - 262 pages
...houslingf fire did kindle and provide, And holy water thereon sprinkled wide ; At which the bushy tead:): a groom did light, And sacred lamp in secret chamber...night, For fear of evil fates, but burnen ever bright. Then 'gan they sprinkle all the posts with wine, And made great feast to solemnize that day : They... | |
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