The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: In Five Volumes, Volume 5Little, 1842 |
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... glorie , and unstedfast state Of all that lives on face of sinfull earth ! Which , from their first untill their utmost date , Taste no one houre of happines or merth ; But like as at the ingate 2 of their berth They crying creep out of ...
... glorie , and unstedfast state Of all that lives on face of sinfull earth ! Which , from their first untill their utmost date , Taste no one houre of happines or merth ; But like as at the ingate 2 of their berth They crying creep out of ...
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... , that living never baid . He now is gone , the whiles the Foxe is crept Into the hole , the which the Badger swept . 215 1 Louteth , boweth . 2 Oaker , ochre , paint . " He now is dead , and all his glorie THE RUINES OF TIME . 19.
... , that living never baid . He now is gone , the whiles the Foxe is crept Into the hole , the which the Badger swept . 215 1 Louteth , boweth . 2 Oaker , ochre , paint . " He now is dead , and all his glorie THE RUINES OF TIME . 19.
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... glorie gone , And all his greatnes vapoured to nought , That as a glasse upon the water shone , Which vanisht quite , so soone as it was sought : His name is worne alreadie out of thought , Ne anie Poet seekes him to revive ; Yet manie ...
... glorie gone , And all his greatnes vapoured to nought , That as a glasse upon the water shone , Which vanisht quite , so soone as it was sought : His name is worne alreadie out of thought , Ne anie Poet seekes him to revive ; Yet manie ...
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... glorie , worshipped of all , 455 460 Ne feareth change of time , nor fortunes threate , Let him behold the horror of my fall , And his owne end unto remembrance call ; 465 That of like ruine he may warned bee , And in himselfe be moov'd ...
... glorie , worshipped of all , 455 460 Ne feareth change of time , nor fortunes threate , Let him behold the horror of my fall , And his owne end unto remembrance call ; 465 That of like ruine he may warned bee , And in himselfe be moov'd ...
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... glorie or in greatnes to excell , Sith 2 time doth greatest things to ruine bring ? This goodlie Bridge , one foote not fastned well , Gan faile , and all the rest downe shortlie fell , Ne of so brave a building ought remained , That ...
... glorie or in greatnes to excell , Sith 2 time doth greatest things to ruine bring ? This goodlie Bridge , one foote not fastned well , Gan faile , and all the rest downe shortlie fell , Ne of so brave a building ought remained , That ...
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