The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: In Five Volumes, Volume 5Little, 1842 |
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... Seeke with Pyramides , to heaven aspired ; Or huge Colosses , built with costlie paine ; Or brasen Pillours , never to be fired ; 400 405 410 Or Shrines , made of the mettall most desired ; To make their memories for ever live : For how ...
... Seeke with Pyramides , to heaven aspired ; Or huge Colosses , built with costlie paine ; Or brasen Pillours , never to be fired ; 400 405 410 Or Shrines , made of the mettall most desired ; To make their memories for ever live : For how ...
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... seeke her loves delight : With that she started up with cherefull sight , When suddeinly both Bed and all was gone , And I in languor left there all alone . V. away , Still as I gazed , I beheld where stood A Knight all arm'd , upon a ...
... seeke her loves delight : With that she started up with cherefull sight , When suddeinly both Bed and all was gone , And I in languor left there all alone . V. away , Still as I gazed , I beheld where stood A Knight all arm'd , upon a ...
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... themselves to scorne , Doo seeke to make us of the world forlorne . Ne onely they that dwell in lowly dust , The sonnes of darknes and of ignoraunce ; 3335 55 60 65 But they , whom thou , great love , by THE TEARES OF THE MUSES . 43.
... themselves to scorne , Doo seeke to make us of the world forlorne . Ne onely they that dwell in lowly dust , The sonnes of darknes and of ignoraunce ; 3335 55 60 65 But they , whom thou , great love , by THE TEARES OF THE MUSES . 43.
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... seeke we helpe our sorrow to redresse , Yet none vouchsafes to answere to our call ; Therefore we mourne and pittilesse complaine , Because none living pittieth our paine.- With that she wept and wofullie waymented , 1 That naught on ...
... seeke we helpe our sorrow to redresse , Yet none vouchsafes to answere to our call ; Therefore we mourne and pittilesse complaine , Because none living pittieth our paine.- With that she wept and wofullie waymented , 1 That naught on ...
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... seeke for pleasure , nought for praise , Their great revenues all in sumptuous pride 460 465 They spend , that nought to learning they may spare ; And the rich fee , which Poets wont divide , Now Parasites and Sycophants doo share ...
... seeke for pleasure , nought for praise , Their great revenues all in sumptuous pride 460 465 They spend , that nought to learning they may spare ; And the rich fee , which Poets wont divide , Now Parasites and Sycophants doo share ...
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