The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: In Five Volumes, Volume 5Little, 1842 |
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... vaine worlds 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 ...
... vaine worlds 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 ...
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... vaine doo earthly Princes then , in vaine , 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 ...
... vaine doo earthly Princes then , in vaine , 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 ...
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... vaine illusion Hath so wise men bewitcht , and overkest , That they see not the way of their confusion : O vainesse ! to be added to the rest , That do my soule with inward griefe infest : Let them behold the piteous fall of mee , And ...
... vaine illusion Hath so wise men bewitcht , and overkest , That they see not the way of their confusion : O vainesse ! to be added to the rest , That do my soule with inward griefe infest : Let them behold the piteous fall of mee , And ...
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... vaine labours of terrestriall wit , That buildes so stronglie on so frayle a soyle , As with each storme does fall away , and flit , And gives the fruit of all your travailes toyle , To be the pray of Tyme , and Fortunes spoyle ! I saw ...
... vaine labours of terrestriall wit , That buildes so stronglie on so frayle a soyle , As with each storme does fall away , and flit , And gives the fruit of all your travailes toyle , To be the pray of Tyme , and Fortunes spoyle ! I saw ...
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... vaine toyes the vulgar entertaine ; But me have banished , with all the rest That whilome1 wont to wait upon my traine , 1 Whilome , formerly . 191 195 Fine Counterfesaunce , 1 and unhurtfull Sport , Delight , 48 THE TEARES OF THE MUSES .
... vaine toyes the vulgar entertaine ; But me have banished , with all the rest That whilome1 wont to wait upon my traine , 1 Whilome , formerly . 191 195 Fine Counterfesaunce , 1 and unhurtfull Sport , Delight , 48 THE TEARES OF THE MUSES .
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