The Poetical Works of Edmund SpenserH. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1926 - 736 pages |
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... the virtue for which he stands appears less in acts of prowess than in his personal demeanour : For a man by nothing is so well bewrayd , As by his manners ; ( vI . iii . 1 ) and the essence of Courtesy is to beare themselues aright To ...
... the virtue for which he stands appears less in acts of prowess than in his personal demeanour : For a man by nothing is so well bewrayd , As by his manners ; ( vI . iii . 1 ) and the essence of Courtesy is to beare themselues aright To ...
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... The day with cloudes was suddeine ouercast , And angry Ioue an hideous storme of raine Did poure into his Lemans lap so fast , And this faire couple eke to shroud themselues That euery wight to shrowd it did constrain , were fain . 7 ...
... The day with cloudes was suddeine ouercast , And angry Ioue an hideous storme of raine Did poure into his Lemans lap so fast , And this faire couple eke to shroud themselues That euery wight to shrowd it did constrain , were fain . 7 ...
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... the ground , Groning full deadly , all with troublous feare , Gathred themselues about her body round , Weening their wonted entrance to haue found At her wide mouth : but being there withstood They flocked all about her bleeding wound ...
... the ground , Groning full deadly , all with troublous feare , Gathred themselues about her body round , Weening their wonted entrance to haue found At her wide mouth : but being there withstood They flocked all about her bleeding wound ...
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... themselues too rudely rigorous , Astonied with the stroke of their owne hand , Do backe rebut , and each to other yeeldeth land . 16 As when two rams stird with ambitious pride , Fight for the rule of the rich fleeced flocke , Their ...
... themselues too rudely rigorous , Astonied with the stroke of their owne hand , Do backe rebut , and each to other yeeldeth land . 16 As when two rams stird with ambitious pride , Fight for the rule of the rich fleeced flocke , Their ...
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... the thirstie land Drunke vp his life ; his corse left on the strand . His fearefull friends weare out the wofull night , Ne dare to weepe , nor seeme to vnderstand " The heauie hap , which on them is alight , Affraid , least to themselues ...
... the thirstie land Drunke vp his life ; his corse left on the strand . His fearefull friends weare out the wofull night , Ne dare to weepe , nor seeme to vnderstand " The heauie hap , which on them is alight , Affraid , least to themselues ...
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