The Works of Edmund Spenser: With a Selection of Notes from Various Commentators; and a Glossarial Index: to which is Prefixed, Some Account of the Life of Spenser, by Henry John ToddE. Moxon, 1845 - 562 pages |
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... litle space , Which for their titles sake † may find more grace . E. S. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORD BURleigh , Lord HIGH THREASURER OF ENGLAND . To you , Right Noble Lord , whose carefull brest To menage of most grave affaires is ...
... litle space , Which for their titles sake † may find more grace . E. S. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORD BURleigh , Lord HIGH THREASURER OF ENGLAND . To you , Right Noble Lord , whose carefull brest To menage of most grave affaires is ...
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... litle glooming light , much like a shade ; By which he saw the ugly monster plaine , Halfe like a serpent horribly displaide , But th ' other halfe did womans shape retaine , Most lothsom , filthie , foule , and full of vile disdaine ...
... litle glooming light , much like a shade ; By which he saw the ugly monster plaine , Halfe like a serpent horribly displaide , But th ' other halfe did womans shape retaine , Most lothsom , filthie , foule , and full of vile disdaine ...
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... litle lowly hermitage it was , Downe in a dale , hard by a forests side , Far from resort of people , that did pas In traveil to and froe : a litle wyde There was an holy chappell edifyde , Wherein the Hermite dewly wont to say His holy ...
... litle lowly hermitage it was , Downe in a dale , hard by a forests side , Far from resort of people , that did pas In traveil to and froe : a litle wyde There was an holy chappell edifyde , Wherein the Hermite dewly wont to say His holy ...
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... litle flyes , Fluttring about his ever - damned hedd , Awaite whereto their service he applyes , To aide his friendes , or fray his enimies : Of those he chose out two , the falsest twoo , And fittest for to forge true - seeming lyes ...
... litle flyes , Fluttring about his ever - damned hedd , Awaite whereto their service he applyes , To aide his friendes , or fray his enimies : Of those he chose out two , the falsest twoo , And fittest for to forge true - seeming lyes ...
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... litle answerd th ' angry Elfin Knight ; He never meant with words , but swords , to plead his right : XLIII . But threw his gauntlet , as a sacred pledg , His cause in combat the next day to try : So been they parted both , with harts ...
... litle answerd th ' angry Elfin Knight ; He never meant with words , but swords , to plead his right : XLIII . But threw his gauntlet , as a sacred pledg , His cause in combat the next day to try : So been they parted both , with harts ...
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Page 8 - He, making speedy way through spersed ayre, And through the world of waters wide and deepe, To Morpheus house doth hastily repaire. Amid the bowels of the earth full steepe, And low, where dawning day doth never peepe, His dwelling is ; there Tethys his wet bed Doth ever wash, and Cynthia still doth steepe In silver deaw his ever-drouping hed, Whiles sad Night over him her mantle black doth spred.
Page 5 - Much can they praise the trees so straight and hy, The sayling Pine ; the Cedar proud and tall ; The vine-propp Elme ; the Poplar never dry ; The builder Oake, sole king of forrests all ; The Aspine good for staves ; the Cypresse funerall ; "The Laurell, meed of mightie Conquerours And Poets sage ; the Firre that weepeth still ; The Willow worne of forlorne Paramours ; The Eugh, obedient to the benders will ; The Birch for shaftes ; the Sallow for the mill...
Page 7 - Sir knight, ye have advised bin, (Quoth then that aged man) the way to win Is wisely to advise: now day is spent; Therefore with me ye may take up your in For this same night.
Page 118 - Eftsoones they heard a most melodious sound, Of all that mote delight a daintie eare, Such as attonce might not on living ground, Save in this Paradise, be heard elsewhere : Right hard it was for wight which did it heare, To read what manner musicke that mote bee ; For all that pleasing is to living eare Was there consorted in one harmonee ; Birdes, voices, instruments, windes, waters, all agree ; The joyous birdes, shrouded in chearefull shade, Their notes unto the voice attempred sweet ; Th...
Page 6 - Full of great lumps of flesh and gobbets raw, Which stunck so vildly, that it forst him slacke His grasping hold, and from her turne him backe: Her vomit full of bookes and papers was, With loathly frogs and toades, which eyes did lacke, And creeping sought way in the weedy gras : Her filthie parbreake all the place defiled has.
Page 5 - Enforst to seeke some covert nigh at hand, A shadie grove not farr away they spide, That promist ayde the tempest to withstand ; Whose loftie trees, yclad with sommers pride, Did spred so broad, that heavens light did hide, Not perceable with power of any starr : And all within were pathes and alleies wide, With footing worne, and leading inward farr. Faire harbour that them seems, so in they entred ar.
Page 92 - How oft do they their silver bowers leave To come to succour us, that succour want ! How oft do they with golden...
Page 117 - And over all, of purest gold was spred A trayle of yvie in his native hew: For the rich metall was so coloured, That wight, who did not well avis'd it vew, Would surely deeme it to bee yvie trew: Low his lascivious armes adown did creepe, That themselves dipping in the silver dew, Their fleecy flowres they tenderly did steepe, Which drops of christall seemd for wantones to weep.
Page 14 - One day, nigh wearie of the yrkesome way, From her unhastie beast she did alight ; And on the grasse her dainty limbs did lay In secrete shadow, far from all mens sight : From her fayre head her fillet she undight, And layd her stole aside. Her angels face, As the great eye of heaven, shyned bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place : Did never mortall eye behold such heavenly grace.
Page 349 - November; he full grosse and fat As fed with lard, and that right well might seeme; For he had been a fatting hogs of late, That yet his browes with sweat did reek and steem, And yet the season was full sharp and breem : In planting eeke he took no small delight.