The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser in Five Volumes, Volume 3W. Pickering, 1825 - 434 pages |
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... base affect through cowardly distrust Of his weake wings dare not to heaven fly , But like a moldwarpe in the earth doth ly . His dunghill thoughts , which do themselves enure To dirtie drosse , no higher dare aspyre , Ne can his feeble ...
... base affect through cowardly distrust Of his weake wings dare not to heaven fly , But like a moldwarpe in the earth doth ly . His dunghill thoughts , which do themselves enure To dirtie drosse , no higher dare aspyre , Ne can his feeble ...
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... base affection , which your eares would bland Commend to you by Loves abused name , But is indeede the bondslave of Defame ; Which will the garland of your glorie marre , 170 And quench the light of your brightshyning starre . 175 But ...
... base affection , which your eares would bland Commend to you by Loves abused name , But is indeede the bondslave of Defame ; Which will the garland of your glorie marre , 170 And quench the light of your brightshyning starre . 175 But ...
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... base world unto thy heavens hight , Where I may see those admirable things Which there thou workest by thy soveraine might , Farre above feeble reach of earthly sight , That I thereof an heavenly Hymne may sing Unto the God of Love ...
... base world unto thy heavens hight , Where I may see those admirable things Which there thou workest by thy soveraine might , Farre above feeble reach of earthly sight , That I thereof an heavenly Hymne may sing Unto the God of Love ...
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Edmund Spenser. Therefore of clay , base , vile , and next to nought , 106 Yet form'd by wondrous skill , and by His might , According to an heavenly patterne wrought , Which He had fashiond in his wise foresight , He man did make , and ...
Edmund Spenser. Therefore of clay , base , vile , and next to nought , 106 Yet form'd by wondrous skill , and by His might , According to an heavenly patterne wrought , Which He had fashiond in his wise foresight , He man did make , and ...
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