Yea but (quoth she) the perill of this place I better wot then you, though now too late To wish you backe returne with foule disgrace, Yet wisedome warnes, whilest foot is in the gate, To stay the steppe, ere forced to retrate. This is the wandring wood,... Book I of The Faery Queene - Page 6by Edmund Spenser - 1883 - 257 pagesFull view - About this book
| Edmund Spenser - 1758 - 574 pages
...you back return with foul difgrace ; Yet wifdom warns, whilft foot is in the gate, To ftay the ftep, ere forced to retrate. This is the wandring wood, this Errours den ; A monfter vMe, whom God and man does hate : Therefore, I read beware, fly, fly, (quoth then X. XIV. But... | |
| Edmund Spenser - Epic poetry, English - 1758 - 800 pages
...retttrne with foule difgrace j Tet wifedome warms, whileji foot is in the gate, To Jiay the Jleppe, ere forced to retrate. This is the wandring wood, this Errours den, A monjler vile, whom God and man does hate : Therefore I read beware. Fly, fly, quoth then The fearefull... | |
| Edmund Spenser - 1805 - 452 pages
...likewife. Inferno, C. xvii. " Ecco la fiera con la coda aguzza - " E quella fozza imagine di froda Therefore I read beware." " Fly, fly," quoth then...fearefull Dwarfe; " this is no place for living men." XIV. But, full of fire and greedy hardiment, The youthfull Knight could not for ought be itaide ; But... | |
| Edmund Spenser - 1805 - 448 pages
...delights in the exhibition of thefe heterogeneous perfonages. Thus Melufme is painted. " Quand Ravmondm Therefore I read beware." " Fly, fly," quoth then...fearefull Dwarfe; " this is no place for living men." xiv.. But, full of fire and greedy hardiment, The youthfull Knight could not for ought be ftaide ;... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 610 pages
...is in the gate, To stay the steppe, ere forced to retrate. This is the \Vandring Wood, this Erro'irs Den, A monster vile, whom God and man does hate : Therefore I read beware." — " Fly, fly,"quoth then The fearefull dwarfe; "this is no place for living men.™ But, full of fire and greedy... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 600 pages
...nowe too late To wish you backe returne with foule disgrace, Yet wiscdome names, whilest foot is in the gate, To stay the steppe, ere forced to retrate. This is the Waudring Wood, this Krrours Den, A monster vile, whom God and man does hate : Therefore I read beware."... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 420 pages
...foot is in the gate, To stay the steppe, ere foreed to retrate. This is the Wandring Wood, this Erronn Den, A monster vile, whom God and man does hate : Therefore I read beware." — " Fly, fiv." quoth then The fearfull dwarfe; "this is no plaee for living men." But, full of fire and greedy... | |
| British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 356 pages
...nowe too late To wish you backe returne with foul disgrace, Yet wisedome warnes, whilest foot is in the gate, To stay the steppe, ere forced to retrate....fearefull Dwarfe, " this is no place for living men." XIV. But, full of fire and greedy hardiment, The youthfull Knight could not for ought be staide ; But... | |
| Robert Southey - English poetry - 1831 - 1038 pages
...nowe too late To wish you backe returne with foule disgrace, Yet wisedome warnes, whitest foot is in the gate, To stay the steppe, ere forced to retrate....Therefore I read beware." — " Fly, fly," quoth then Thefearefulldwarfe; " this ¡snoplacefor living men." But, full of fire and greedy hardiment, The youthful... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1838 - 478 pages
...infection, like that pusillanimous underling in Spenser— ' This is the wandering wood, this Error's den ; A monster vile, whom God and man does hate: Therefore, I reed, beware. Fly, fly, quoth then The fearful Dwarf.' 19* And, if they be writers in orthodox journals—addressing... | |
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