The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volumes 3-4Houghton, Osgood, 1878 |
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... Artegall , or of Iustice APPENDIX . Variations from the First Edition . VOL . IV . THE FAERIE QUEENE . Book VI . The Legend of Sir Calidore , or of Courtesie Book VII . ( ? ) Two Cantos of Mutabilitie · APPENDIX . Variations from the ...
... Artegall , or of Iustice APPENDIX . Variations from the First Edition . VOL . IV . THE FAERIE QUEENE . Book VI . The Legend of Sir Calidore , or of Courtesie Book VII . ( ? ) Two Cantos of Mutabilitie · APPENDIX . Variations from the ...
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... Artegall doth quell . 1 IT often fals , ( as here it earst befell , ) That mortall foes doe turne to faithfull frends , And friends profest are chaungd to foemen fell : The cause of both , of both their minds depends ; And th ' end of ...
... Artegall doth quell . 1 IT often fals , ( as here it earst befell , ) That mortall foes doe turne to faithfull frends , And friends profest are chaungd to foemen fell : The cause of both , of both their minds depends ; And th ' end of ...
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... Artegall , in middest of his pryde , And therewith smote him on his umbriere 8 So sore , that , tombling backe , he downe did slyde 1 Dismayd , overpowered . 2 Shend , shame . 3 Umbriere , visor . Over his horses taile above a stryde ...
... Artegall , in middest of his pryde , And therewith smote him on his umbriere 8 So sore , that , tombling backe , he downe did slyde 1 Dismayd , overpowered . 2 Shend , shame . 3 Umbriere , visor . Over his horses taile above a stryde ...
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... on their common harmes together did devise . 1 Recure , recover , retrieve . 2 Fewter , put in rest . 3 Dight , prepare . 4 Entertaind , received . 11 But Artegall , beholding his mischaunce , New matter 106 THE FAERIE QUEENE .
... on their common harmes together did devise . 1 Recure , recover , retrieve . 2 Fewter , put in rest . 3 Dight , prepare . 4 Entertaind , received . 11 But Artegall , beholding his mischaunce , New matter 106 THE FAERIE QUEENE .
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Edmund Spenser Francis James Child. 11 But Artegall , beholding his mischaunce , New matter added to his former fire ; And , eft1 aventring2 his steele - headed launce , Against her rode , full of despiteous ire , That nought but spoyle ...
Edmund Spenser Francis James Child. 11 But Artegall , beholding his mischaunce , New matter added to his former fire ; And , eft1 aventring2 his steele - headed launce , Against her rode , full of despiteous ire , That nought but spoyle ...
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Page 256 - Upon the pillours of eternity, That is contrayr to Mutabilitie : For all that moveth doth in change delight: But thence-forth all shall rest eternally With Him that is the God of Sabbaoth hight: O that great Sabbaoth God graunt me that Sabaoths sight!
Page 238 - And if to those ^Egyptian wisards old (Which in star-read were wont have best insight) Faith may be given, it is by them told That since the time they first tooke .the sunnes hight, Foure times his place he shifted hath in sight, And twice hath risen where he now doth west, And wested twice where he ought rise aright.
Page 251 - Yet is he nought but parting of the breath; Ne ought to see, but like a shade to weene, Unbodied, unsoul'd, unheard, unseene...
Page 154 - It is the mynd that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happie, rich or poore; For some, that hath abundance at his will, Hath not enough, but wants in greatest store, And other, that hath...
Page 268 - Or weigh the thought that from mans mind doth flow But if the weight of these thou canst not show, Weigh but one word which from thy lips doth fall : For how canst thou those greater secrets know, That doest not know the least thing of them all ? Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
Page 254 - Then since within this wide great universe Nothing doth firme and permanent appeare, But all things tost and turned by transverse: What then should let, but I aloft should reare My trophee, and from all the triumph beare? Now...
Page 13 - And all within, the riven walls were hung With ragged monuments of times forepast, All which the sad effects of discord sung...
Page 6 - OF Court, it seemes, men Courtesie doe call, For that it there most useth to abound ; And well beseemeth that in princes hall That vertue should be plentifully found, Which of all goodly manners is the ground, And roote of civill conversation...
Page 98 - His name was Care ; a blacksmith by his trade, That neither day nor night from working spared, But to small purpose yron wedges made ; Those be unquiet thoughts that carefull minds invade.
Page 3 - The waies, through which my weary steps I guyde, In this delightfull land of Faery, Are so exceeding spacious and wyde, And sprinckled with such sweet variety, Of all that pleasant is to eare or eye...