The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volumes 3-4Houghton, Osgood, 1878 |
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... backe to former ages , And call to count the things that then were donne , Shall find that all the workes of those wise sages , And brave exploits which great heroes wonne , In love were either ended or begunne : Witnesse the Father of ...
... backe to former ages , And call to count the things that then were donne , Shall find that all the workes of those wise sages , And brave exploits which great heroes wonne , In love were either ended or begunne : Witnesse the Father of ...
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... backe and all her bodie wound : Like as the shining skie in summers night , What time the dayes with scorching heat abound , Is creasted all with lines of firie light , That it prodigious seemes in common peoples sight . 14 Such when ...
... backe and all her bodie wound : Like as the shining skie in summers night , What time the dayes with scorching heat abound , Is creasted all with lines of firie light , That it prodigious seemes in common peoples sight . 14 Such when ...
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... backe retired and contrárie trode . 29 Likewise unequall were her handës twaine ; That one did reach , the other pusht away ; That one did make , the other mard againe , And sought to bring all things unto decay ; Whereby great riches ...
... backe retired and contrárie trode . 29 Likewise unequall were her handës twaine ; That one did reach , the other pusht away ; That one did make , the other mard againe , And sought to bring all things unto decay ; Whereby great riches ...
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... Earl of Northumberland is meant by Blandamour , Hotspur being the name given to young Percy in the reign of Henry V. , as every reader of Shakespeare knows . H. They reared him on horse - backe and upstayd , BOOK IV . CANTO I. 19.
... Earl of Northumberland is meant by Blandamour , Hotspur being the name given to young Percy in the reign of Henry V. , as every reader of Shakespeare knows . H. They reared him on horse - backe and upstayd , BOOK IV . CANTO I. 19.
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Edmund Spenser Francis James Child. They reared him on horse - backe and upstayd , Till on his way they had him forth convayd : And all the way , with wondrous griefe of mynd And shame , he shewd himselfe to be dismayd More for the Love ...
Edmund Spenser Francis James Child. They reared him on horse - backe and upstayd , Till on his way they had him forth convayd : And all the way , with wondrous griefe of mynd And shame , he shewd himselfe to be dismayd More for the Love ...
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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.
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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...
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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...