The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volumes 3-4Houghton, Osgood, 1878 |
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... wise sages , And brave exploits which great heroes wonne , In love were either ended or begunne : Witnesse the Father of Philosophie , 2 Which to his Critias , shaded oft from sunne , Of love full manie lessons did apply , The which ...
... wise sages , And brave exploits which great heroes wonne , In love were either ended or begunne : Witnesse the Father of Philosophie , 2 Which to his Critias , shaded oft from sunne , Of love full manie lessons did apply , The which ...
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... wise , that could deserve No spot of blame , though spite did oft assay To blot her with dishonor of so faire a pray . s Yet should it be a pleasant tale , to tell The diverse usage , and demeanure daint , 1 Bestedded , assisted . 2 ...
... wise , that could deserve No spot of blame , though spite did oft assay To blot her with dishonor of so faire a pray . s Yet should it be a pleasant tale , to tell The diverse usage , and demeanure daint , 1 Bestedded , assisted . 2 ...
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... wise To them appear'd , with shield and armour fit ; Some , that it was a maske of strange disguise : So diversely each one did sundrie doubts devise . 15 But that young Knight , which through her gentle deed Was to that goodly ...
... wise To them appear'd , with shield and armour fit ; Some , that it was a maske of strange disguise : So diversely each one did sundrie doubts devise . 15 But that young Knight , which through her gentle deed Was to that goodly ...
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... wise appeare . 18 The one of them the false Duessa hight , That now had chang'd her former wonted hew ; For she could d'on so manie shapes in sight , As ever could cameleon colours new ; So could she forge all colours , save the trew ...
... wise appeare . 18 The one of them the false Duessa hight , That now had chang'd her former wonted hew ; For she could d'on so manie shapes in sight , As ever could cameleon colours new ; So could she forge all colours , save the trew ...
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... wise I never held , That , having once escaped perill neare , Would afterwards afresh the sleeping evill reare . " 1 Whether , which of the two . 2 Paragon , companion . 8 Fond , found , felt . 5 Weld , wield . 6 Lust , desire . 7 Reare ...
... wise I never held , That , having once escaped perill neare , Would afterwards afresh the sleeping evill reare . " 1 Whether , which of the two . 2 Paragon , companion . 8 Fond , found , felt . 5 Weld , wield . 6 Lust , desire . 7 Reare ...
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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...