The Faerie Queene, Book 1University Press, 1928 - 294 pages |
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Page ix
... Grace : " Ay me , ' how many perils doe enfold The righteous man , to make him daily fall ? Were not , that heavenly grace doth him uphold , And stedfast truth acquite him out of all1 . ” The wicked Duessa is stripped and exposed . In ...
... Grace : " Ay me , ' how many perils doe enfold The righteous man , to make him daily fall ? Were not , that heavenly grace doth him uphold , And stedfast truth acquite him out of all1 . ” The wicked Duessa is stripped and exposed . In ...
Page xv
... grace did take , And was possessed of his new found make . Then up he tooke the slombred sencelesse corse , 66 And in a Dongeon deepe him threw without remorse1 . " Could any words describe the political situation better as it certainly ...
... grace did take , And was possessed of his new found make . Then up he tooke the slombred sencelesse corse , 66 And in a Dongeon deepe him threw without remorse1 . " Could any words describe the political situation better as it certainly ...
Page l
... grace , the formalism of the old poems but , as in the case of the romances , he adds a depth of meaning which is all his own . There are many examples also in the other books of the poem ; there are two - the House of Temperance and 1 ...
... grace , the formalism of the old poems but , as in the case of the romances , he adds a depth of meaning which is all his own . There are many examples also in the other books of the poem ; there are two - the House of Temperance and 1 ...
Page lxii
... grace to have2 . " The wood of Error represents those entanglements in which the soul of man is enwrapped and involved during its life upon earth , but Truth is his inspiration and assists him to overcome . The story of the false image ...
... grace to have2 . " The wood of Error represents those entanglements in which the soul of man is enwrapped and involved during its life upon earth , but Truth is his inspiration and assists him to overcome . The story of the false image ...
Page lxvi
... grace that old man to him given had ; For God he often saw from heavens hight , All were his earthly eyen both blunt and bad , And through great age had lost their kindly sight , Yet wondrous quick and persant was his spright , As ...
... grace that old man to him given had ; For God he often saw from heavens hight , All were his earthly eyen both blunt and bad , And through great age had lost their kindly sight , Yet wondrous quick and persant was his spright , As ...
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Page 291 - Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?
Page 223 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to...
Page 279 - But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: and thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.
Page 287 - Nay, their endeavour keeps in the wonted pace : but there is, sir, an aery of children, little eyases, that cry out on the top of question, and are most tyrannically clapped for 't : these are now the fashion, and so berattle the common stages— so they call them— that many wearing rapiers are afraid of goose-quills and dare scarce come thither.
Page 286 - Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God : and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
Page 222 - Vanity Will sicken soon and die, And leprous Sin will melt from earthly mould ; And Hell itself will pass away, And leave her dolorous mansions to the peering day.
Page 239 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat...
Page 12 - At length they chaunst to meet upon the way An aged Sire, in long blacke weedes yclad, His feete, all bare, his beard all hoarie gray And by his belt his booke he hanging had...
Page 248 - The firste moevere of the cause above Whan he first made the faire cheyne of love, Greet was theffect, and heigh was his entente; Wel wiste he, why, and what therof he mente, For with that faire cheyne of love he bond The fyr, the eyr, the water, and the lond, In certeyn boundes that they may nat flee.
Page 286 - Into the Euboic sea. Others more mild, Retreated in a silent valley, sing With notes angelical to many a harp Their own heroic deeds and hapless fall By doom of battle; and complain that fate Free virtue should enthrall to force or chance.