The Faerie Queene, Book 1University Press, 1928 - 294 pages |
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... hope , find material which may be of service to them in the task of understanding and explaining Spenser . The historical interpretation of the allegory in Book I is , I believe , the most important contribution I have been able to make ...
... hope , find material which may be of service to them in the task of understanding and explaining Spenser . The historical interpretation of the allegory in Book I is , I believe , the most important contribution I have been able to make ...
Page ix
... Hope and Charity ; he leads for some time a life of contemplation and then , strengthened and refreshed , is ready to set out once more upon his quest . He succeeds in his great task , slays the dragon of Sin and is rewarded by his ...
... Hope and Charity ; he leads for some time a life of contemplation and then , strengthened and refreshed , is ready to set out once more upon his quest . He succeeds in his great task , slays the dragon of Sin and is rewarded by his ...
Page xxvii
... hope to winne his Ladies heart that day , Forth spurred fast " . " They fight and Sansfoy is slain , his head being cleft . 66 He tumbling downe alive , With bloudy mouth his mother earth did kis , Greeting his grave3 . " This deed ...
... hope to winne his Ladies heart that day , Forth spurred fast " . " They fight and Sansfoy is slain , his head being cleft . 66 He tumbling downe alive , With bloudy mouth his mother earth did kis , Greeting his grave3 . " This deed ...
Page xxxv
... hope and would not permit her to perish without substantial evidence . We may now compare with Spenser . The name " Sans- loy " is , in itself , appropriate to Courtenay because of his exceedingly dissolute and licentious life , and ...
... hope and would not permit her to perish without substantial evidence . We may now compare with Spenser . The name " Sans- loy " is , in itself , appropriate to Courtenay because of his exceedingly dissolute and licentious life , and ...
Page xxxvi
... hope to bring her to her last decay1 . " This , being interpreted , in all probability means that Gardiner watches with joy the quarrels between the con- spirators ( Courtenay seems to have been continually at odds with the rest ) , but ...
... hope to bring her to her last decay1 . " This , being interpreted , in all probability means that Gardiner watches with joy the quarrels between the con- spirators ( Courtenay seems to have been continually at odds with the rest ) , but ...
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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.