The Faerie Queene, Book 1University Press, 1928 - 294 pages |
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Page ix
... once more upon his quest . He succeeds in his great task , slays the dragon of Sin and is rewarded by his marriage to Truth , typifying without doubt the final acceptance of Protestantism by the English nation . It remains to be asked ...
... once more upon his quest . He succeeds in his great task , slays the dragon of Sin and is rewarded by his marriage to Truth , typifying without doubt the final acceptance of Protestantism by the English nation . It remains to be asked ...
Page xv
... once began , all embrewd in bloud , his eyes did shine as glas , " and which the popular opinion ascribed , naturally enough , to the influence of Philip . 66 When Una hears the terrible news of her knight's evil plight she falls ...
... once began , all embrewd in bloud , his eyes did shine as glas , " and which the popular opinion ascribed , naturally enough , to the influence of Philip . 66 When Una hears the terrible news of her knight's evil plight she falls ...
Page xviii
... once when he had been sent on an embassy to Francis I of France he was so insolent that Francis , the most courteous of monarchs , told him that , if it were not for his master , he would have had a hundred strokes of the halberd 2 . 66 ...
... once when he had been sent on an embassy to Francis I of France he was so insolent that Francis , the most courteous of monarchs , told him that , if it were not for his master , he would have had a hundred strokes of the halberd 2 . 66 ...
Page xx
... once more the bitter and skilful enemy of Una . There is only one man who really fulfils these conditions and that is Stephen Gardiner , the Bishop of Winchester . Froude describes his character as follows : " The Bishop of Winchester ...
... once more the bitter and skilful enemy of Una . There is only one man who really fulfils these conditions and that is Stephen Gardiner , the Bishop of Winchester . Froude describes his character as follows : " The Bishop of Winchester ...
Page xxv
... once he would not move , nor quich1 at all . " When we turn to the adventures of the Redcrosse Knight we come across the extraordinary incident of Fraelissa and Fradubio turned to trees . 66 " " It probably refers to the story of ...
... once he would not move , nor quich1 at all . " When we turn to the adventures of the Redcrosse Knight we come across the extraordinary incident of Fraelissa and Fradubio turned to trees . 66 " " It probably refers to the story of ...
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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.