The Poetical Works of Edmund SpenserHenry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1916 - 736 pages |
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... eyes of Acrasia are like the starry light Which sparckling on the silent waues , does seeme more bright . ( II . xii . 78. ) C C The beauty of women again and again suggests to him imaginative effects of light and shade . The angel face ...
... eyes of Acrasia are like the starry light Which sparckling on the silent waues , does seeme more bright . ( II . xii . 78. ) C C The beauty of women again and again suggests to him imaginative effects of light and shade . The angel face ...
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... eyes did lacke , And creeping sought way in the weedy gras : Her filthy parbreake all the place defiled has . 21 As when old father Nilus gins to swell With timely pride aboue the Aegyptian vale , His fattie waues do fertile slime ...
... eyes did lacke , And creeping sought way in the weedy gras : Her filthy parbreake all the place defiled has . 21 As when old father Nilus gins to swell With timely pride aboue the Aegyptian vale , His fattie waues do fertile slime ...
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... eyes these lines with teares do steepe , To thinke how she through guilefull handeling , Though true as touch ... eye of heauen shyned bright , And made a sunshine in the shadie place ; Did neuer mortall eye behold such heauenly ...
... eyes these lines with teares do steepe , To thinke how she through guilefull handeling , Though true as touch ... eye of heauen shyned bright , And made a sunshine in the shadie place ; Did neuer mortall eye behold such heauenly ...
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... eyes , halfe loth to looke so low , She thanked them in her disdainefull wise , Ne other grace vouchsafed them to show Of Princesse worthy , scarse them bad arise . Her Lordes and Ladies all this while deuise Themselues to setten forth ...
... eyes , halfe loth to looke so low , She thanked them in her disdainefull wise , Ne other grace vouchsafed them to show Of Princesse worthy , scarse them bad arise . Her Lordes and Ladies all this while deuise Themselues to setten forth ...
Page 21
... eyes ( the signe of gelosy , ) Was like the person selfe , whom he did beare : Who rough , and blacke , and filthy did appeare , Vnseemely man to please faire Ladies eye ; Yet he of Ladies oft was loued deare , When fairer faces were ...
... eyes ( the signe of gelosy , ) Was like the person selfe , whom he did beare : Who rough , and blacke , and filthy did appeare , Vnseemely man to please faire Ladies eye ; Yet he of Ladies oft was loued deare , When fairer faces were ...
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