The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: With Memoir and Critical Dissertations, Volume 2J. Nichol, 1859 |
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... brought letters to the Queen's Majesty from Sir Henry Norris , her Majesty's ambassador in France , being at Thouars in the same realm ; " but surely , if it was the poet who was thus employed , he must have been older than sixteen . We ...
... brought letters to the Queen's Majesty from Sir Henry Norris , her Majesty's ambassador in France , being at Thouars in the same realm ; " but surely , if it was the poet who was thus employed , he must have been older than sixteen . We ...
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... thought . At last him to a little door he brought , That to the gate of hell , which gaped wide , Was next adjoining , ne 5 them parted ought : Betwixt them both was but a little stride , [ 8 B. II . SPENSER'S POETICAL WORKS .
... thought . At last him to a little door he brought , That to the gate of hell , which gaped wide , Was next adjoining , ne 5 them parted ought : Betwixt them both was but a little stride , [ 8 B. II . SPENSER'S POETICAL WORKS .
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... brought Unto another room , whose door forthright To him did open as it had been taught : Therein an hundred ranges weren pight , 5 An hundred furnaces all burning bright ; By every furnace many fiends did bide , Deformed creatures ...
... brought Unto another room , whose door forthright To him did open as it had been taught : Therein an hundred ranges weren pight , 5 An hundred furnaces all burning bright ; By every furnace many fiends did bide , Deformed creatures ...
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... brought him , through a darksome narrow strait , To a broad gate all built of beaten gold : The gate was open ; but therein did wait A sturdy villain , striding stiff and bold , As if the Highest God defy he would : In his right hand an ...
... brought him , through a darksome narrow strait , To a broad gate all built of beaten gold : The gate was open ; but therein did wait A sturdy villain , striding stiff and bold , As if the Highest God defy he would : In his right hand an ...
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... brought him in . The room was large and wide As it some guild or solemn temple were ; Many great golden pillars did upbear The massy roof , and riches huge sustain ; And every pillar decked was full dear 8 With crowns , and diadems ...
... brought him in . The room was large and wide As it some guild or solemn temple were ; Many great golden pillars did upbear The massy roof , and riches huge sustain ; And every pillar decked was full dear 8 With crowns , and diadems ...
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amongst arms beast behold blood bold Britomart Britons brought called CANTO Churl Corineus courser cruel dame damsel daughter deadly dear death deeds delight dismay'd doth dreadful Edmund Spenser Eftsoons Elfin Knight ensample espied evermore eyes Faerie Queene Faery Knight fair fair ladies false fast fear fell fierce flame fled Florimell foul Gabriel Harvey gentle golden goodly grace grief ground Guyon hand haste hath heart heaven heavenly honour huge Jupiter king knight lady late light Locrine lust maid Mammon mighty mortal Ne¹ never nigh noble nought nymph pain palmer Paridell poet praise Prince quoth rest Satyrane secret seem'd shame shield sight Sith sleep soon sore sorrow spear Spenser sprite squire steed strange sweet thee thence things thou twixt unto unwares vile wanton warlike weary ween whenas wicked wondrous wound wretched XLIII XXVII XXXVIII
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Page 22 - O th' exceeding grace Of highest God ! that loves his creatures so, And all his works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed angels he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe. " How oft do they their silver bowers leave To come to succour us, that succour want ? How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies, like flying pursuivant Against foul fiends, to aid us militant? They for us fight, they watch and duly ward, And their bright squadrons round about us...
Page 119 - Eftsoones they heard a most melodious sound, Of all that mote delight a dainty ear, Such as at once might not on living ground, Save in this paradise, be heard elsewhere : Right hard it was for wight which did it hear, To...
Page xv - If so be the Faerye Queene be fairer in your eie than the Nine Muses, and Hobgoblin runne away with the Garland from Apollo: Marke what I saye, and yet I will not say that I thought, but there an End for this once, and fare you well, till God or some good Aungell putte you in a better minde (Ibid., pp.
Page 22 - Of men than beasts ; but oh ! the exceeding grace Of highest God ! that loves his creatures so, And all his works with mercy doth embrace. That blessed angels he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe.
Page 109 - All those, and all that els does horror breed, About them flew, and fild their sayles with feare : Yet stayd they not, but forward did proceed, Whiles th...
Page 120 - Ah see, whoso fair thing dost fain to see, In springing flower the image of thy day; Ah see the virgin rose, how sweetly she Doth first peep forth with bashful modesty, That fairer seems, the less ye see her may; Lo see soon after, how more bold and free Her bared bosom she doth broad display; Lo see soon after, how she fades, and falls away.
Page 17 - Cypresse grew in greatest store, And trees of bitter Gall, and Heben sad ; Dead sleeping Poppy, and black Hellebore ; Cold Coloquintida, and Tetra mad ; Mortal! Samnitis, and Cicuta bad, With which th...
Page 345 - With matchlesse eares deformed and distort, Fild with false rumors and seditious trouble, Bred in assemblies of the vulgar sort, •That still are led with every light report: And as her eares, so eke her feet were odde, And much unlike ; th' one long, the other short, And both misplast; that, when th
Page viii - At length they all to merry London came, To merry London, my most kindly nurse, That to me gave this life's first native source, Though from another place I take my name. An house of ancient fame: There when they came whereas those bricky towers The which on Thames
Page 120 - So passeth in the passing of a day Of mortal life the leaf, the bud, the flower: Ne more doth flourish after first decay, That erst was sought to deck both bed and bower Of many a lady and many a paramour! Gather therefore the rose whilst yet is prime. For soon comes age that will her pride deflower; Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time, Whilst loving thou mayst loved be with equal crime...