The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 1C. C. Little and J. Brown, 1839 |
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Page xvii
... gentle stream , the which them bare , Seem'd foule to them , and bad his billowes spare To wet their silken feathers . " The same year was distinguished by the appearance of the second part of " The Faerie Queene , " consisting of three ...
... gentle stream , the which them bare , Seem'd foule to them , and bad his billowes spare To wet their silken feathers . " The same year was distinguished by the appearance of the second part of " The Faerie Queene , " consisting of three ...
Page xxii
... gentle discipline . " This was a noble design ; but whether , at this period , an uninterrupted series of knightly adventures was calculated to effect it , may be disputed . The poet thus proceeds in the explanation of his plan ...
... gentle discipline . " This was a noble design ; but whether , at this period , an uninterrupted series of knightly adventures was calculated to effect it , may be disputed . The poet thus proceeds in the explanation of his plan ...
Page xxviii
... gentle warbling wind low answered to all . " B. II . , c . XII . , s . LXXI . But the reader can hardly open any one of the books without meeting with subjects for admiration , especially in the First and Second : the Fourth Book , the ...
... gentle warbling wind low answered to all . " B. II . , c . XII . , s . LXXI . But the reader can hardly open any one of the books without meeting with subjects for admiration , especially in the First and Second : the Fourth Book , the ...
Page xxix
... gentle philosophy , " as Ben Jonson expresses it , " which leads on and guides us by the hand to action , with a ravishing delight and incredible sweetness , " such dark conceits are better avoided ; unless indeed the truths to be ...
... gentle philosophy , " as Ben Jonson expresses it , " which leads on and guides us by the hand to action , with a ravishing delight and incredible sweetness , " such dark conceits are better avoided ; unless indeed the truths to be ...
Page xli
... gentle serenity of her temper , would have made her insipid in the hands of an inferior artist ; but what we see in her is the repose of heaven , and not the apathy of earth ; and the tranquillity of the stream comes from its depth ...
... gentle serenity of her temper , would have made her insipid in the hands of an inferior artist ; but what we see in her is the repose of heaven , and not the apathy of earth ; and the tranquillity of the stream comes from its depth ...
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Page xxxii - The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: Thou maintainest my lot. The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.
Page 42 - He, making speedy way through spersed ayre, And through the world of waters wide and deepe, To Morpheus house doth hastily repaire. Amid the bowels of the earth full steepe, And low, where dawning day doth never peepe, His dwelling is ; there Tethys his wet bed Doth ever wash, and Cynthia still doth steepe In silver deaw his ever-drouping hed, Whiles sad Night over him her mantle black doth spred.
Page 32 - The Laurell, meed of mightie Conquerours And Poets sage ; the Firre that weepeth still ; The Willow worne of forlorne Paramours ; The Eugh, obedient to the benders will ; The Birch for shaftes ; the Sallow for the mill ; The Mirrhe sweete-bleeding in the bitter wound ; The Warlike Beech ; the Ash for nothing ill ; The fruitfull Olive ; and the Platane round ; The carver Holme ; the Maple seeldom inward sound.
Page 32 - Joying to heare the birdes sweete harmony, Which, therein shrouded from the tempest dred, Seemd in their song to scorne the cruell sky. Much can they praise the trees so straight and hy, The sayling Pine...
Page 30 - A lovely Ladie rode him faire beside, Upon a lowly Asse more white then snow, Yet she much whiter ; but the same did hide Under a vele, that wimpled...
Page xlix - THREE years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, 'A lovelier flower On earth was never sown ! This child I to myself will take ; She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own. 'Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse ; and with me The girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain.
Page xxxiii - If music and sweet poetry agree, As they must needs, the sister and the brother, Then must the love be great 'twixt thee and me, Because thou lov'st the one, and I the other. Dowland to thee is dear, whose heavenly touch Upon the lute doth ravish human sense ; Spenser to me, whose deep conceit is such, As, passing all conceit, needs no defence.
Page 67 - Soone as the royall virgin he did spy, With gaping mouth at her ran greedily, To have attonce devourd her tender corse ; But to the pray when as he drew more ny, His bloody rage aswaged with remorse, And, with the sight amazd, forgat his furious forse. In stead thereof he kist her wearie feet, And lickt her lilly hands with fawning tong, As he her wronged innocence did weet.
Page 3 - Queene, being a continued allegory, or darke conceit, I have thought good, as well for avoyding of gealous opinions and misconstructions, as also for your better light in reading thereof (being so by you commanded), to discover unto you the general intention and meaning, which in the whole course thereof I have fashioned, without expressing of any particular purposes, or by-accidents therein occasioned.
Page 4 - But such, me seeme, should be satisfide with the use of these dayes, seeing all things accounted by their showes, and nothing esteemed of, that is not delightfull and pleasing to commune sence.