The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 1C. C. Little and J. Brown, 1839 |
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... lands of the Earl of Desmond , as a reward for his services ; and , in compliance with one of the conditions annexed to that grant , he returned to Ireland for the purpose of cultivating the land assigned to him . The castle of ...
... lands of the Earl of Desmond , as a reward for his services ; and , in compliance with one of the conditions annexed to that grant , he returned to Ireland for the purpose of cultivating the land assigned to him . The castle of ...
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... land , In lines so elegant , of such command , That had the Thracian plaid but halfe so well , He had not left Eurydice in hell . But , e're he ended his melodious song , An host of Angels flew the clouds among , And rapt this swan from ...
... land , In lines so elegant , of such command , That had the Thracian plaid but halfe so well , He had not left Eurydice in hell . But , e're he ended his melodious song , An host of Angels flew the clouds among , And rapt this swan from ...
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... land , " and to point out reme- dies for them . In the course of his investigations , Spenser enters at some length into the early history and antiquities of the Irish : he displays a good deal of penetration in detecting the sources of ...
... land , " and to point out reme- dies for them . In the course of his investigations , Spenser enters at some length into the early history and antiquities of the Irish : he displays a good deal of penetration in detecting the sources of ...
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... land like the genius of an Arabian story , half enveloped in clouds , and rendered more gigantic and imposing from its partial obscurity . Of this fleeting form Spenser has drawn a lasting picture , which he has adorned with the richest ...
... land like the genius of an Arabian story , half enveloped in clouds , and rendered more gigantic and imposing from its partial obscurity . Of this fleeting form Spenser has drawn a lasting picture , which he has adorned with the richest ...
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... Land of Faery . " The conclusion is , that , as an allegorical poem , the method of The Faerie Queene ' is governed by the justness of the moral : as a narrative poem , it is conducted on the ideas and usages of chivalry . In either ...
... Land of Faery . " The conclusion is , that , as an allegorical poem , the method of The Faerie Queene ' is governed by the justness of the moral : as a narrative poem , it is conducted on the ideas and usages of chivalry . In either ...
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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.