The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 1C. C. Little and J. Brown, 1839 |
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... late more in love with my English versifying than with rhyming ; which I should have done long since if I would then have followed your counsel . " To this letter he subjoins a specimen , which by no means makes us regret that he did ...
... late more in love with my English versifying than with rhyming ; which I should have done long since if I would then have followed your counsel . " To this letter he subjoins a specimen , which by no means makes us regret that he did ...
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... Homers spright did tremble all for griefe , And curst th ' accesse of that celestiall Theife . W. R. * " Methought I saw my late espoused saint . " - MILTON . Another of the same . THE prayse of meaner wits Verses addressed to the Author.
... Homers spright did tremble all for griefe , And curst th ' accesse of that celestiall Theife . W. R. * " Methought I saw my late espoused saint . " - MILTON . Another of the same . THE prayse of meaner wits Verses addressed to the Author.
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... late assaies , ) 1 Yet brave ensample of long passed daies , In which trew honor ye may fashiond see , To like desire of honor may ye raise , And fill your mind with magnanimitee . Receive it , Lord , therefore as it was ment , For ...
... late assaies , ) 1 Yet brave ensample of long passed daies , In which trew honor ye may fashiond see , To like desire of honor may ye raise , And fill your mind with magnanimitee . Receive it , Lord , therefore as it was ment , For ...
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... late To wish you backe returne with foule disgrace , Yet wisedome warnes , whilest foot is in the gate , To stay the steppe , ere forced to retrate . This is the wandring wood , this Errours den , A monster vile , whom God and man does ...
... late To wish you backe returne with foule disgrace , Yet wisedome warnes , whilest foot is in the gate , To stay the steppe , ere forced to retrate . This is the wandring wood , this Errours den , A monster vile , whom God and man does ...
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... late beguiled guest : - In mighty armes he was yclad anon , And silver shield ; upon his coward brest A bloody crosse , and on his craven crest A bounch of heares discolourd diversly . Full iolly Knight he seemde , and wel addrest ; And ...
... late beguiled guest : - In mighty armes he was yclad anon , And silver shield ; upon his coward brest A bloody crosse , and on his craven crest A bounch of heares discolourd diversly . Full iolly Knight he seemde , and wel addrest ; And ...
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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.