The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 1C. C. Little and J. Brown, 1839 |
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... Whiles sad Night over him her mantle black doth spred . XL . Whose double gates he findeth locked fast ; The one faire fram'd of brunisht3 yvory , The other all with silver overcast ; 1 Fray , alarm . 2 Spersed , dispersed . 3 Brunisht ...
... Whiles sad Night over him her mantle black doth spred . XL . Whose double gates he findeth locked fast ; The one faire fram'd of brunisht3 yvory , The other all with silver overcast ; 1 Fray , alarm . 2 Spersed , dispersed . 3 Brunisht ...
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... Whiles you in carelesse sleepe are drowned quight . " Her doubtfull words made that redoubted Knight Suspect her truth ; yet since no ' untruth he knew , Her fawning love with foule disdainefull spight He would not shend ; 2 but said ...
... Whiles you in carelesse sleepe are drowned quight . " Her doubtfull words made that redoubted Knight Suspect her truth ; yet since no ' untruth he knew , Her fawning love with foule disdainefull spight He would not shend ; 2 but said ...
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... whiles wicked wights Have knit themselves in Venus shameful chaine : Come , see where your false Lady doth her honor staine . " V. All in a maze he suddenly up start With sword in hand , and with the old man went ; Who soone him brought ...
... whiles wicked wights Have knit themselves in Venus shameful chaine : Come , see where your false Lady doth her honor staine . " V. All in a maze he suddenly up start With sword in hand , and with the old man went ; Who soone him brought ...
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... whiles he livde , was called proud Sansfoy , The eldest of three brethren ; all three bred Of one bad sire , whose youngest is Sansioy ; And twixt them both was born the bloudy bold Sansloy . XXVI . " In this sad plight , friendlesse ...
... whiles he livde , was called proud Sansfoy , The eldest of three brethren ; all three bred Of one bad sire , whose youngest is Sansioy ; And twixt them both was born the bloudy bold Sansloy . XXVI . " In this sad plight , friendlesse ...
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... Whiles none the holy things in safety kept , Then he by conning sleights in at the window crept . XVIII . And all , that he by right or wrong could find , Unto this house he brought , and did bestow Upon the daughter of this woman blind ...
... Whiles none the holy things in safety kept , Then he by conning sleights in at the window crept . XVIII . And all , that he by right or wrong could find , Unto this house he brought , and did bestow Upon the daughter of this woman blind ...
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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.