 For naturall affection soone doth cesse, And quenched is with Cupids greater flame : But faithfull friendship doth them both suppresse, And them with maystring discipline doth tame, Through thoughts aspyring to eternall fame. For as the soule doth rule...  The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser - Page 203by Edmund Spenser - 1891Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Spenser - 1909 - 544 pages
...Knights 1596 i 8 vertuous J vertues 7/otf 9 hart, 7/96, 1609 For naturall affection soone doth cesse, n And quenched is with Cupids greater flame : But faithfull...the soule doth rule the earthly masse, And all the seruice of the bodie frame, So loue of soule doth loue of bodie passe, No lesse then perfect gold surmounts... | |
 | Henry Clay Trumbull - Friendship - 1912 - 424 pages
...with Cupid's greater flame; But faithfull frendship doth them both suppresse, And them with maystring2 discipline doth tame. Through thoughts aspyring to...frame ; So love of soule doth love of bodie passe, No lesse than perfecl gold surmounts the meanest brasse." Shirley is equally sure that there is no... | |
 | Charles Crawford - English poetry - 1913 - 614 pages
...tempteth fortune. Ch. Fitz leffrey. Friendship. Friends. 549 The naturall affection soone doth cease, And quenched is with Cupids greater flame : But faithfull...friendship doth them both suppresse : And them with maistring discipline doth tame Through thoughts aspiring, to eternall fame. Ed. Spencer. 550 In friendship,... | |
 | J. A. N. Knuttel - Dutch literature - 1913 - 290 pages
...overtreft haar beide, en weetze, na een eeuwige faam tochtende, met meesterlike tuchtlessen te beheerschen. For as the soule doth rule the earthly masse, And all the service of the body frame; So love of soule doth love of body passe ; No lesse then perfect gold surmounts the meanest... | |
 | Hans Kliem - English literature - 1915 - 72 pages
...Versen: Friendship, Friends. The naturall affection soone doth cease, And quenched is with Cupid's greater flame: But faithfull Friendship doth them both suppresse, And them with maistring discipline doth tame, Through thoughts aspiring to eternall fame5). ') Montaigne, Essays,... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1916 - 250 pages
...case at any rate, it is evident that Spenser means by friendship the enthusiastic rapture of Plato. " But faithfull friendship doth them both suppresse,...doth tame, Through thoughts aspyring to eternall fame : Far as the soul doth rule the earthly masse, And all the service of the body frame, So love of soule... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Great Britain - 1919 - 762 pages
...ii, 124-127. — ED.] 13. loue of soule] RUSHTON (Sh. Ittust. by Old Authors, pt ii, p. 3) quotes: ' For as the soule doth rule the earthly masse And all...bodie frame, So love of soule doth love of bodie passe No lesse than perfect gold surmounts the meanest brasse.' — Faerie Queene, IV, ix, 2. — [SCHMIDT... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1919 - 756 pages
...ii, 124-127. — ED.] 13. loue of soule] RUSHTON (Sh. Ittust. by Old Authors, pt ii, p. 3) quotes: 'For as the soule doth rule the earthly masse And...bodie frame, So love of soule doth love of bodie passe No lesse than perfect gold surmounts the meanest brasse.' — Faerie Queene, IV, ix, 2. — [SCHMIDT... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1922 - 310 pages
...vertuous mind Me seemes the gentle hart should most assured bind. For naturall affection soone doth cesse, And quenched is with Cupids greater flame: But faithfull...frame. So love of soule doth love of bodie passe, | No lesse then perfect gold surmounts the meanest brasse." I never yet... woman. Between the writing... | |
 | Languages, Modern - 1875 - 996 pages
...ward, Thnt none of fhem in his soft flesh did bite (6. 5. 18). For naturall affection soon doth cesse And quenched is with Cupids greater flame: But faithfull...suppresse, And them with maystring discipline doth tarne, . . For äs ihe sonle doth rule the earthly masse . . So love of soule doth love of bodie passe... | |
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