The Works of Spenser: In Six Volumes. With a Glossary Explaining the Old and Obscure Words. To which is Prefix'd the Life of the Author, and an Essay on Allegorical Poetry, by Mr. Hughes. ...J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1750 |
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... Names to fleep in filence and forgetfulness . Whom chiefly to fatisfy , or elfe to avoid that foul Blot of Unthankfulness , I have conceived this fmall Poem , intituled , by a general name , of The World's Ruines : yet Specially ...
... Names to fleep in filence and forgetfulness . Whom chiefly to fatisfy , or elfe to avoid that foul Blot of Unthankfulness , I have conceived this fmall Poem , intituled , by a general name , of The World's Ruines : yet Specially ...
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... Name of her request . Name have I none ( quoth fhe ) nor any Being , Bereft of both by Fates unjuft decreeing . I was that City , which the Garland wore Of Britain's Pride , delivered unto me By Roman Victors , which it won of yore ...
... Name of her request . Name have I none ( quoth fhe ) nor any Being , Bereft of both by Fates unjuft decreeing . I was that City , which the Garland wore Of Britain's Pride , delivered unto me By Roman Victors , which it won of yore ...
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... Name To be remembred of Pofterity , Save one , that maugre Fortune's Injury , And Time's Decay , and Envy's cruel Tort , Hath writ my Record in true - feeming fort . Cambden , the Nourice of Antiquity , And Lanthorn unto late fucceeding ...
... Name To be remembred of Pofterity , Save one , that maugre Fortune's Injury , And Time's Decay , and Envy's cruel Tort , Hath writ my Record in true - feeming fort . Cambden , the Nourice of Antiquity , And Lanthorn unto late fucceeding ...
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... quite , fo foon as it was fought : His Name is worn already out of thought , Ne any Poet feeks him to revive ; Yet many Poets honour'd him alive , VOL , VI . B Ne doth his Colin , carelefs Colin Clout , Care The Ruines of Time . 13.
... quite , fo foon as it was fought : His Name is worn already out of thought , Ne any Poet feeks him to revive ; Yet many Poets honour'd him alive , VOL , VI . B Ne doth his Colin , carelefs Colin Clout , Care The Ruines of Time . 13.
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... Names fhall of the later Age be heard , But fhall in rufty Darkness ever lie , Unless they mention'd be with Infamy . What booteth it to have been rich alive ? What to be great ? what to be gracious ? When after Death no Token doth ...
... Names fhall of the later Age be heard , But fhall in rufty Darkness ever lie , Unless they mention'd be with Infamy . What booteth it to have been rich alive ? What to be great ? what to be gracious ? When after Death no Token doth ...
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Page 154 - Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked like anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves...
Page 126 - ... to their lovers; that his music was not the harp nor lays of love, but the cries of people and clashing of armour; and finally, that he died not bewailed of many, but made many wail when he died, that dearly bought his death.
Page 104 - Iren. Because the commodity doth not countervail the discommodity; for the inconveniences which thereby do arise are much more many; for it is a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief.
Page 125 - ... seldom use to choose unto themselves the doings of good men for the arguments of their poems, but whomsoever they find to be most licentious of life, most bold and lawless in his doings, most dangerous and desperate in all parts of disobedience and rebellious disposition; him they set up and glorify in their rithmes, him they praise to the people, and to young men make an example to follow.
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Page 126 - ... under his mantle, but used commonly to keep others waking to defend their lives, and did light his candle at the flames of their houses to lead him in the darkness; that the day was his night, and the night his day...
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