Spenser: Book I of the Faery QueeneClarendon Press, 1881 - 257 pages |
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Page xii
... Faith , Hope , and Charity , is what no one feels any difficulty in acknowledging , but what every one may easily read the poem without perceiving or remembering . In an allegory conducted with such propriety , and concealed or revealed ...
... Faith , Hope , and Charity , is what no one feels any difficulty in acknowledging , but what every one may easily read the poem without perceiving or remembering . In an allegory conducted with such propriety , and concealed or revealed ...
Page xxii
... Faith , the epic of the struggles and triumph of Truth . Oxford , 1867 . G. W. K. In the Second Edition the text had the great advantage of the oversight of the Rev. W. H. Bliss , M. A. I hope we have thus secured as close an agreement ...
... Faith , the epic of the struggles and triumph of Truth . Oxford , 1867 . G. W. K. In the Second Edition the text had the great advantage of the oversight of the Rev. W. H. Bliss , M. A. I hope we have thus secured as close an agreement ...
Page xxxi
... Faith etc. HER MOST HUMBLE SERVAUNT EDMVND SPENSER DOTH IN ALL HUMILITIE DEDICATE , PRESENT , AND CONSECRATE THESE HIS LABOVRS TO LIVE WITH THE ETERNITIE OF HER FAME . THE FIRST BOOKE OF THE FAERY QUEENE CONTAYNING The Legend.
... Faith etc. HER MOST HUMBLE SERVAUNT EDMVND SPENSER DOTH IN ALL HUMILITIE DEDICATE , PRESENT , AND CONSECRATE THESE HIS LABOVRS TO LIVE WITH THE ETERNITIE OF HER FAME . THE FIRST BOOKE OF THE FAERY QUEENE CONTAYNING The Legend.
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... faith unto your force , and be not faint : Strangle her , else she sure will strangle thee . That when he heard , in great perplexitie , His gall did grate for griefe and high disdaine , And knitting all his force got one hand free ...
... faith unto your force , and be not faint : Strangle her , else she sure will strangle thee . That when he heard , in great perplexitie , His gall did grate for griefe and high disdaine , And knitting all his force got one hand free ...
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... faith and chastity ; And still amidst her rayling , she did pray That plagues , and mischiefes , and long misery , Might fall on her , and follow all the way , And that in endlesse error she might ever stray . 24 But , when she saw her ...
... faith and chastity ; And still amidst her rayling , she did pray That plagues , and mischiefes , and long misery , Might fall on her , and follow all the way , And that in endlesse error she might ever stray . 24 But , when she saw her ...
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Archimago Ariosto armes armour Bartsch beast blood bloud Brachet brest CANTO Chanson de Roland Chaucer Cotgrave cruell dame deadly deare death Dict Diez doth dragon dread dreadfull elfin knight English eternall evil eyes Faery Queene faire false Duessa fast feare fell fierce fight gentle Gloss goodly grace griefe groning hand hart hath heaven heavenly hight house of Pride Icel king lady Latin light lord Lord Leicester meaning mighty Milton Nares never nigh nought paine Parv Paynim phrase poets powre pret pride Prince Arthur pron proud quoth rage Red Cross Knight seemd seems selfe sense Shepheards Calender shew shield shyne sight Skeat s.v. sonne sore Spenser spide Stratmann sweet thee thence thou tree Truth unto vaine verb viii wandring weary weene wondrous wont word wound wyde yron
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Page 51 - THE noble hart, that harbours vertuous thought, And is with child of glorious great intent, Can never rest, untill it forth have brought Th' eternall brood of glorie excellent.
Page 111 - For he that once hath missed the right way, The further he doth goe, the further he doth stray. ' Then doe no further goe, no further stray, But here ly downe, and to thy rest betake, Th...
Page 6 - Enforst to seeke some covert nigh at hand, A shadie grove not farr away they spide, That promist ayde the tempest to withstand ; Whose loftie trees, yclad with sommers pride, Did spred so broad, that heavens light did hide...
Page xxx - Queene to assygne her some one of her knights to take on him that exployt. Presently that clownish person, upstarting, desired that adventure : whereat the Queene much wondering, and the Lady much gainesaying, yet he earnestly importuned his desire.
Page xxviii - I have followed all the antique Poets historicall; first Homere, who in the Persons of Agamemnon and Ulysses hath ensampled a good governour and a vertuous man, the one in his Ilias, the other in his Odysseis: then Virgil, whose like intention was to doe in the person of Aeneas: after him Ariosto comprised them both in his Orlando : and lately Tasso dissevered them againe, and formed both parts in two persons, namely that part which they in Philosophy call Ethice, or vertues of a private man, coloured...
Page 168 - Abhorred Styx, the flood of deadly hate; Sad Acheron, of sorrow, black and deep; Cocytus, named of lamentation loud Heard on the rueful stream; fierce Phlegethon, Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage.
Page xxviii - I know, this methode will seeme displeasaunt, which had rather have good discipline delivered plainly in way of precepts, or sermoned at large, as they use, then thus clowdily enwrapped in allegoricall devises. 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.
Page xxx - ... seemed the goodliest man in al that company, and was well liked of the lady.
Page 118 - She was araied all in lilly white, And in her right hand bore a cup of gold, With wine and water fild up to the hight, In which a serpent did himselfe enfold, That horrour made to all that did behold ; But she no...
Page xxvii - The generall end therefore of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline...