Spenser. Book II of the Faery Queene: Ed. by G.W. KitchinClarendon Press, 1903 - 300 pages |
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... Arthur and the Faery Queene , who appear dimly throughout . The image of the ... Prince , in quest of her through the world , full of a myste- rious love and ... Prince Arthur comes as a deliverer when the heroes are reduced to ...
... Arthur and the Faery Queene , who appear dimly throughout . The image of the ... Prince , in quest of her through the world , full of a myste- rious love and ... Prince Arthur comes as a deliverer when the heroes are reduced to ...
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... Arthur ; so in Canto VIII of the Second Book we meet the same Prince doing to death the various forms of angry passion and fiery temper , which had all but undone the weakened and prostrate Sir Guyon . Una corresponds , in a sort , to ...
... Arthur ; so in Canto VIII of the Second Book we meet the same Prince doing to death the various forms of angry passion and fiery temper , which had all but undone the weakened and prostrate Sir Guyon . Una corresponds , in a sort , to ...
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... Prince Arthur appeared to rescue him and to overthrow them finally . Then we have the Castle of the Soul , and the venomous assaults of its myriad foes , the twelve troops of temptation- five attacking the five senses , and seven ...
... Prince Arthur appeared to rescue him and to overthrow them finally . Then we have the Castle of the Soul , and the venomous assaults of its myriad foes , the twelve troops of temptation- five attacking the five senses , and seven ...
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... Prince Arthur of proud ornaments And borrow'd beautie spoyld . Her nathelesse Th ' enchanter finding fit for his intents Did thus revest , and deckt with due habiliments . 23 For all he did , was to deceive good knights , And draw them ...
... Prince Arthur of proud ornaments And borrow'd beautie spoyld . Her nathelesse Th ' enchanter finding fit for his intents Did thus revest , and deckt with due habiliments . 23 For all he did , was to deceive good knights , And draw them ...
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... Prince Arthur is , that wonnes in Faerie lond ; He hath a sword , that flames like burning brond . The same by my device I undertake Shall by to - morrow by thy side be fond . At which bold word that boaster gan to quake , And wondred ...
... Prince Arthur is , that wonnes in Faerie lond ; He hath a sword , that flames like burning brond . The same by my device I undertake Shall by to - morrow by thy side be fond . At which bold word that boaster gan to quake , And wondred ...
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Page 173 - Eftsoones they heard a most melodious sound, Of all that mote delight a daintie eare, Such as attonce might not on living ground, Save in this Paradise, be heard elsewhere : Right hard it was for wight which did it heare, To read what manner musicke that mote bee ; For all that pleasing is to living eare Was there consorted in one harmonee ; Birdes, voices, instruments, windes, waters, all agree ; The joyous birdes, shrouded in chearefull shade, Their notes unto the voice attempred sweet ; Th...
Page 206 - Centre, and with impious hands Rifled the bowels of their mother Earth For treasures better hid.
Page 94 - How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies like flying pursuivant, Against foul fiends to aid us militant! They for us fight, they watch and duly ward, And their bright squadrons round about us plant; And all for love, and nothing for reward: O why should Heavenly God to men have such regard ? LONDON: APPROVED SCHOOL BOOKS.
Page 208 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tride, What hell it is in suing long to bide : To loose good dayes, that might be better spent ; To wast long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow...
Page 173 - To th' instruments divine respondence meet: The silver sounding instruments did meet With the base murmure of the waters fall; The waters fall with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call: The gentle warbling wind low answered to all.
Page 222 - Typhoea et coniuratos caelum rescindere fratres. 280 ter sunt conati imponere Pelio Ossam scilicet, atque Ossae frondosum involvere Olympum...
Page 131 - But true it is that, when the oyle is spent, The light goes out, and weeke is throwne away : So, when he had resignd his regiment, His daughter gan despise his drouping day, And wearie wax of his continuall stay.
Page 94 - How oft do they their silver bowers leave, To come to succour us, that succour want? How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies, like flying pursuivant, Against foul fiends to aid us militant?
Page 172 - And over all of purest gold was spred A trayle of yvie in his native hew; For the rich metall was so coloured, That wight, who did not well avis'd it vew, Would surely deeme it to bee yvie trew...
Page 37 - So faire, and thousand thousand times more faire, She seemd, when she presented was to sight ; And was yclad, for heat of scorching aire, All in a silken Camus lilly whight, Purfled upon with many a folded plight, Which all above besprinckled was throughout With golden aygulets, that glistred bright Like twinckling starres ; and all the skirt about Was hemd with golden fringe.