The Faerie Queene: Disposed Into Twelve Bookes, Fashioning XII Morall VertuesD. Appleton & Company, 1859 - 820 pages |
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... Till that some end they finde , or in or out , That path they take , that beaten seemd most bare , And like to lead the labyrinth about ; Which when by tract they hunted had throughout , At length it brought them to a hollowe cave Amid ...
... Till that some end they finde , or in or out , That path they take , that beaten seemd most bare , And like to lead the labyrinth about ; Which when by tract they hunted had throughout , At length it brought them to a hollowe cave Amid ...
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... Till on a day ( that day is everie prime , When witches wont do penance for their crime , ) I chaunst to see her in her proper hew , Bathing her selfe in origane and thyme : A filthy foule old woman I did vew , That ever to have toucht ...
... Till on a day ( that day is everie prime , When witches wont do penance for their crime , ) I chaunst to see her in her proper hew , Bathing her selfe in origane and thyme : A filthy foule old woman I did vew , That ever to have toucht ...
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... Till that at length she found the trodden gras , In which the tract of peoples footing was , Under the steepe foot of a mountaine hore ; The same she followes , till at last she has A damzel spyde slow - footing her before , That on her ...
... Till that at length she found the trodden gras , In which the tract of peoples footing was , Under the steepe foot of a mountaine hore ; The same she followes , till at last she has A damzel spyde slow - footing her before , That on her ...
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... till I have told the message which I have . " She stayd ; and forth Duessa gan proceede ; " O thou , most auncient grandmother of all , More old than Iove , whom thou at first didst breede , Or that great house of gods cælestiall ...
... till I have told the message which I have . " She stayd ; and forth Duessa gan proceede ; " O thou , most auncient grandmother of all , More old than Iove , whom thou at first didst breede , Or that great house of gods cælestiall ...
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... Till , through celestiall doome thrown out of dore , Into an oxe he was transformd of yore . There also was king Croesus , that enhaunst His hart too high through his great richesse store ; And proud Antiochus , the which advaunst His ...
... Till , through celestiall doome thrown out of dore , Into an oxe he was transformd of yore . There also was king Croesus , that enhaunst His hart too high through his great richesse store ; And proud Antiochus , the which advaunst His ...
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Page xi - ... 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. The general! end therefore of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline...
Page 11 - 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...
Page 4 - Crosse he bore, The deare remembrance of his dying Lord, For whose sweete sake that glorious badge he wore, And dead, as living, ever him ador'd : Upon his shield the like was also scor'd, For soveraine hope which in his helpe he had.
Page 800 - The more they on it stare. But her sad eyes, still fastened on the ground, Are governed with goodly modesty, That suffers not one look to glance awry Which may let in a little thought unsound.
Page 12 - But his waste wordes retournd to him in vaine : So sound he slept, that nought mought him awake. Then rudely he him thrust, and pusht with paine, Whereat he gan to stretch ; but he againe Shooke him so hard, that forced him to speake.
Page 60 - And oft, for dread of hurt, would him advise The angry beastes not rashly to despise, Nor too much to provoke ; for he would learne The Lyon stoup to him in lowly wise, (A lesson hard) and make the Libbard sterne Leave roaring, when in rage he for revenge did earne.
Page 12 - The Sprite then gan more boldly him to wake, And threatned unto him the dreaded name Of Hecate : whereat he gan to quake, And, lifting up his lompish head, with blame Halfe angrie asked him, for what he came.
Page 268 - 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...
Page 5 - 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...
Page 183 - It was a chosen plott of fertile land, Emongst wide waves sett, like a litle nest, As if it had by Natures cunning hand Bene choycely picked out from all the rest, And laid forth for ensample of the best...