The Faerie Queene: Disposed Into Twelve Bookes, Fashioning XII Morall VertuesD. Appleton & Company, 1859 - 820 pages |
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... ' eternall establishment of your happines , I humbly take leave . Yours most humbly affectionate , ED . SPENSER . 23 Ianuary , 1589 OF THE FAERIE QUEENE . CONTAYNING The Legend of the zii SPENSER TO SIR WALTER RALEIGH .
... ' eternall establishment of your happines , I humbly take leave . Yours most humbly affectionate , ED . SPENSER . 23 Ianuary , 1589 OF THE FAERIE QUEENE . CONTAYNING The Legend of the zii SPENSER TO SIR WALTER RALEIGH .
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... leave My fathers kingdom " -there she stopt with teares ; Her swollen hart her speech seemd to bereave , And then againe begun ; " My weaker yeares , Captiv'd to fortune and frayle worldly feares , Fly to your fayth for succour and sure ...
... leave My fathers kingdom " -there she stopt with teares ; Her swollen hart her speech seemd to bereave , And then againe begun ; " My weaker yeares , Captiv'd to fortune and frayle worldly feares , Fly to your fayth for succour and sure ...
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... leave her soone , or let her soone be slaine ! " Her loathly visage viewing with disdaine , Eftsoones I thought her such as she me told , And would have kild her ; but with faigned paine v origi The false witch did my wrathfull hand ...
... leave her soone , or let her soone be slaine ! " Her loathly visage viewing with disdaine , Eftsoones I thought her such as she me told , And would have kild her ; but with faigned paine v origi The false witch did my wrathfull hand ...
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... leave her desolate , But with her went along , as a strong gard Of her chast person , and a faythfull mate Of her sad troubles and misfortunes hard ; Still , when she slept , he kept both watch and ward ; And , when she wakt , he wayted ...
... leave her desolate , But with her went along , as a strong gard Of her chast person , and a faythfull mate Of her sad troubles and misfortunes hard ; Still , when she slept , he kept both watch and ward ; And , when she wakt , he wayted ...
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... leave that have me loved stil , And chose in Faery court , of meere goodwil , Where noblest knights were to be found on earth . The earth shall sooner leave her kindly skil To bring forth fruit , and make eternal derth , Then I leve you ...
... leave that have me loved stil , And chose in Faery court , of meere goodwil , Where noblest knights were to be found on earth . The earth shall sooner leave her kindly skil To bring forth fruit , and make eternal derth , Then I leve you ...
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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...