The Faerie Queene: Disposed Into Twelve Bookes, Fashioning XII Morall VertuesD. Appleton & Company, 1859 - 820 pages |
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... turne againe ; For light she hated as the deadly bale , Av wont in desert darknes to remaine , Where plain none might her see , nor she see any plaine . Which when the valiant Elfe perceiv'd , he lept As lyon fierce upon the flying pray ...
... turne againe ; For light she hated as the deadly bale , Av wont in desert darknes to remaine , Where plain none might her see , nor she see any plaine . Which when the valiant Elfe perceiv'd , he lept As lyon fierce upon the flying pray ...
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... turne him backe : Her vomit full of bookes and papers was , With loathly frog and toades , which eyes did lacke , And creeping sought way in the weedy gras : Her filthie parbreake all the place defiled has . As when old father Nilus ...
... turne him backe : Her vomit full of bookes and papers was , With loathly frog and toades , which eyes did lacke , And creeping sought way in the weedy gras : Her filthie parbreake all the place defiled has . As when old father Nilus ...
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... turne the streame of destince , Or breake the chayne of strong necessitee Which fast is tyde to loves eternall seat ? The sonnes of Day he favoureth , I see , And by my ruines thinkes to make them great : To make one great by others ...
... turne the streame of destince , Or breake the chayne of strong necessitee Which fast is tyde to loves eternall seat ? The sonnes of Day he favoureth , I see , And by my ruines thinkes to make them great : To make one great by others ...
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... turne , And seeke her spouse , that from her still does fly And followes other game and venery : A satyre chaunst her wandring for to finde : And , kindling coles of lust in brutish eye , The loyall linkes of wedlocke did unbinde , And ...
... turne , And seeke her spouse , that from her still does fly And followes other game and venery : A satyre chaunst her wandring for to finde : And , kindling coles of lust in brutish eye , The loyall linkes of wedlocke did unbinde , And ...
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... the Redcrosse ; But he , them spying gan to turne asyde For feare , as seemd , or for some feigned losse : More greedy they of newes fast towards him do crosse . A silly man , in simple weedes forworne , And THE FAERIE QUEENE . 59.
... the Redcrosse ; But he , them spying gan to turne asyde For feare , as seemd , or for some feigned losse : More greedy they of newes fast towards him do crosse . A silly man , in simple weedes forworne , And THE FAERIE QUEENE . 59.
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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...