The Works of Spenser, Volume 2J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1750 |
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Page 96 - 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 ? 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 •." This agrees with what is recorded of St.
Page 176 - So passeth in the passing of a day Of mortal life the leaf, the bud, the flower: Ne more doth flourish after first decay, That erst was sought to deck both bed and bower Of many a lady and many a paramour! Gather therefore the rose whilst yet is prime.
Page 150 - That seemd to tremble evermore and quake: All in a canvas thin he was bedight, And girded with a belt of twisted brake: Upon his head he wore an helmet light, Made of a dead mans skull, that seemd a ghastly sight: XXIII.
Page 175 - Eftsoones they heard a most melodious sound, Of all that mote delight a dainty ear, Such as at once might not on living ground, Save in this paradise, be heard elsewhere : Right hard it was for wight which did it hear To read what manner music that mote be; For all that pleasing is to living ear Was there consorted in one harmony; Birds, voices, instruments, winds, waters, all agree.
Page 92 - Their fruit were golden apples glistring bright, That goodly was their glory to behold ; On earth like never grew, ne living wight Like ever saw, but they from hence were sold ; For those, which Hercules with conquest bold Got from great Atlas daughters, hence began, And planted there did bring forth fruit of gold , And those, with which th" Eubœan young man wan Swift Atalanta, when through craft he her out ran.
Page 58 - T'auoide the rash assault and wrathfull stowre Of his fiers foe, him to a tree applies, And when him running in full course he spies, He slips aside; the whiles that furious beast His precious home, sought of his enimies, Strikes in the stocke, ne thence can be releast, But to the mighty victour yields a bounteous feast.
Page 42 - In woods, in waves, in wars she wonts to dwell, And will be found with peril and with pain ; Ne can the man that moulds in idle cell Unto her happy mansion attain. Before her gate high God did sweat ordain, And wakeful watches ever to abide : But easy is the way and passage plain To Pleasure's palace ; it may soon be spied, And day and night her doors to all stand open wide.
Page 86 - Embossed with massy gold of glorious gift, And with rich metal loaded every rift. That heavy ruin they did seem to threat : And over them Arachne high did lift Her cunning web, and spread her subtle net, Enwrapped in foul smoke, and clouds more black than jet.
Page 87 - Commaunded was, who thereby did attend, And warily awaited day and night, From other covetous feends it to defend, Who it to rob and ransacke did intend.
Page 169 - Not that celestiall powre, to whom the care Of life, and generation of all That lives, perteines in charge particulare, Who wondrous things concerning our welfare, And...