The Faerie Queene: Disposed Into Twelve Bookes Fashioning XII Morall VertuesG. Routledge, 1855 - 820 pages |
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... lady whom Spenser everywhere celebrates , and whose cruelty he deplores , under the name of Rosalind . Spenser's love was , so far , profitable both to himself and to posterity ; and when we read this delightful specimen of early ...
... lady whom Spenser everywhere celebrates , and whose cruelty he deplores , under the name of Rosalind . Spenser's love was , so far , profitable both to himself and to posterity ; and when we read this delightful specimen of early ...
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... Lady Igrayne , to have seene in a dream or vision the Faerie Queene , with whose excellent beauty ravished , he awaking resolved to seeke her out , and so being by Merlin armed , and by Timon throughly instructed , he went to seeke her ...
... Lady Igrayne , to have seene in a dream or vision the Faerie Queene , with whose excellent beauty ravished , he awaking resolved to seeke her out , and so being by Merlin armed , and by Timon throughly instructed , he went to seeke her ...
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... lady- knight , in whom I picture Chastity . But , because the be- ginning of the whole worke seemeth abrupte and as ... lady much gainesaying , yet he earnestly importuned his desire . In the end the lady told him , that unlesse that ...
... lady- knight , in whom I picture Chastity . But , because the be- ginning of the whole worke seemeth abrupte and as ... lady much gainesaying , yet he earnestly importuned his desire . In the end the lady told him , that unlesse that ...
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... lady , called Amoretta , whom he kept in most grievous tor- ment , because she would not yield him the pleasure of her body . Whereupon Sir Scudamour , the lover of that lady , presently tooke on him that adventure . But being unable to ...
... lady , called Amoretta , whom he kept in most grievous tor- ment , because she would not yield him the pleasure of her body . Whereupon Sir Scudamour , the lover of that lady , presently tooke on him that adventure . But being unable to ...
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... lady , sad to see his sore constraint , Cride out , " Now , now , Sir Knight , shew what Add faith unto your force , and be not faint ; Strangle her , els she sure will strangle thee . " That when he heard , in great perplexitie , His ...
... lady , sad to see his sore constraint , Cride out , " Now , now , Sir Knight , shew what Add faith unto your force , and be not faint ; Strangle her , els she sure will strangle thee . " That when he heard , in great perplexitie , His ...
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againe appeare armes backe beare beast behold better blood bold brought cause cruell dame dead deadly deare death deepe delight doth downe dread earth eyes face FAERIE faire fall false farre fayre feare fell fierce fight force fortune gentle goodly grace griefe ground hand hard hart hast hath head heard heare heavens herselfe hight himselfe huge knight lady land late leave light living looke lord meanes mighty mind mote never nigh noble nought paine passe plaine powre prince queene rage rest sayd secret seeke seeme shame shew shield side sight sonne soone sore stay strong sure sweet tell thee thence thereof things thou thought Till turne unto vaine weary whenas whiles wight wise woods wound wretched
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Page 794 - Then gin I thinke on that which Nature sayd, Of that same time when no more Change shall be, But stedfast rest of all things, firmely stayd Upon the pillours of Eternity...
Page 8 - 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 10 - Led with delight, they thus beguile the way, Untill the blustring storme is overblowne; When, weening to returne whence they did stray, They cannot finde that path, which first was showne But wander too and fro in waies unknowne, Furthest from end then, when they neerest weene, That makes them doubt their wits be not their owne : So many pathes, so many turnings seene, That which of them to take, in diverse doubt they been.
Page 15 - 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 Tethys his wet bed Doth ever wash, and Cynthia still doth steepe In silver deaw his ever-drouping hed, Whiles sad Night over him her mantle black doth spred.
Page 795 - And when ye list your owne mishaps to mourne, Which death, or love, or fortunes wreck did rayse, Your string could soone to sadder tenor turne, And teach the woods and waters to lament 10 Your dolefull dreriment...
Page 4 - Poets, I labour to pourtraict in Arthure, before he was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected in the twelve private morall vertues, as Aristotle hath devised...
Page 537 - So oft as I with state of present time The image of the antique world compare, When as mans age was in his freshest prime, And the first blossome of faire vertue bare ; Such oddes I finde twixt those, and these which are, As that, through long continuance of his course, Me seemes the world is runne quite out of square From the first point of his appointed sourse ; And being once amisse growes daily wourse and wourse...
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 looke to glaunce awry, Which may let in a little thought unsownd.
Page 789 - With eares of come, and full her hand was found: That was the righteous Virgin, which of old Liv'd here on earth, and plenty made abound; But after Wrong was lov'd, and Justice solde, She left th' unrighteous world, and was to heaven extold.
Page 266 - Out of this fountaine, sweet and faire to see, The which into an ample laver fell, And shortly grew to so great quantitie, That like a litle lake it seemd to bee; Whose depth exceeded not three cubits...