The Works of Edmund Spenser: With a Selection of Notes from Various Commentators; and a Glossarial Index: to which is Prefixed, Some Account of the Life of Spenser, by Henry John ToddE. Moxon, 1845 - 562 pages |
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... wise itselfe will forth display . E. S. TO ALL THE GRATIOUS AND BEAUTIFULL LADIES IN THE COURT . THE Chian Peincter , when he was requir'd To pourtraict Venus in her perfect hew ; To make his worke more absolute , desir'd Of all the ...
... wise itselfe will forth display . E. S. TO ALL THE GRATIOUS AND BEAUTIFULL LADIES IN THE COURT . THE Chian Peincter , when he was requir'd To pourtraict Venus in her perfect hew ; To make his worke more absolute , desir'd Of all the ...
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... wise , He stayde his hand ; and gan himselfe advise To prove his sense , and tempt her faigned truth . Wringing her hands , in wemens pitteous wise , Tho can she weepe , to stirre up gentle ruth Both for her noble blood , and for her ...
... wise , He stayde his hand ; and gan himselfe advise To prove his sense , and tempt her faigned truth . Wringing her hands , in wemens pitteous wise , Tho can she weepe , to stirre up gentle ruth Both for her noble blood , and for her ...
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... wise ; Ne other grace vouchsafed them to showe Of princesse worthy ; scarse them bad arise . Her Lordes and Ladies all this while devise Themselves to setten forth to straungers sight : Some frounce their curled heare in courtly guise ...
... wise ; Ne other grace vouchsafed them to showe Of princesse worthy ; scarse them bad arise . Her Lordes and Ladies all this while devise Themselves to setten forth to straungers sight : Some frounce their curled heare in courtly guise ...
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... wise southsayer , seeing so sad sight , Th ' amazed vulgar telles of warres and mortal fight . IX . So th ' one for wrong , the other strives for right ; And each to deadly shame would drive his foe : The cruell steele so greedily doth ...
... wise southsayer , seeing so sad sight , Th ' amazed vulgar telles of warres and mortal fight . IX . So th ' one for wrong , the other strives for right ; And each to deadly shame would drive his foe : The cruell steele so greedily doth ...
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... wise beheast . I. As when a ship , that flyes fayre under sayle , An hidden rocke escaped hath unwares , That lay in waite her wrack for to bewaile ; The mariner yet halfe amazed stares At perill past , and yet in doubt ne dares To ioy ...
... wise beheast . I. As when a ship , that flyes fayre under sayle , An hidden rocke escaped hath unwares , That lay in waite her wrack for to bewaile ; The mariner yet halfe amazed stares At perill past , and yet in doubt ne dares To ioy ...
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Page 8 - 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 5 - Much can they praise the trees so straight and hy, The sayling Pine ; the Cedar proud and tall ; The vine-propp Elme ; the Poplar never dry ; The builder Oake, sole king of forrests all ; The Aspine good for staves ; the Cypresse funerall ; "The Laurell, meed of mightie Conquerours And Poets sage ; the Firre that weepeth still ; The Willow worne of forlorne Paramours ; The Eugh, obedient to the benders will ; The Birch for shaftes ; the Sallow for the mill...
Page 7 - Sir knight, ye have advised bin, (Quoth then that aged man) the way to win Is wisely to advise: now day is spent; Therefore with me ye may take up your in For this same night.
Page 118 - 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, voices, instruments, windes, waters, all agree ; The joyous birdes, shrouded in chearefull shade, Their notes unto the voice attempred sweet ; Th...
Page 6 - Full of great lumps of flesh and gobbets raw, Which stunck so vildly, that it forst him slacke His grasping hold, and from her turne him backe: Her vomit full of bookes and papers was, With loathly frogs and toades, which eyes did lacke, And creeping sought way in the weedy gras : Her filthie parbreake all the place defiled has.
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, Did spred so broad, that heavens light did hide, Not perceable with power of any starr : And all within were pathes and alleies wide, With footing worne, and leading inward farr. Faire harbour that them seems, so in they entred ar.
Page 92 - How oft do they their silver bowers leave To come to succour us, that succour want ! How oft do they with golden...
Page 117 - And over all, of purest gold was spred A trayle of yvie in his native hew: For the rich metall was so coloured, That wight, who did not well avis'd it vew, Would surely deeme it to bee yvie trew: Low his lascivious armes adown did creepe, That themselves dipping in the silver dew, Their fleecy flowres they tenderly did steepe, Which drops of christall seemd for wantones to weep.
Page 14 - One day, nigh wearie of the yrkesome way, From her unhastie beast she did alight ; And on the grasse her dainty limbs did lay In secrete shadow, far from all mens sight : From her fayre head her fillet she undight, And layd her stole aside. Her angels face, As the great eye of heaven, shyned bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place : Did never mortall eye behold such heavenly grace.
Page 349 - November; he full grosse and fat As fed with lard, and that right well might seeme; For he had been a fatting hogs of late, That yet his browes with sweat did reek and steem, And yet the season was full sharp and breem : In planting eeke he took no small delight.