Book 1 of the Faery Queene, Volume 2Clarendon Press, 1874 - 251 pages |
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... fight against purity of life as well as against truth of doctrine , and the magician and the witch go on " deceiving and deceived " to the end . It follows that Spenser , having risen to this high conception b of the purpose of these ...
... fight against purity of life as well as against truth of doctrine , and the magician and the witch go on " deceiving and deceived " to the end . It follows that Spenser , having risen to this high conception b of the purpose of these ...
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... fighting and grim pictures , some of them revolting rather than terrible . The Dragon , laid low over acres of land , horrible even in death , fills the mind with painful images : on the other hand , Acrasia , fair and frail , carried ...
... fighting and grim pictures , some of them revolting rather than terrible . The Dragon , laid low over acres of land , horrible even in death , fills the mind with painful images : on the other hand , Acrasia , fair and frail , carried ...
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... fight , He seekes , of all his drifte the aymed end : Thereto his subtile engins he does bend , His practick wit and his fayre filed tong , With thousand other sleights : for well he kend His credit now in doubtfull ballaunce hong ; For ...
... fight , He seekes , of all his drifte the aymed end : Thereto his subtile engins he does bend , His practick wit and his fayre filed tong , With thousand other sleights : for well he kend His credit now in doubtfull ballaunce hong ; For ...
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... fight . 19 These two gay knights , vowd to so diverse loves , Each other does envie with deadly hate , And dayly warre against his foeman moves , In hope to win more favour with his mate , And th ' others pleasing service to abate , To ...
... fight . 19 These two gay knights , vowd to so diverse loves , Each other does envie with deadly hate , And dayly warre against his foeman moves , In hope to win more favour with his mate , And th ' others pleasing service to abate , To ...
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... fight With deadly rancour he enraunged fond , His sunbroad shield about his wrest he bond , And shyning blade unsheathd , with which he ran Unto that stead , their strife to understond ; And , at his first arrivall , them began With ...
... fight With deadly rancour he enraunged fond , His sunbroad shield about his wrest he bond , And shyning blade unsheathd , with which he ran Unto that stead , their strife to understond ; And , at his first arrivall , them began With ...
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Acrasia Archimago Ariosto armes Atin battell bloud Book Braggadocchio brest brond brought called Cange CANTO Chaucer Comus cruell Cymochles dayes deadly deare death despight dight doth dreadfull Du Cange earst Eftsoones Engl Faery Queene faire farre fayre fierce fight flowres fowle Gloss goodly Goth grace grone hand Hardyng hart hath hight Hist Holinshed honour Icel idle king knight lady Late Lat Levins Rhyming Dict lord Low Lat Maximian mightie Milton moral mote nought palmer Picts powre pret Prince Arthur Pyrochles Robert of Gloucester says seemd seems selfe sense shame shew shield Sir Guyon Sith sonne soone sore Spenser spide spright squire stanza steed straunge streight subst sweet sword Tale thee thence thou unto vaine verb viii villein Virg warre weene weet whence wight word wrath wretched Zeus
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Page 206 - Ransacked the Centre, and with impious hands Rifled the bowels of their mother Earth For treasures better hid.
Page 94 - 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 ? LONDON: APPROVED SCHOOL BOOKS.
Page 94 - Of men than beasts ; but oh ! the exceeding grace Of highest God ! that loves his creatures so, And all his works with mercy doth embrace. That blessed angels he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe.
Page 173 - To th' instruments divine respondence meet; The silver sounding instruments did meet With the base murmure of the waters fall; The waters fall with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call; The gentle warbling wind low answered to all.
Page 94 - 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?
Page 113 - Their murmuring small trompets sounden wide, Whiles in the aire their clustring army flies, That as a cloud doth seeme to dim the skies; Ne man nor beast may rest or take repast For their sharpe wounds, and noyous injuries, Till the fierce northerne wind with blustring blast Doth blow them quite away, and in the ocean cast.
Page 66 - In this wide Inland sea, that hight by name The Idle lake, my wandring ship I row, That knowes her port, and thither sayles by ayme, Ne care, ne feare I how the wind do blow, Or whether swift I wend, or whether slow : Both slow and swift alike do serve my tourne ; Ne swelling Neptune ne lowd thundring Jove Can chaunge my cheare, or make me ever mourne : My little boat can safely passe this perilous bourne.
Page 173 - 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 1 - But let that man with better sence advize, That of the world least part to us is red; And daily how through hardy enterprize Many great Regions are discovered, Which to late age were never mentioned. Who ever heard of th
Page 84 - All bard with double bends, that none could weene Them to efforce by violence or wrong : On every side they placed were along ; But all the grownd with sculs was scattered, And dead mens bones, which round about were flong ; Whose lives, it seemed, whilome there were shed, And their vile carcases now left unburied.