Book 1 of the Faery Queene, Volume 2Clarendon Press, 1874 - 251 pages |
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... mean between the extremes of excess and defect . Yet even here the poet deviates from the philosopher . His ' defect , ' the frowning Elissa , is not merely too little of the quality of which ' excess , ' the gay Perissa , is too much ...
... mean between the extremes of excess and defect . Yet even here the poet deviates from the philosopher . His ' defect , ' the frowning Elissa , is not merely too little of the quality of which ' excess , ' the gay Perissa , is too much ...
Page 187
... mean , halfway between the morose Puritanism of Elissa and the loose behaviour of Perissa . 5 , 7. forward paire , . . . froward paire ; -Excess is forward , or too bold , Defect froward , or wayward and dissatisfied . Upton says that ...
... mean , halfway between the morose Puritanism of Elissa and the loose behaviour of Perissa . 5 , 7. forward paire , . . . froward paire ; -Excess is forward , or too bold , Defect froward , or wayward and dissatisfied . Upton says that ...
Page 188
... mean , not the 1st of January , but March 25 ; spring - time , not mid - winter , according to the reckoning of that ... means to say that the night was far spent . It is an astrological , rather than a classical allusion . One of the ...
... mean , not the 1st of January , but March 25 ; spring - time , not mid - winter , according to the reckoning of that ... means to say that the night was far spent . It is an astrological , rather than a classical allusion . One of the ...
Page 190
... mean simply any recompense or gift ; thence it reached the modern usage of ' fee ' or payment of certain charges at law , & c . In the text it is used solely of personal service of a liegeman to his liege lord ; to hold of him ' meaning ...
... mean simply any recompense or gift ; thence it reached the modern usage of ' fee ' or payment of certain charges at law , & c . In the text it is used solely of personal service of a liegeman to his liege lord ; to hold of him ' meaning ...
Page 194
... means to say that Fury is like a dam which blocks back the stream of moderation and reason and so causes an overflow ; till it is removed the stream will not return to its orderly course . 14. The mastery of the strong man over the ...
... means to say that Fury is like a dam which blocks back the stream of moderation and reason and so causes an overflow ; till it is removed the stream will not return to its orderly course . 14. The mastery of the strong man over the ...
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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.