Book 1 of the Faery Queene, Volume 2Clarendon Press, 1874 - 251 pages |
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... natural sequel of a true and enlightened faith : and Duessa and Archimago are introduced at the opening of the " pageant , " as Spenser calls it , not merely to act as artistic links , binding Book with Book , but more especially to ...
... natural sequel of a true and enlightened faith : and Duessa and Archimago are introduced at the opening of the " pageant , " as Spenser calls it , not merely to act as artistic links , binding Book with Book , but more especially to ...
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... nature , while the former treated of the great religious and political questions which were agitating the world . For the same reason the allegorical character of the First Book is more strongly marked than that of the Second , though ...
... nature , while the former treated of the great religious and political questions which were agitating the world . For the same reason the allegorical character of the First Book is more strongly marked than that of the Second , though ...
Page xi
... natural rule in the case of two editions issued in an author's lifetime and under his eye , is to trust almost entirely to the later . But unfortunately this rule does not hold here . The edition of 1596 shows throughout signs of great ...
... natural rule in the case of two editions issued in an author's lifetime and under his eye , is to trust almost entirely to the later . But unfortunately this rule does not hold here . The edition of 1596 shows throughout signs of great ...
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... nature cloth'd with fleshly tyre , When raging Passion with fierce tyrannie Robs reason of her due regalitie , And makes it servaunt to her basest part ; The strong it weakens with infirmitie , And with bold furie armes the weakest hart ...
... nature cloth'd with fleshly tyre , When raging Passion with fierce tyrannie Robs reason of her due regalitie , And makes it servaunt to her basest part ; The strong it weakens with infirmitie , And with bold furie armes the weakest hart ...
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... Nature , from whose fruitfull pap Their welheads spring , and are with moisture deawd ; Which feeds each living plant with liquid sap , And fills with flowres fayre Floraes painted lap : But other some by gifte of later grace , Or by ...
... Nature , from whose fruitfull pap Their welheads spring , and are with moisture deawd ; Which feeds each living plant with liquid sap , And fills with flowres fayre Floraes painted lap : But other some by gifte of later grace , Or by ...
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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.