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Page i
... two ancient English poets , Chaucer and Spenser , who may , perhaps , be
reckoned as exceptions to this remark : There seem to have taken deep root , like
old British oaks , and to flourish in defiance of all the injuries of time and weather .
... two ancient English poets , Chaucer and Spenser , who may , perhaps , be
reckoned as exceptions to this remark : There seem to have taken deep root , like
old British oaks , and to flourish in defiance of all the injuries of time and weather .
Page viii
The story of Circe , in the Odyley , is an allegorical fable , of which there are
perhaps more copies and imitations than of any other whatever . Her offering a
cup , filled with intoxicating liquour , to her guests ; her mingling poison with their
food ...
The story of Circe , in the Odyley , is an allegorical fable , of which there are
perhaps more copies and imitations than of any other whatever . Her offering a
cup , filled with intoxicating liquour , to her guests ; her mingling poison with their
food ...
Page xi
In a poem which is built upon a Jewish or Chriftian plan , a mixture of true religion
and fable , good and bad angels in one place , and Jupiter and Juno in another ,
is perhaps juftly liable to censure , though great poets have not avoided it .
In a poem which is built upon a Jewish or Chriftian plan , a mixture of true religion
and fable , good and bad angels in one place , and Jupiter and Juno in another ,
is perhaps juftly liable to censure , though great poets have not avoided it .
Page xiii
... perhaps be more particularly applicable to this ; that “ they may possibly hinder
fome from being very bad poets , but are not capable of making any very good
one . ” Notwithstanding this , they are useful to help our observation in ...
... perhaps be more particularly applicable to this ; that “ they may possibly hinder
fome from being very bad poets , but are not capable of making any very good
one . ” Notwithstanding this , they are useful to help our observation in ...
Page xviii
I have thought it fufficient to touch upon such properties only as seem to be the
most essential , and perhaps many more might be reduced under one or other of
these general heads . I might here give examples of this noble and ancient kind
of ...
I have thought it fufficient to touch upon such properties only as seem to be the
most essential , and perhaps many more might be reduced under one or other of
these general heads . I might here give examples of this noble and ancient kind
of ...
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Page 19 - Yet wisedome warnes, whilest foot is in the gate, To stay the steppe, ere forced to retrate. This is the wandring wood, this Errours den, A monster vile, whom God and man does hate : Therefore I read beware. Fly, fly (quoth then The fearefull Dwarfe) this is no place for living men.
Page cxii - So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness : and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication : and upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
Page xxxv - 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 cxi - And there appeared another wonder in heaven ; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth...
Page 47 - Ah Sir, my liege lord, and my love, Shall I accuse the hidden cruell fate. And mightie causes wrought in heaven above, Or the blind god, that doth me thus amate. For hoped love to winne me certaine hate? Yet thus perforce he bids me do, or die. Die is my dew ; yet rew my wretched state, You, whom my hard avenging destinie Hath made judge of my life or death indifferently. LII. "Your owne deare sake forst me at first to leave My fathers kingdom...
Page 43 - Who all this while, with charmes and hidden artes, Had made a lady of that other spright, And fram'd of liquid ayre her tender partes, So...
Page 42 - Is tost with troubled sights and fancies weake, He mumbled soft, but would not all his silence breake.
Page 30 - At length they chaunst to meet upon the way An aged Sire, in long blacke weedes yclad, His feete all bare, his beard all hoarie gray, And by his belt his booke he hanging had...
Page 40 - And wakeful dogges before them farre doe lye, Watching to banish Care their enimy, Who oft is wont to trouble gentle Sleepe. By them the Sprite doth passe in quietly, And unto Morpheus comes, whom drowned deepe In drowsie fit he findes : of nothing he takes keepe.
Page cxxxv - Which default when as some endevoured to salve and recure, they patched up the holes with peces and rags of other languages, borrowing here of the french, there of the Italian, every where of the Latine, not weighing how il those tongues accorde with themselves, but much worse with ours : So now they have made our English tongue, a gallimaufray or hodge-podge of al other speches.
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| Title | The Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 2 Volume 2 of The Works of Edmund Spenser in Eight Volumes, Henry John Todd The Works of Edmund Spenser, Henry John Todd |
| Author | Edmund Spenser |
| Editor | Henry John Todd |
| Publisher | F. C. & J. Rivington, 1805 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 4 Jan 2007 |
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