The Works of Edmund SpenserRoutledge, 1872 - 562 pages |
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... while to have intermitted the uttering of my writings , leaste , by over - much cloying their noble eares , I should ... whiles the yron is hote , it is good striking , and minds of nobles varie as their estates . Verùm ne quid durius ...
... while to have intermitted the uttering of my writings , leaste , by over - much cloying their noble eares , I should ... whiles the yron is hote , it is good striking , and minds of nobles varie as their estates . Verùm ne quid durius ...
Page xv
... whiles continue your old exercise of versifying in English ; whych glorie I had now thought shoulde have bene onely ours heere at London , and the Court . x Truste me , your verses I like passingly well , and envye your hidden paines in ...
... whiles continue your old exercise of versifying in English ; whych glorie I had now thought shoulde have bene onely ours heere at London , and the Court . x Truste me , your verses I like passingly well , and envye your hidden paines in ...
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... Whiles sad Night over him her mantle black doth spred . XL . Whose double gates he findeth locked fast ; The one ... while , with charmes and hidden artez , Had made a Lady of that other Spright , And fram'd of liquid ayre her tender ...
... Whiles sad Night over him her mantle black doth spred . XL . Whose double gates he findeth locked fast ; The one ... while , with charmes and hidden artez , Had made a Lady of that other Spright , And fram'd of liquid ayre her tender ...
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... Whiles you in carelesse sleepe are drowned quight . " Her doutbfull words made that redoubted Knight Suspect her truth ; yet since no ' untruth he knew Her fawning love with foule disdainefull spight He would not shend ; but said ...
... Whiles you in carelesse sleepe are drowned quight . " Her doutbfull words made that redoubted Knight Suspect her truth ; yet since no ' untruth he knew Her fawning love with foule disdainefull spight He would not shend ; but said ...
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... whiles wicked wights Have knit themselves in Venus shameful chaine : Come , see where your false Lady doth her honor staine . " V. All in a maze he suddenly up start With sword in hand , and with the old man went ; Who soone him brought ...
... whiles wicked wights Have knit themselves in Venus shameful chaine : Come , see where your false Lady doth her honor staine . " V. All in a maze he suddenly up start With sword in hand , and with the old man went ; Who soone him brought ...
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Page 126 - 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 98 - 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 427 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tride, What hell it is in suing long to bide : To loose good dayes, that might be better spent ; To wast long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow...
Page 12 - Then choosing out few words most horrible, (Let none them read) thereof did verses frame; With which, and other spelles like terrible, He bad awake blacke Plutoes griesly Dame; And cursed heven; and spake reprochful shame Of highest God, the Lord of life and light: A bold bad man, that dar'd to call by name Great Gorgon, prince of darknes and dead night; At which Cocytus quakes, and Styx is put to flight.
Page 49 - Or from the field most cowardly doth fly ? Ne let the man ascribe it to his skill, That thorough grace hath gained victory. If any strength we have, it is to ill, But all the good is Gods, both power and eke will.
Page 466 - As each had bene a Bryde ; And each one had a little wicker basket, Made of fine twigs, entrayled curiously, In which they gathered flowers to fill their flasket, And with fine Fingers crept full feateously The tender stalkes on hye.
Page 11 - 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 ; Sober he seemde, and very sagely sad ; And to the ground...
Page 18 - 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...
Page 64 - They all perfumde with frankincense divine, And precious odours fetcht from far away, That all the house did sweat with great aray: And all the while sweete Musicke did apply Her curious skill the warbling notes to play, To drive away the dull Melancholy; The whiles one sung a song of love and jollity. 39 During the which there was an heavenly noise Heard sound through all the pallace pleasantly, Like as it had bene many an Angels voice Singing before th...
Page 2 - For this cause is Xenophon preferred before Plato, for that the one, in the exquisite depth of his judgement...