Book 1 of the Faery QueeneClarendon Press, 1875 - 251 pages |
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... rest ) it is the perfection of all the rest , and containeth in it them all , therefore in the whole course I mention the deeds of Arthure appliable to that vertue , which I write of in that booke . But of the twelve other vertues I ...
... rest ) it is the perfection of all the rest , and containeth in it them all , therefore in the whole course I mention the deeds of Arthure appliable to that vertue , which I write of in that booke . But of the twelve other vertues I ...
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... stinges , That from their noyance he no where can rest , But with his clownish hands their tender wings He brusheth oft , and oft doth mar their murmurings . 24 Thus ill bestedd , and fearefull more of shame 8 THE FAERY QUEENE .
... stinges , That from their noyance he no where can rest , But with his clownish hands their tender wings He brusheth oft , and oft doth mar their murmurings . 24 Thus ill bestedd , and fearefull more of shame 8 THE FAERY QUEENE .
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... rest will also want of might ? The sunne that measures heaven all day long , At night doth baite his steedes the ocean waves emong . 33 Then with the sunne take , Sir , your timely rest , And with new day new worke at once begin ...
... rest will also want of might ? The sunne that measures heaven all day long , At night doth baite his steedes the ocean waves emong . 33 Then with the sunne take , Sir , your timely rest , And with new day new worke at once begin ...
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... rest , But every hil and dale , each wood and plaine , Did search , sore grieved in her gentle brest , He so ... rests not so , but other meanes doth make , How he may worke unto her further smarts : For her he hated as the hissing snake ...
... rest , But every hil and dale , each wood and plaine , Did search , sore grieved in her gentle brest , He so ... rests not so , but other meanes doth make , How he may worke unto her further smarts : For her he hated as the hissing snake ...
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... rest , And glauncing down his shield from blame him fairly blest . 19 Who , thereat wondrous wroth , the sleeping spark Of native vertue gan eftsoones revive ; And at his haughtie helmet making mark , So hugely stroke , that it the ...
... rest , And glauncing down his shield from blame him fairly blest . 19 Who , thereat wondrous wroth , the sleeping spark Of native vertue gan eftsoones revive ; And at his haughtie helmet making mark , So hugely stroke , that it the ...
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Archimago Ariosto armes armour banns of marriage beast blood bloud brest CANTO Chaucer cruell dame dead deadly deare death doth dragon dread dreadfull Du Cange elfin knight English eternall eyes Faery Queene faire false Duessa fast feare feeble fell fierce fight gentle Gloss goodly Goth grace griefe groning hand hart hast hath heaven heavenly hight house of Pride Icel king lady Latin light lord Lord Leicester mighty never nigh nought paine Paynim phrase Piers Ploughman poets powre pray pret pride Prince Arthur pron proud quoth rage Red Cross Knight says seemd seems selfe sense Shepheards Calender shew shield shyning sight sonne sore sorrow Spenser spide stanza subst Tale thee thence thou tree truth unto vaine verb viii wandring weary weene whence wondrous wont word wound wyde yron
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Page 168 - Abhorred Styx, the flood of deadly hate; Sad Acheron, of sorrow, black and deep; Cocytus, named of lamentation loud Heard on the rueful stream; fierce Phlegethon, Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage.
Page 15 - By this the Northerne wagoner had set His sevenfold teme behind the stedfast starre, That was in Ocean waves yet never wet, But firme is fixt, and sendeth light from farre To all, that in the wide deepe wandring arre...
Page xxvi - I have followed all the antique Poets historicall; first Homere, who in the Persons of Agamemnon and Ulysses hath ensampled a good governour and a vertuous man, the one in his Ilias, the other in his Odysseis: then Virgil, whose like intention was to doe in the person of Aeneas: after him Ariosto comprised them both in his Orlando : and lately Tasso dissevered them...
Page 118 - She was araied all in lilly white, And in her right hand bore a cup of gold, With wine and water fild up to the hight, In which a serpent did himselfe enfold, That horrour made to all that did behold ; But she no...
Page 13 - And, more to lulle him in his slumber soft, A trickling streame from high rock tumbling downe, And ever-drizling raine upon the loft, Mixt with a murmuring winde, much like the sowne Of swarming bees, did cast him in a swowne. No other noyse, nor peoples troublous cryes, As still are wont t'annoy the walled towne, Might there be heard : but carelesse Quiet lyes, Wrapt in eternall silence farre from enimyes.
Page 114 - Come, come away, fraile, feeble, fleshly wight, Ne let vaine words bewitch thy manly hart, Ne divelish thoughts dismay thy constant spright. In heavenly mercies hast thou not a part? Why shouldst thou then despeire, that chosen art?
Page 6 - And as she lay upon the durtie ground, Her huge long taile her den all overspred, Yet was in knots and many boughtes upwound, Pointed with mortall sting.
Page xxviii - Queene to assygne her some one of her knights to take on him that exployt. Presently that clownish person, upstarting, desired that adventure : whereat the Queene much wondering, and the Lady much gainesaying, yet he earnestly importuned his desire.
Page 3 - A GENTLE Knight was pricking on the plaine, Ycladd in mightie armes and silver shielde, Wherein old dints of deepe woundes did remaine, The cruell markes of many a bloody fielde ; Yet armes till that time did he never wield : His angry steede did chide his foming bitt, As much disdayning to the curbe to yield : Full jolly knight he seemd, and faire did sitt, As one for knightly giusts and fierce encounters fitt.
Page 82 - Upon the top of all his loftie crest, A bunch of haires discolourd diversly, With sprincled pearle, and gold full richly drest, Did shake, and seemd to daunce for jollity ; Like to an almond tree ymounted hye On top of greene Selinis all alone, With blossoms brave bedecked daintily; Whose tender locks do tremble every one At every little breath, that under heaven is blowne.