Spenser's Britomart: From Books III, IV, and V of the Faery QueeneGinn, 1896 - 265 pages |
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... better side of court life , he was not blind to the baser elements that went to make up that brilliant society . The following lines are from his poem , Colin Clout's Come Home Again : For , sooth to say , it is no sort xiv INTRODUCTION .
... better side of court life , he was not blind to the baser elements that went to make up that brilliant society . The following lines are from his poem , Colin Clout's Come Home Again : For , sooth to say , it is no sort xiv INTRODUCTION .
Page xv
... better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to - day , to be put back to - morrow ; To feed on hope , to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Princes ' grace , yet want her Peers ' ; To have thy asking , yet ...
... better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to - day , to be put back to - morrow ; To feed on hope , to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Princes ' grace , yet want her Peers ' ; To have thy asking , yet ...
Page xvii
... better calculated to develop his peculiar genius . A painter of contemporary man- ners like Pope would have suffered intellectual starva- tion amid these hills and bogs ; but the man who was to create the fairy - land of Gloriana and ...
... better calculated to develop his peculiar genius . A painter of contemporary man- ners like Pope would have suffered intellectual starva- tion amid these hills and bogs ; but the man who was to create the fairy - land of Gloriana and ...
Page xx
... better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas , ” and Wordsworth in his Prelude says : And that gentle Bard , Chosen by the muses for their page of State , Sweet Spenser , moving through his clouded heaven With the moon's beauty and the moon's ...
... better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas , ” and Wordsworth in his Prelude says : And that gentle Bard , Chosen by the muses for their page of State , Sweet Spenser , moving through his clouded heaven With the moon's beauty and the moon's ...
Page xxi
... better than any other poet of his nation he knows how to communicate to his readers the joy that comes from the contemplation of ideal beauty . His poetry , it is true , does not cause that ecstatic thrill which is akin to pain ; rather ...
... better than any other poet of his nation he knows how to communicate to his readers the joy that comes from the contemplation of ideal beauty . His poetry , it is true , does not cause that ecstatic thrill which is akin to pain ; rather ...
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adventure Amongst Amoret arms Artegall assay bade beauty Belphoebe Blandamour blood bold breast Britomart Briton brought Certes Chrysaor cruel dame dear despite dight dismayed doth dreadful Eftsoones Elfin knight ensample faery knight Faery Queene fair Britomart fair ladies fairest false fear fell fiercely fight Florimell foul gentle Glaucè goodly Grantorto grief ground habergeon hand hard hath heart heaven Hight lady late light living Lord Lord Grey maid Maidenhead Merlin mighty mind mote nigh noble nought pain Paridell peril poet pow'r prince quoth raught Redcross Redcross knight rest revenge Satyrane Scudamour seemed shame shield sight Sith soon sore sorrow spear Spenser sprite steed Stound stout strange stroke Talus tell thee thereof therewith thou thought Triamond unto warlike ween weet whenas whilom wight wist wonder wont wound wrath wreak wretched yield
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Page ix - Did both find, helpers to their hearts' desire, And stuff at hand, plastic as they could wish, — Were called upon to exercise their skill, Not in Utopia, — subterranean fields, — Or some secreted island, Heaven knows where! But in the very world, which is the world Of all of us, — the place where, in the end, We find our happiness, or not at all...
Page xxii - The generall end therefore of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline...
Page xv - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide : To lose good days, that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Princes
Page xxvii - 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...
Page xxx - 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 94 - And in the thickest covert of that shade, There was a pleasant arbour, not by art, But of the trees...
Page xxix - The beginning therefore of my historie, if it were to be told by an Historiographer, should be the twelfth booke, which is the last...
Page xxix - For the methode of a poet historical is not such as of an historiographer. For an historiographer discourseth of affayres orderly as they were donne, accounting as well the times as the actions; but a poet thrusteth into the middest, even where it most concerneth him, and there recoursing to the thinges forepaste, and divining of thinges to come, maketh a pleasing analysis of all.