Spenser's Britomart: From Books III, IV, and V of the Faery QueeneGinn, 1896 - 265 pages |
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... Death of the most Noble and Valorous Knight , Sir Philip Sidney ; Pro- thalamion , or a Spousal Verse ; Epithalamion , a poem celebrating the poet's own marriage ; four Hymns in honor of Love , Beauty , Heavenly Love , and Heavenly ...
... Death of the most Noble and Valorous Knight , Sir Philip Sidney ; Pro- thalamion , or a Spousal Verse ; Epithalamion , a poem celebrating the poet's own marriage ; four Hymns in honor of Love , Beauty , Heavenly Love , and Heavenly ...
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... death sat on the point of that enchanted spear : 9 And hasting towards him gan fair persuade Not to provoke misfortune , nor to ween His spear's default to mend with cruel blade ; For by his mighty science he had seen The secret virtue ...
... death sat on the point of that enchanted spear : 9 And hasting towards him gan fair persuade Not to provoke misfortune , nor to ween His spear's default to mend with cruel blade ; For by his mighty science he had seen The secret virtue ...
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... death and doleful dreryhed.2 16 So as they gazèd after her awhile , Lo ! where a grisly3 foster1 forth did rush , His tireling jade he fiercely forth did push Through thick and thin , both over bank and bush , In hope her to attain by ...
... death and doleful dreryhed.2 16 So as they gazèd after her awhile , Lo ! where a grisly3 foster1 forth did rush , His tireling jade he fiercely forth did push Through thick and thin , both over bank and bush , In hope her to attain by ...
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... tired out . 5 Ne , nor . 6 Apace , quickly . 7 List not , cared not to . 8 Surcease , cause to cease . 9 Preasse , crowd . 10 Gyre , circle . 11 Tho , then . 12 Liefe , love . That death me liefer1 were then such despite , 2 BRITOMART . 13.
... tired out . 5 Ne , nor . 6 Apace , quickly . 7 List not , cared not to . 8 Surcease , cause to cease . 9 Preasse , crowd . 10 Gyre , circle . 11 Tho , then . 12 Liefe , love . That death me liefer1 were then such despite , 2 BRITOMART . 13.
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... death me liefer1 were then such despite , 2 So unto wrong to yield my wrested right : For I love one , the truest one on ground , Ne list me3 change ; she th ' Errant Damsel 4 hight 5 ; For whose dear sake full many a bitter stound 6 I ...
... death me liefer1 were then such despite , 2 So unto wrong to yield my wrested right : For I love one , the truest one on ground , Ne list me3 change ; she th ' Errant Damsel 4 hight 5 ; For whose dear sake full many a bitter stound 6 I ...
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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.