Spenser's Britomart: From Books III, IV, and V of the Faery QueeneGinn, 1896 - 265 pages |
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Page iii
... land , well - nigh lost to view . And yet no story in the Faery Queene is so romantic and none has such a strong human inter- est as that which tells of the " lady knight . " As we read of her adventures we are reminded of Rosalind in ...
... land , well - nigh lost to view . And yet no story in the Faery Queene is so romantic and none has such a strong human inter- est as that which tells of the " lady knight . " As we read of her adventures we are reminded of Rosalind in ...
Page v
... land ; Columbus discovered the New World in 1492 ; in 1517 Luther attacked the doctrine of indulgences ; in 1534 Henry VIII declared himself head of the Eng- lish church . However , not until the reign of Elizabeth , with its long years ...
... land ; Columbus discovered the New World in 1492 ; in 1517 Luther attacked the doctrine of indulgences ; in 1534 Henry VIII declared himself head of the Eng- lish church . However , not until the reign of Elizabeth , with its long years ...
Page xi
... lands where the rivers run gold and the rocks are full of diamonds . At another time we see the future poet of fairy - land cheering on a street fight or following with the crowd that escorts an unfortunate victim to the stocks or to ...
... lands where the rivers run gold and the rocks are full of diamonds . At another time we see the future poet of fairy - land cheering on a street fight or following with the crowd that escorts an unfortunate victim to the stocks or to ...
Page xii
... land . If the imagination of the future poet was fed by the sights and sounds of the city , it must have been nour- ished by books as well . Stories from every land and every age found their way to the printing - presses of London ...
... land . If the imagination of the future poet was fed by the sights and sounds of the city , it must have been nour- ished by books as well . Stories from every land and every age found their way to the printing - presses of London ...
Page xiii
... land meet with sor- cerers and dragons , with Saracens and Amazons ; while the vices and virtues personified live on terms of inti- macy with the thinly disguised characters of the poet's own time . Little is known of Spenser's life at ...
... land meet with sor- cerers and dragons , with Saracens and Amazons ; while the vices and virtues personified live on terms of inti- macy with the thinly disguised characters of the poet's own time . Little is known of Spenser's life at ...
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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.