Spenser's Britomart: From Books III, IV, and V of the Faery QueeneGinn, 1896 - 265 pages |
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Page vi
... light of the New Learning seemed in danger of being quenched ; but , with the coming of Elizabeth , herself a lover of Greek and Latin literature , the classics regained their supremacy , and the grammar schools , recently established ...
... light of the New Learning seemed in danger of being quenched ; but , with the coming of Elizabeth , herself a lover of Greek and Latin literature , the classics regained their supremacy , and the grammar schools , recently established ...
Page xii
... light of the linkboy's torch making well - known objects strangely unfamiliar . But , above all , the shows ! processions , pageants , masks , mummeries , morality plays ; every kind of spectacle that could delight the eyes of man might ...
... light of the linkboy's torch making well - known objects strangely unfamiliar . But , above all , the shows ! processions , pageants , masks , mummeries , morality plays ; every kind of spectacle that could delight the eyes of man might ...
Page xxvi
... light to the reader , for the better under- standing is hereunto annexed . TO THE RIGHT NOBLE AND VALOROUS SIR WALTER RALEIGH , KNIGHT , Lo : Wardein of the Stanneries , 2 and her majesties lieutenaunt of the countie of Cornewayll . SIR ...
... light to the reader , for the better under- standing is hereunto annexed . TO THE RIGHT NOBLE AND VALOROUS SIR WALTER RALEIGH , KNIGHT , Lo : Wardein of the Stanneries , 2 and her majesties lieutenaunt of the countie of Cornewayll . SIR ...
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... light ? That with his melting sweetness ravishèd , And with the wonder of her beamës bright , My senses lullèd are in slumber of delight . 5 But let that same delicious poet lend A little leave unto a rustic muse 1 Ne , nor . 2 Daint ...
... light ? That with his melting sweetness ravishèd , And with the wonder of her beamës bright , My senses lullèd are in slumber of delight . 5 But let that same delicious poet lend A little leave unto a rustic muse 1 Ne , nor . 2 Daint ...
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... light , And we your liegemen faith unto you plight . " So underneath her feet their swords they mard , 3 And , after , her besought , well as they might , To enter in and reap the due reward : She granted ; and then in they all together ...
... light , And we your liegemen faith unto you plight . " So underneath her feet their swords they mard , 3 And , after , her besought , well as they might , To enter in and reap the due reward : She granted ; and then in they all together ...
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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.