Complete Works of Edmund SpenserMacmillan, 1897 - 736 pages |
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Page 589 - modesty, That suffers not one looke to glaunce awry, Which may let in a little thought unsownd. Why blush ye, love, to give to me your hand, The pledge of all our band ! Sing, ye sweet Angels, Alleluya sing, That all the woods may answere, and your eccho ring. Now al is done : bring home
Page 119 - Pursuivant. Against fowle feendes to ayd us militant ! They for us light, they watch and dewly ward, And their bright Squadrons round about us plant ; And all for love, and nothing for reward. О ! why should hevenly God to men have such regard
Page 12 - did seeme too solemne sad; Yet nothing did he dread, but ever was ydrad. Upon a great adventure he was bond. That greatest Gloriaría to him gave, (That greatest Glorious Queene of Faery lond) To winne him worshippe, and her grace to have, Which of all earthly thinges he most did crave : And ever as he
Page 12 - the Ash for nothing ill ; The fruitful! Olive; and the Platane round ; The carver Holme ; the Maple seeldom inward sound. x Led with delight, they thus beguile the way, Until! the blustring storme is overblowne ; When, weening to returne whence they did They cannot finde that path, which first was
Page 79 - advize, That of the world least part to us is red; And daily how through hardy enterprize Many great Regions are discovered, Which to late age were never mentioned. Who ever heard of th' Indian Peru? Or who in venturous vessel! measured The Amazon huge river, now found
Page 589 - Like crimsin dyde in grayne : That even th' Angels, which continually About the sacred Altare doe remaine, Forget their service and about her fly, Ofte peeping in her face, that seems more fayre, The more they on it stare. But her sad eyes, still fastened on the ground,
Page xxvii - scheme entertained at this time for forcing the English tongue to conform to the metrical rules of the classical languages. Already in a certain circle rime was discredited as being, to use Milton's words nearly a century afterwards, 'no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age to set
Page 12 - to fare, Till that some end they finde, or in or out, That path they take that beaten seemd most And like to lead the labyrinth about; [bare, Which when by tract they hunted had throughout, At length it brought them to a hollowe cave Amid the thickest woods. The Champion stout
Page 12 - And on his brest a bloodie Crosse he bore, The deare remembrance of his dying Lord, For whose sweete sake that glorious badge he And dead, as living, ever him ador'd : [wore, Upon his shield the like was also
Page 12 - with sommers pride. \ Did spred so broad, that heavens light did hide, Not perceable with power of any starr : And all within were pathes and alleies wide. With footing worne, and leading inward fair. Faire harbour that them seems, so in