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... lord's discomfiture and cap- tivity by Orgoglio , as one of the finest in all the Poem . In the eighth Canto , the old man Ignaro , with his bunch of rusty keys , whom Arthur and Una find in the castle , after the destruction of ...
... lord's discomfiture and cap- tivity by Orgoglio , as one of the finest in all the Poem . In the eighth Canto , the old man Ignaro , with his bunch of rusty keys , whom Arthur and Una find in the castle , after the destruction of ...
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... Lord Grey of Wilton . Marinel , who has his name from the sea , was in- tended , in some particulars , to represent the Lord High Admiral , Lord Howard . Amoret and Florimel represent different aspects in the character , and incidents ...
... Lord Grey of Wilton . Marinel , who has his name from the sea , was in- tended , in some particulars , to represent the Lord High Admiral , Lord Howard . Amoret and Florimel represent different aspects in the character , and incidents ...
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... Lord Grey of Wilton , who went over to Ireland as Lord - Lieutenant in July 1580 , and was accompanied , as secre- tary , by our poet . He goes to Irena ( Ireland ) , to deliver it from Grantorto , or the genius of Popery — a spirit ...
... Lord Grey of Wilton , who went over to Ireland as Lord - Lieutenant in July 1580 , and was accompanied , as secre- tary , by our poet . He goes to Irena ( Ireland ) , to deliver it from Grantorto , or the genius of Popery — a spirit ...
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... Lord Grey . And the Blatant Beast who op- poses Sir Arthgal in his attempts to subdue Irena , is Scandal , or as some more mildly render it , Public Opinion , and whose charges are precisely the same as those brought against Grey for ...
... Lord Grey . And the Blatant Beast who op- poses Sir Arthgal in his attempts to subdue Irena , is Scandal , or as some more mildly render it , Public Opinion , and whose charges are precisely the same as those brought against Grey for ...
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... Lord Savage , who was , according to Spenser himself , in his " View of Ireland , " " a poor gentle man of very mean condition ; " and the episode of an infant saved from a bear , and delivered to the wife of Sir Bruin , to be brought ...
... Lord Savage , who was , according to Spenser himself , in his " View of Ireland , " " a poor gentle man of very mean condition ; " and the episode of an infant saved from a bear , and delivered to the wife of Sir Bruin , to be brought ...
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Page 286 - How oft do they their silver bowers leave, To come to succour us that succour want ! How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting...
Page 20 - Crosse he bore, The deare remembrance of his dying Lord, For whose sweete sake that glorious badge he wore, And dead, as living, ever him ador'd : Upon his shield the like was also scor'd, For soveraine hope which in his helpe he had.
Page 3 - The generall end, therefore, of all the booke, is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline...
Page 237 - Where soone he slumbred fearing not be harmd : The whiles with a love lay she thus him sweetly charmd.
Page 65 - And in his lap an heap of com he told ; For of his wicked pelf his god he made, And unto hell himself for money sold : Accursed usury was all his trade ; And right and wrong alike in equal balance weigh'd.
Page 263 - If so be the Faerye Queene be fairer in your eie than the Nine Muses, and Hobgoblin runne away with the Garland from Apollo: Marke what I saye, and yet I will not say that I thought, but there an End for this once, and fare you well, till God or some good Aungell putte you in a better minde (Ibid., pp.
Page 83 - And all the way their merry pipes they sound, That all the woods with double eccho ring, And with their horned feet do weare the ground, Leaping like wanton kids in pleasant spring. So towards old Sylvanus they her bring...
Page 286 - O ! th" exceeding grace Of highest God that loves his creatures so, And all his works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed Angels he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe...
Page 51 - Ah ! see the virgin rose, how sweetly shee Doth first peepe foorth with bashfull modestee, That fairer seemes the lesse ye see her may ! Lo ! see soone after how more bold and free Her bared bosome she doth broad display ! Lo ! see soone after how she fades and falls away...
Page 51 - Of all that might delight a dainty ear, Such as at once might not on living ground, Save in this paradise, be heard elsewhere : Right hard it was for wight which did it hear, To...