Book I of The Faery QueeneClarendon Press, 1883 - 257 pages |
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... sight the appearance of having been written in an obsolete dia- lect . He chose the language which was dying out ; and without any intention of writing in old English , looked always backwards , never forwards , in his choice of words ...
... sight the appearance of having been written in an obsolete dia- lect . He chose the language which was dying out ; and without any intention of writing in old English , looked always backwards , never forwards , in his choice of words ...
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... sight him much amazde , To see th ' unkindly impes , of heaven accurst , Devoure their dam ; on whom while so he gazd , Having all satisfide their bloudy thurst , Their bellies swolne he saw with fulnesse burst , And bowels gushing ...
... sight him much amazde , To see th ' unkindly impes , of heaven accurst , Devoure their dam ; on whom while so he gazd , Having all satisfide their bloudy thurst , Their bellies swolne he saw with fulnesse burst , And bowels gushing ...
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... sights and fancies weake , He mumbled soft , but would not all his silence breake . 43 The sprite then gan more boldly him to wake , And threatned unto him the dreaded name Of Hecate whereat he gan to quake , And , lifting up his ...
... sights and fancies weake , He mumbled soft , but would not all his silence breake . 43 The sprite then gan more boldly him to wake , And threatned unto him the dreaded name Of Hecate whereat he gan to quake , And , lifting up his ...
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... sight , That weaker sence it could have ravisht quight : The makers selfe , for all his wondrous witt , Was nigh beguiled with so goodly sight : Her all in white he clad , and over it Cast a black stole , most like to seeme for Una fit ...
... sight , That weaker sence it could have ravisht quight : The makers selfe , for all his wondrous witt , Was nigh beguiled with so goodly sight : Her all in white he clad , and over it Cast a black stole , most like to seeme for Una fit ...
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... sight ; O leave her soone , or let her soone be slaine . Her loathly visage viewing with disdaine , Eftsoones I thought her such , as she me told , And would have kild her ; but with faigned paine The false witch did my wrathfull hand ...
... sight ; O leave her soone , or let her soone be slaine . Her loathly visage viewing with disdaine , Eftsoones I thought her such , as she me told , And would have kild her ; but with faigned paine The false witch did my wrathfull hand ...
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Archimago Ariosto armes armour Bartsch beast blood bloud Brachet brest CANTO Chanson de Roland Chaucer Cotgrave cruell dame deadly deare death Dict Diez doth dragon dread dreadfull Ducange elfin knight English eternall evil eyes Faery Queene faire false Duessa fast feare fell fierce fight gentle Gloss goodly Goth grace griefe groning hand hart hath heaven heavenly hight house of Pride Icel king lady Latin light lord Lord Leicester meaning mighty Milton Nares never nigh nought paine Paynim phrase poets powre pret pride Prince Arthur pron proud quoth rage Red Cross Knight seemd seems selfe sense Shepheards Calender shew shield shyning sight Skeat s.v. sonne sore Spenser spide Stratmann sweet thee thence thou tree truth unto vaine verb viii wandring weary weene wondrous wont word wound wyde yron
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Page 6 - Yea but (quoth she) the perill of this place I better wot then you, though now too late To wish you backe returne with foule disgrace, Yet wisedome warnes, whilest foot is in the gate, To stay the steppe, ere forced to retrate. This is the wandring wood, this Errours den, A monster vile, whom God and man does hate : Therefore I read beware. Fly, fly (quoth then The fearefull Dwarfe) this is no place for living men.
Page 28 - The lyon would not leave her desolate, But with her went along, as a strong gard Of her chast person, and a faithfull mate Of her sad troubles and misfortunes hard : Still when she slept, he kept both watch and ward, And when she wakt, he waited diligent, With humble service to her will prepard : From her faire eyes he tooke commandement, And ever by her lookes conceived her intent.
Page 163 - In that Faery Queene I meane glory in my generall intention, but in my particular I conceive the most excellent and glorious person of our soveraine the Queene, and her kingdome in Faery Land.
Page 8 - That from their noyance he no where can rest; But with his clownish hands their tender wings He brusheth oft, and oft doth mar their murmurings.
Page 114 - Come, come away, fraile, feeble, fleshly wight, Ne let vaine words bewitch thy manly hart, Ne divelish thoughts dismay thy constant spright. In heavenly mercies hast thou not a part? Why shouldst thou then despeire, that chosen art?
Page xxviii - 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 8 - Her vomit full of bookes and papers was, With loathly frogs and toades, which eyes did lacke, And creeping sought way in the weedy gras: Her filthy parbreake all the place defiled has.
Page xxv - The generall end therefore of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline : Which for that I conceived shoulde be most plausible and pleasing, being coloured with an historicall fiction, the which the most part of men delight to read, rather for variety of matter then for profite of the ensample...
Page 168 - Abhorred Styx, the flood of deadly hate; Sad Acheron, of sorrow, black and deep; Cocytus, named of lamentation loud Heard on the rueful stream; fierce Phlegethon, Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage.
Page 3 - A GENTLE Knight was pricking on the plaine, Ycladd in mightie armes and silver shielde, Wherein old dints of deepe woundes did remaine, The cruell markes of many a bloody fielde ; Yet armes till that time did he never wield : His angry steede did chide his foming bitt, As much disdayning to the curbe to yield : Full jolly knight he seemd, and faire did sitt, As one for knightly giusts and fierce encounters fitt.