Spenser: SelectionsClarendon Press, 1956 - 208 pages |
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Page 69
... noughts . Even such is all their vaunted vanitie , Nought else but smoke , that fumeth soone away ; Such is their glorie that in simple eie Seeme greatest , when their garments are most gay . So they themselves for praise of fooles do ...
... noughts . Even such is all their vaunted vanitie , Nought else but smoke , that fumeth soone away ; Such is their glorie that in simple eie Seeme greatest , when their garments are most gay . So they themselves for praise of fooles do ...
Page 105
... nought mote perce , ne might his corse be harmd With dint of sword , nor push of pointed speare ; Which as an Eagle , seeing pray appeare , His aery plumes doth rouze , full rudely dight , So shaked he , that horrour was to heare , For ...
... nought mote perce , ne might his corse be harmd With dint of sword , nor push of pointed speare ; Which as an Eagle , seeing pray appeare , His aery plumes doth rouze , full rudely dight , So shaked he , that horrour was to heare , For ...
Page 135
... Nought therewith daunted was her courage proud , But rather stird to cruell enmity , Expecting ever , when some foe she might descry . With that , an hideous storme of winde arose , With dreadfull thunder and lightning atwixt , And an ...
... Nought therewith daunted was her courage proud , But rather stird to cruell enmity , Expecting ever , when some foe she might descry . With that , an hideous storme of winde arose , With dreadfull thunder and lightning atwixt , And an ...
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