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Page 107
At last , by subtil Neights The him betraid Unto his foe , a Giant huge and tall ,
Who hin , disarmed , diffolute , dismaid , Unwares surprised , and with mighty
mall The monster merciless him made to fall , Whose fall did never foe before
behold ...
At last , by subtil Neights The him betraid Unto his foe , a Giant huge and tall ,
Who hin , disarmed , diffolute , dismaid , Unwares surprised , and with mighty
mall The monster merciless him made to fall , Whose fall did never foe before
behold ...
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And in his fall , his shield that cover'd was , Did loose his veil by chance , and
open flew : The light whereof , that heavens light did pass , Such blazing
brightness through the ayër threw , That eye mote not the same endure to view .
And in his fall , his shield that cover'd was , Did loose his veil by chance , and
open flew : The light whereof , that heavens light did pass , Such blazing
brightness through the ayër threw , That eye mote not the same endure to view .
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Or as a castle reared high and round , By subtile engines and malicious Night Is
undermined from the lowest ground ; And her foundation forct , and feebled
quight , At last down falls , and with her heaped height Her hafty ruine does more
...
Or as a castle reared high and round , By subtile engines and malicious Night Is
undermined from the lowest ground ; And her foundation forct , and feebled
quight , At last down falls , and with her heaped height Her hafty ruine does more
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Page 342
... personage of ftature tall , And femblance pleasing , more than natural , That
travellers to him feem'd to entise ; His looser garment to the ground did fall , And
few about his heels in wanton wise , Not fit for speedy pace , or manly exercise .
... personage of ftature tall , And femblance pleasing , more than natural , That
travellers to him feem'd to entise ; His looser garment to the ground did fall , And
few about his heels in wanton wise , Not fit for speedy pace , or manly exercise .
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For she was full of amiable grace , And manly terrour mixed there - withall , That
as the one stir'd up affections base , So th'other did mens raih desires appall ,
And hold them back , that would in errour fall ; As he that hath espy'd a vermeil ...
For she was full of amiable grace , And manly terrour mixed there - withall , That
as the one stir'd up affections base , So th'other did mens raih desires appall ,
And hold them back , that would in errour fall ; As he that hath espy'd a vermeil ...
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edmond spenser is one of the great poet of mideval age.and we get the evidence in the fairy queen.that how he had procured himself
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Page 348 - To th' instruments divine respondence meet ; The silver sounding instruments did meet With the base murmure of the waters fall ; The waters fall with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call ; The gentle warbling wind low answered to all.
Page 269 - 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 skies, like flying pursuivant, Against foul fiends to aid us militant ! They for us fight, they watch and duly ward, And their bright squadrons round about us plant, And all for love, and nothing for reward : Oh, why should heavenly God to men have such regard ?1 This agrees with what is recorded of St.
Page 60 - When such an one had guiding of the way, That knew not whether right he went, or else astray.
Page 107 - Ay me, how many perils doe enfold The righteous man, to make him daily fall? Were not, that heavenly grace doth him uphold, And stedfast truth acquite him out of all.
Page 62 - And unto hell him selfe for money sold : Accursed usury was all his trade ; And right and wrong ylike in equall ballaunce waide.
Page xxvi - Eftsoones they heard a most melodious sound, Of all that mote 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 read what manner music that mote be; For all that pleasing is to living ear Was there consorted in one harmony; Birds, voices, instruments, winds, waters, all agree.
Page 62 - Yet childe ne kinsman living had he none To leave them to ; but thorough daily care To get, and nightly feare to lose his owne, He led a wretched life, unto himselfe unknowne. Most wretched wight, whom nothing might suffise ; Whose greedy lust did lacke in greatest store ; Whose need had end, but no end covetise...
Page 215 - In woods, in waves, in wars, she wonts to dwell, And will be found with peril and with pain, Ne can the man that moulds in idle cell Unto her happy mansion attain ; Before her gate high God did Sweat ordain, And wakeful watches ever to abide ; But easy is the way and passage plain To Pleasure's palace ; it may soon be spied, ' ' And day and night her doors to all stand open wide.
Page 440 - Yet no'te she find redresse for such despight. For all that lives, is subject to that law : All things decay in time, and to their end do draw.
Page xiii - That which seems the most liable to Exception in this Work, is the Model of it, and the Choice the Author has made of so romantick a Story.
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| Title | The Fairy Queen, Volume 1 The Fairy Queen, Edmund Spenser Volume 1 of The Fairy Queen. ...: With a Glossary, Explaining the Old and Obscure Words. : in Two Volumes, Edmund Spenser |
| Author | Edmund Spenser |
| Publisher | J. and R. Tonson, 1758 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 16 Jul 2007 |
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