Complete Works of Edmund SpenserMacmillan, 1897 - 736 pages |
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... never did any do it more to the height , or with greater art or elegance , if the highest of praises attributed to so heroic a princess can justly be termed flattery . ' * When Spenser's works were reprinted - the first three books of ...
... never did any do it more to the height , or with greater art or elegance , if the highest of praises attributed to so heroic a princess can justly be termed flattery . ' * When Spenser's works were reprinted - the first three books of ...
Page xxxv
... never , perhaps , more weeping , poetical and other , over any death than over that of Sidney — in his Astrophel , the poem above mentioned . This poem is scarcely worthy of the sad occasion - the flower of knight- hood cut down ere its ...
... never , perhaps , more weeping , poetical and other , over any death than over that of Sidney — in his Astrophel , the poem above mentioned . This poem is scarcely worthy of the sad occasion - the flower of knight- hood cut down ere its ...
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... never man so like amonges us . † And the doleful confession this orphaned rhymer makes for himself , might have been well made by all the men of his age in England : - My dere mayster , God his soule quite . era . And fader Chaucer ...
... never man so like amonges us . † And the doleful confession this orphaned rhymer makes for himself , might have been well made by all the men of his age in England : - My dere mayster , God his soule quite . era . And fader Chaucer ...
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... never wield . His angry steede did chide his foming bitt , Full jolly knight he seemd , and faire did sitt , As much disdayning to the curbe to yield : As one for knightly giusts and fierce encounters fitt . Eftsoones dismounted from ...
... never wield . His angry steede did chide his foming bitt , Full jolly knight he seemd , and faire did sitt , As much disdayning to the curbe to yield : As one for knightly giusts and fierce encounters fitt . Eftsoones dismounted from ...
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... never Prince so faithfull and so faire , Was never Prince so meeke and debonaire ; But ere my hoped day of spousall shone , My dearest Lord fell from high honors staire Into the hands of hys accursed fone , And cruelly was slaine ; that ...
... never Prince so faithfull and so faire , Was never Prince so meeke and debonaire ; But ere my hoped day of spousall shone , My dearest Lord fell from high honors staire Into the hands of hys accursed fone , And cruelly was slaine ; that ...
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Page 589 - Almighties view : Of her ye Virgins learne obedience, When so ye come into those holy places, To humble your proud faces : Bring her up to th...
Page 589 - 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.
Page 589 - Open the temple gates unto my love, Open them wide that she may enter in, And all the...
Page 12 - A lovely ladie rode him faire beside, Upon a lowly asse more white then snow ; Yet she much whiter, but the same did hide Under a vele, that wimpled was full low...
Page 12 - Behind her farre away a Dwarfe did lag, That lasie seemd, in being ever last, Or wearied with bearing of her bag Of needments at his backe. Thus as they past, The day with cloudes was suddeine overcast, And angry Jove an hideous storme of raine Did poure into his Lemans...
Page 589 - Why stand ye still ye virgins in amaze, Upon her so to gaze, Whiles ye forget your former lay to sing, To which the woods did answer, and your eccho ring...
Page 12 - The eugh,1 obedient to the benders will ; The birch for shaftes ; the sallow for the mill ; The mirrhe sweete-bleeding in the bitter wound ; The warlike beech ; the ash for nothing ill ; The fruitful! olive ; and the platane round ; The carver holme ; the maple seeldom inward sound.
Page 12 - At last resolving forward still to fare, Till that some end they finde, or in or out, That path they take, that beaten seemd most bare...
Page 606 - And each one had a little wicker basket, Made of fine twigs, entrayled curiously, In which they gathered flowers to fill their flasket, And with fine Fingers cropt full feateously The tender stalkes on hye.
Page 15 - The knight was well content; So with that godly father to his home they went. xxxiv. A litle lowly Hermitage it was, Downe in a dale, hard by a forests side, Far from resort of people that did pas In...