Book I of The Faery QueeneClarendon Press, 1869 - 251 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 35
Page xii
... cause for their insensibility than the tediousness or insipidity of allegorical poetry . Every canto of this book teems with the choicest beauties of imagination ; he came to it in the freshness of his genius , which shines throughout ...
... cause for their insensibility than the tediousness or insipidity of allegorical poetry . Every canto of this book teems with the choicest beauties of imagination ; he came to it in the freshness of his genius , which shines throughout ...
Page xxvi
... cause is Xenophon preferred before Plato , for that the one , in the exquisite depth of his judgement , formed a Commune - wealth , such as it should be ; but the other , in the person of Cyrus and the Persians , fashioned a government ...
... cause is Xenophon preferred before Plato , for that the one , in the exquisite depth of his judgement , formed a Commune - wealth , such as it should be ; but the other , in the person of Cyrus and the Persians , fashioned a government ...
Page 1
... cause to be Fierce warres and faithfull loves shall moralize my song . oral , to moral characles to . give α lis 2 Helpe then , O holy virgin chiefe of nine , Thy weaker novice to performe thy will ; too - week Prince Arthur writing ...
... cause to be Fierce warres and faithfull loves shall moralize my song . oral , to moral characles to . give α lis 2 Helpe then , O holy virgin chiefe of nine , Thy weaker novice to performe thy will ; too - week Prince Arthur writing ...
Page 19
... cause was none of dread her to dismay . 21 Shee turning backe with ruefull countenaunce Cride , Mercy mercy Sir vouchsafe to show harmlese , pmiple J giveth much On silly dame , subject to hard mischaunce , And to your mighty will . Her ...
... cause was none of dread her to dismay . 21 Shee turning backe with ruefull countenaunce Cride , Mercy mercy Sir vouchsafe to show harmlese , pmiple J giveth much On silly dame , subject to hard mischaunce , And to your mighty will . Her ...
Page 33
... cause of mine excuse ; that mote ye please ught- Well to accept , and evermore embrace My faithfull service , that by land and seas Have vowd you to defend : now then your plaint appease . 30 His lovely words her seemd due recompence it ...
... cause of mine excuse ; that mote ye please ught- Well to accept , and evermore embrace My faithfull service , that by land and seas Have vowd you to defend : now then your plaint appease . 30 His lovely words her seemd due recompence it ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Archimago Ariosto armes armour beast blood bloud brest CANTO Chaucer cloth College cruell dame dead deadly deare death doth dragon dread dreadfull Du Cange Edition elfin knight English eternall eyes Faery Queene faire fall fast fcap 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 mighty never nigh nought Oriel College Oxford paine Paynim phrase poets powre pret pride Prince Arthur proud quoth rage Red Cross Red Cross Knight says seemd seems selfe sense Shepheards Calender shew shield shyning sight sonne sore sorrow Spenser spide stanza subst Tale thee thence thou tree truth unto vaine verb viii wandring weary weene whence wondrous wont word wound wyde yron
Popular passages
Page 10 - At length they chaunst to meet upon the way An aged Sire, in long blacke weedes yclad, His feete all bare, his beard all hoarie gray, And by his belt his booke he hanging had ; Sober he seemde, and very sagely sad, And to the ground his eyes were lowly bent, Simple in shew, and voide of malice bad, And all the way he prayed, as he went, And often knockt his brest, as one that did repent.
Page 69 - And oft, for dread of hurt, would him advise The angry beastes not rashly to despise, Nor too much to provoke ; for he would learne The Lyon stoup to him in lowly wise, (A lesson hard) and make the Libbard sterne Leave roaring, when in rage he for revenge did earne.
Page 4 - 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.
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 - 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. Right faithfull true he was in deede and word, But of his cheere did seeme too solemne sad; Yet nothing did he dread, but ever was ydrad.
Page 152 - The blazing brightnesse of her beauties beame, And glorious light of her sunshyny face, To tell, were as to strive against the streame: My ragged rimes are all too rude and bace Her heavenly lineaments for to enchace. Ne wonder; for her own deare loved knight, All were she dayly with himselfe in place, Did wonder much at her celestial! sight: Oft had he seene her faire, but never so faire dight.
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 filthie parbreake all the place defiled has.
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 11 - A little lowly Hermitage it was, Downe in a dale, hard by a forests side, Far from resort of people, that did pas In...
Page 3 - To prove his puissance in battell brave Upon his foe, and his new force to learne; Upon his foe, a Dragon horrible and stearne.