Complete Works of Edmund SpenserMacmillan, 1893 - 736 pages |
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Page xix
... delight , and with his characteristic melody , the life he led in his younger days : --- Whilome in youth when flowrd my joyfull spring , Like swallow swift I wandred here and there ; For heate of heedlesse lust me did so sting , That I ...
... delight , and with his characteristic melody , the life he led in his younger days : --- Whilome in youth when flowrd my joyfull spring , Like swallow swift I wandred here and there ; For heate of heedlesse lust me did so sting , That I ...
Page xxxi
... delight in its activity ; Even so this happy creature of herself Is all - sufficient ; Solitude to her Is blithe society , who fills the air With gladness and involuntary songs . † See Colin Clout's Come Home Again , vv . 312-319 . See ...
... delight in its activity ; Even so this happy creature of herself Is all - sufficient ; Solitude to her Is blithe society , who fills the air With gladness and involuntary songs . † See Colin Clout's Come Home Again , vv . 312-319 . See ...
Page xxxix
... delight , Whose pleasing sound yshrilled far about , Or thither led by chaunce , I know not right- found him out , and Provoked me to plaie some pleasant fit . He sang , he tells us , a song of Mulla old father Mole's daughter , and of ...
... delight , Whose pleasing sound yshrilled far about , Or thither led by chaunce , I know not right- found him out , and Provoked me to plaie some pleasant fit . He sang , he tells us , a song of Mulla old father Mole's daughter , and of ...
Page liii
... delight , I was moved by one of you two most excellent ladies [ the ladies Margaret , Countess of Cumberland , Mary , Countess of Warwick ] to call in the same ; but unable so to do , by reason that many copies thereof were formerly ...
... delight , I was moved by one of you two most excellent ladies [ the ladies Margaret , Countess of Cumberland , Mary , Countess of Warwick ] to call in the same ; but unable so to do , by reason that many copies thereof were formerly ...
Page lix
... delight to read , rather for variety of matter then for profite of the ensample , I chose the historye of King Arthure , as most fitte for the excellency of his person , being made famous by many mens former workes , and also furthest ...
... delight to read , rather for variety of matter then for profite of the ensample , I chose the historye of King Arthure , as most fitte for the excellency of his person , being made famous by many mens former workes , and also furthest ...
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