Spenser's Britomart: From Books III, IV, and V of the Faery Queene |
What people are saying - Write a review
We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
adventure Amoret appear arms Artegall bear beauty better blood Britomart brought called cause close course cruel dear death deep desire despite dight dismayed doth doubt dreadful Eftsoones English eyes face Faery Queene fair fall false fear fell fiercely fight force former foul gentle goodly grief ground hand hard hath head heart Italy knight lady land late light living looked Lord maid means mind mote needs never noble nought pain pass peril person plain poet pow'r prince Queene rest Scudamour seek seemed shame shield side sight sith sleep soon sore sorrow spear Spenser stay strange stroke tell thee things thou thought true turned unto warlike whilom wonder wound wrath yield
Popular passages
Page ix - Did both find, helpers to their hearts' desire, And stuff at hand, plastic as they could wish, — Were called upon to exercise their skill, Not in Utopia, — subterranean fields, — Or some secreted island, Heaven knows where! But in the very world, which is the world Of all of us, — the place where, in the end, We find our happiness, or not at all...
Page xxii - The generall end therefore of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline...
Page xxx - Queene to assygne her some one of her knights to take on him that exployt. Presently that clownish person upstarting, desired that adventure ; whereat the Queene much wondering, and the Lady much gainesaying, yet he earnestly importuned his desire.
Page xv - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide : To lose good days, that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Princes
Page xxvii - I have followed all the antique Poets historicall, first Homere, who in the Persons of Agamemnon and Ulysses hath ensampled a good governour and a vertuous man, the one in his Ilias, the other in his Odysseis: then Virgil, whose like intention was to doe in the person of...
Page xv - To have thy asking, yet wait many years; To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares ; To eat thy heart through comfortless despairs; To fawn, to crouch, to wait, to ride, to run, To spend, to give, to want, to be undone. Unhappy wight, born to disastrous end, That doth his life in so long 'tendance spend...
Page 94 - And in the thickest covert of that shade, There was a pleasant arbour, not by art, But of the trees...
Page xxix - For the methode of a poet historical is not such as of an historiographer. For an historiographer discourseth of affayres orderly as they were donne, accounting as well the times as the actions; but a poet thrusteth into the middest, even where it most concerneth him, and there recoursing to the thinges forepaste, and divining of thinges to come, maketh a pleasing analysis of all.
Page 116 - Who seem'd of riper years than the other swain, Yet was that other swain this elder's sire, And gave him being, common to them twain : His garment was disguised very vain, And his embroidered bonnet sat awry ; Twixt both his hands few sparks he close did strain, Which still he blew, and kindled busily, That soon they life conceiv'd and forth in flames did fly.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Spenser's Britomart: From Books III, IV, and V of the Faery Queene |
| Author | Edmund Spenser |
| Editor | Mary Elizabeth Litchfield |
| Publisher | Ginn, 1896 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 265 pages |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |