Spenser's Britomart: From Books III, IV, and V of the Faery QueeneGinn, 1896 - 265 pages |
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Page xi
... eyes , fantastically arrayed as a Spanish grandee or as a French beau of the period . The plays given in the court - yards of the inns are sure to have aroused Spenser's enthusiasm ; and tucked in among his burly elders he doubtless ...
... eyes , fantastically arrayed as a Spanish grandee or as a French beau of the period . The plays given in the court - yards of the inns are sure to have aroused Spenser's enthusiasm ; and tucked in among his burly elders he doubtless ...
Page xii
... eyes of man might be seen in or near the London of Spenser's day . The queen never moved but in a show . The most trifling occasion was celebrated by allegorical representations . The vices and virtues became as familiar to the sight as ...
... eyes of man might be seen in or near the London of Spenser's day . The queen never moved but in a show . The most trifling occasion was celebrated by allegorical representations . The vices and virtues became as familiar to the sight as ...
Page xvi
... eyes so far as he could to the barbarous scenes of English rule ( or misrule ) , and have taken refuge in the more attractive world of the imagination . Instead of this , we find him some years later writing his " View of the Present ...
... eyes so far as he could to the barbarous scenes of English rule ( or misrule ) , and have taken refuge in the more attractive world of the imagination . Instead of this , we find him some years later writing his " View of the Present ...
Page xvii
... eyes were closed to the actual world ; and Spenser , forgetting the loneliness of his position , could transform the scenes of violence and dis- order , whose echoes reached him , into glorious knightly achievements , and could people ...
... eyes were closed to the actual world ; and Spenser , forgetting the loneliness of his position , could transform the scenes of violence and dis- order , whose echoes reached him , into glorious knightly achievements , and could people ...
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... eye she backward threw , As fearing evil that pursued her fast ; And her fair yellow locks behind her flew , Loosely dispersed with puff of every blast : All as a blazing star doth far outcast 1 Envy , emulate . 2 Surquedry , insolence ...
... eye she backward threw , As fearing evil that pursued her fast ; And her fair yellow locks behind her flew , Loosely dispersed with puff of every blast : All as a blazing star doth far outcast 1 Envy , emulate . 2 Surquedry , insolence ...
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adventure Amongst Amoret apayed arms Artegall assay bade beauty Belphoebe Blandamour blood bold breast Britomart Briton brought Certes Chrysaor cruel dame dear despite dight dismayed doth dreadful Eftsoones ensample faery knight Faery Queene fair Britomart fair ladies fairest false fear fell fiercely fight Florimell foul gentle Glaucè goodly Grantorto grief ground habergeon hand hard hath heart heaven Hight lady late light living loath Lord Lord Grey maid Maidenhead Merlin mighty mind mote nigh noble nought pain Paridell peril poet pow'r prince quoth Redcross Redcross knight rest revenge Satyrane Scudamour seemed shame shield sight sith soon sore sorrow spear Spenser sprite steed Stound stout strange stroke Talus tell thee thence thereof therewith things thou thought Triamond unto villeins warlike ween weet whenas whilom wight wist wonder wound wrath wreak wretched yield
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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.