Spenser's Britomart: From Books III, IV, and V of the Faery QueeneGinn, 1896 - 265 pages |
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... hard , actual world , - the world Of all of us , the place where in the end , We find our happiness , or not at all ; and he , like the commonest mortal , must grapple with facts , and gain strength and insight through experience ...
... hard , actual world , - the world Of all of us , the place where in the end , We find our happiness , or not at all ; and he , like the commonest mortal , must grapple with facts , and gain strength and insight through experience ...
Page xxi
... hard pressed . Still , we are not troubled ; for the eternal forces are at work and the victory is sure . As we read , the sense of earthly limi- tations passes away , and we find ourselves in a new world where we gladly linger ...
... hard pressed . Still , we are not troubled ; for the eternal forces are at work and the victory is sure . As we read , the sense of earthly limi- tations passes away , and we find ourselves in a new world where we gladly linger ...
Page xxx
... unable to per- forme it by reason of the hard Enchauntments , after long 1 Presently , immediately . 2 Eftesoones , immediately . 3 Groome , servant . sorrow , in the end met with Britomartis , who XXX INTRODUCTION .
... unable to per- forme it by reason of the hard Enchauntments , after long 1 Presently , immediately . 2 Eftesoones , immediately . 3 Groome , servant . sorrow , in the end met with Britomartis , who XXX INTRODUCTION .
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... hard a workmanship adventure darre , For fear through want of words her excellence to mar . 3 How then shall I , apprentice of the skill That whilom3 in divinest wits did reign , Presume so high to stretch mine humble quill ? Yet now my ...
... hard a workmanship adventure darre , For fear through want of words her excellence to mar . 3 How then shall I , apprentice of the skill That whilom3 in divinest wits did reign , Presume so high to stretch mine humble quill ? Yet now my ...
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... hard adventures did achieve ; Of all the which they honour ever won , Seeking the weak oppressed to relieve , And to recover right for such as wrong did grieve . 3 At last , as through an open plain they yode , They spied a knight that ...
... hard adventures did achieve ; Of all the which they honour ever won , Seeking the weak oppressed to relieve , And to recover right for such as wrong did grieve . 3 At last , as through an open plain they yode , They spied a knight that ...
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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.