Spenser's Britomart: From Books III, IV, and V of the Faery QueeneGinn, 1896 - 265 pages |
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Page vii
... heart against the dreaded power of Catholic Spain , and which , later , enabled him to resist successfully the tyranny of his own rulers . The translation of the Bible exercised an influence upon the development of English literature ...
... heart against the dreaded power of Catholic Spain , and which , later , enabled him to resist successfully the tyranny of his own rulers . The translation of the Bible exercised an influence upon the development of English literature ...
Page viii
... heart " the greatest civilizing force of modern times . As we consider these facts we begin to see why the man of the Elizabethan Age differed in many respects both from his predecessors and from his descendants . We can now account for ...
... heart " the greatest civilizing force of modern times . As we consider these facts we begin to see why the man of the Elizabethan Age differed in many respects both from his predecessors and from his descendants . We can now account for ...
Page xv
... 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 . The years ...
... 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 . The years ...
Page xx
... heart ; nor does he , like Wordsworth , find a new and hidden beauty in the " meanest flower that blows . " And yet Milton calls him " a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas , " and Wordsworth in his Prelude says : And that gentle Bard ...
... heart ; nor does he , like Wordsworth , find a new and hidden beauty in the " meanest flower that blows . " And yet Milton calls him " a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas , " and Wordsworth in his Prelude says : And that gentle Bard ...
Page xxi
... heart's ease , where no ache or sorrow of spirit can enter . " Spenser is , as we have seen , peculiarly the represent- ative of his own age in its higher aspects . As in the more realistic of the Elizabethan dramatists we see pictured ...
... heart's ease , where no ache or sorrow of spirit can enter . " Spenser is , as we have seen , peculiarly the represent- ative of his own age in its higher aspects . As in the more realistic of the Elizabethan dramatists we see pictured ...
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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.