Spenser's Britomart: From Books III, IV, and V of the Faery QueeneGinn, 1896 - 265 pages |
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... seemed in danger of being quenched ; but , with the coming of Elizabeth , herself a lover of Greek and Latin literature , the classics regained their supremacy , and the grammar schools , recently established , spread the love of ...
... seemed in danger of being quenched ; but , with the coming of Elizabeth , herself a lover of Greek and Latin literature , the classics regained their supremacy , and the grammar schools , recently established , spread the love of ...
Page xv
... seemed to the poet a period of exile . Taking into con- sideration the difficulty of communication in his time , he was doubtless farther from London , for him the cen- 1 Had ywist , had I known ; that is , vain regret . tre of the ...
... seemed to the poet a period of exile . Taking into con- sideration the difficulty of communication in his time , he was doubtless farther from London , for him the cen- 1 Had ywist , had I known ; that is , vain regret . tre of the ...
Page xxx
... seemed the goodliest man in al that company , and was well liked of the Lady . And eftesoones2 taking on him knighthood , and mounting on that straunge Courser , he went forth with her on that adventure : where beginneth the first booke ...
... seemed the goodliest man in al that company , and was well liked of the Lady . And eftesoones2 taking on him knighthood , and mounting on that straunge Courser , he went forth with her on that adventure : where beginneth the first booke ...
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... seemed to couch2 under his shield three- square , 3 As if that age bade him that burden spare , And yield it those that stouter 4 could it wield : He , them espying , gan himself prepare , And on his arm address his goodly shield That ...
... seemed to couch2 under his shield three- square , 3 As if that age bade him that burden spare , And yield it those that stouter 4 could it wield : He , them espying , gan himself prepare , And on his arm address his goodly shield That ...
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... seemed both shield and plate it would have rived 2 ; Natheless it bore his foe not from his sell , 1 But made him stagger , as he were not well : But Guyon self , ere well he was aware , Nigh a spear's length behind his crouper fell ...
... seemed both shield and plate it would have rived 2 ; Natheless it bore his foe not from his sell , 1 But made him stagger , as he were not well : But Guyon self , ere well he was aware , Nigh a spear's length behind his crouper fell ...
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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.