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... Death ; Phineas Fletcher , in the Purple Island ; both using a slight modification of Spenser's stanza ; and in part by Browne in his Britannia's Pastorals . The intense originality of the Pilgrim's Progress excludes it from this list ...
... Death ; Phineas Fletcher , in the Purple Island ; both using a slight modification of Spenser's stanza ; and in part by Browne in his Britannia's Pastorals . The intense originality of the Pilgrim's Progress excludes it from this list ...
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... withstood , They flocked all about her bleeding wound , And sucked up their dying mothers bloud , Making her death their life , and eke her hurt their good . 26 That detestable sight him much amazde , To see 8 [ BOOK I. THE FAERIE QUEENE .
... withstood , They flocked all about her bleeding wound , And sucked up their dying mothers bloud , Making her death their life , and eke her hurt their good . 26 That detestable sight him much amazde , To see 8 [ BOOK I. THE FAERIE QUEENE .
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... death When tidings came to mee , unhappy maid , O , how great sorrow my sad soule assaid ! Then forth I went his woefull corse to find , And many yeares throughout the world I straid , A virgin widow , whose deepe wounded mind With love ...
... death When tidings came to mee , unhappy maid , O , how great sorrow my sad soule assaid ! Then forth I went his woefull corse to find , And many yeares throughout the world I straid , A virgin widow , whose deepe wounded mind With love ...
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... death too deare ! ' Astond he stood , and up his heare did hove ; And with that suddein horror could no member move . he thus bespake : 32 At last whenas the dreadfull passion Was overpast , and manhood well awake , Yet musing at the ...
... death too deare ! ' Astond he stood , and up his heare did hove ; And with that suddein horror could no member move . he thus bespake : 32 At last whenas the dreadfull passion Was overpast , and manhood well awake , Yet musing at the ...
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... death , when she had marked long , Her hart gan melt in great compassion ; And drizling teares did shed for pure affection . 7 ' The Lyon , Lord of everie beast in field , ' Quoth she , ' his princely puissance doth abate , And mightie ...
... death , when she had marked long , Her hart gan melt in great compassion ; And drizling teares did shed for pure affection . 7 ' The Lyon , Lord of everie beast in field , ' Quoth she , ' his princely puissance doth abate , And mightie ...
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Page 217 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
Page 260 - And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth : and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
Page 296 - Whereupon, neither the first testament was dedicated without blood : for when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people, saying, This is the blood of the testament, which God hath enjoined unto you.
Page 320 - And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space. 11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
Page 166 - Virtue could see to do what Virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk.
Page 260 - And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion; and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
Page 11 - Which from a sacred fountaine welled forth alway. 35 Arrived there, the little house they fill, Ne looke for entertainement, where none was: Rest is their feast, and all thinges at their will; The noblest mind the best contentment has. With faire discourse the evening so they pas : For that olde man of pleasing wordes had store, And well could file his tongue as smooth as glas, He told of Saintes and Popes, and evermore He strowd an Ave-Mary after and before.
Page 306 - And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God...
Page 185 - And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls...
Page 202 - In hurdled cotes amid the field secure, Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold : Or as a thief bent to unhoard the cash Of some rich burgher, whose substantial doors...