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... head of a state . The ethical virtues are twelve in number , of which seven - Holiness , Temperance , Chastity , Friendship , Jus- tice , Courtesy , and Constancy - form the subjects of the seven books of the poem as extant . But ...
... head of a state . The ethical virtues are twelve in number , of which seven - Holiness , Temperance , Chastity , Friendship , Jus- tice , Courtesy , and Constancy - form the subjects of the seven books of the poem as extant . But ...
Page xvi
... head is not always a safe guide to itself ; hence in the contest with Joylessness , Holiness comes off victorious , indeed , but sore wounded -not scatheless , as when it fought with and slew Error , The Dwarf . under Truth's guidance ...
... head is not always a safe guide to itself ; hence in the contest with Joylessness , Holiness comes off victorious , indeed , but sore wounded -not scatheless , as when it fought with and slew Error , The Dwarf . under Truth's guidance ...
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... head— Duessa . Her tender heart spares her enemy's life , but her truth unflinchingly exposes her character in all its loathsome nakedness : - " Such is the face of Falsehood . " No lips so fitted to utter these words as Una's , no ...
... head— Duessa . Her tender heart spares her enemy's life , but her truth unflinchingly exposes her character in all its loathsome nakedness : - " Such is the face of Falsehood . " No lips so fitted to utter these words as Una's , no ...
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... head of the History ; that from thence gathering the whole intention of the conceit , ye may as in a handfull gripe al the discourse , which otherwise may happily seeme tedious and confused . So , humbly craving the con- tinuance of ...
... head of the History ; that from thence gathering the whole intention of the conceit , ye may as in a handfull gripe al the discourse , which otherwise may happily seeme tedious and confused . So , humbly craving the con- tinuance of ...
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... head ; whose folds displaid Were stretcht now forth at length without entraile . She lookt about , and seeing one in mayle , Armed to point , sought backe to turne againe ; For light she hated as the deadly bale , Ay wont in desert ...
... head ; whose folds displaid Were stretcht now forth at length without entraile . She lookt about , and seeing one in mayle , Armed to point , sought backe to turne againe ; For light she hated as the deadly bale , Ay wont in desert ...
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Aeneid allegory Archimago Ariosto armes Arthur Ayenbite of Inwyt beast beauty Ben Jonson Bevis of Hampton blood brest called CANTO Castle Chaucer chivalry Christian Church cruell Dame deadly deare death doen doth dragon dread Duessa earth Elfin knight Euphuism eyes Faerie Queene faire Fairfax's Tasso faith false fayre feare fight Fletcher Germ goodly griefe hand hart hath heaven heavenly hence Hesiod hight Holiness Holinshed Homer Iliad Jonson king Lady Latin light literally living Lord Low Lat meaning Milton Morte d'Arthur never nigh nought occurs Ovid Pagan Parv Piers Plowman powre pride Prince quoth Redcross Redcross Knight romance Sansfoy Scotch seemd seems sense Shakspere Shep shield sight Spenser stanza substantive Tale thee thou tree Truth Una's unto v.n. ii v.n. vii v.n. xi verb viii Virgil virtues wandring whence wight word wound wyde yron
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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...