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... bold and nervous , and the narrative in general unembarrassed . Take , for example , the following description of the ape purloining the crown , sceptre , and hide " which he had doft for heat , " from the King of the Forest . To this ...
... bold and nervous , and the narrative in general unembarrassed . Take , for example , the following description of the ape purloining the crown , sceptre , and hide " which he had doft for heat , " from the King of the Forest . To this ...
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... bold Sans- xx . The lady , when she saw her champion fall , Like the old ruines of a broken towre , Staid not to waile his woefull funerall ; But from him fled away with all her powre : Who after her as hastily gan scowre , Bidding the ...
... bold Sans- xx . The lady , when she saw her champion fall , Like the old ruines of a broken towre , Staid not to waile his woefull funerall ; But from him fled away with all her powre : Who after her as hastily gan scowre , Bidding the ...
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... bold From whom her booteth not at all to flie : Who , by her cleanly garment catching hold , Her from her palfrey pluckt , her visage to behold XLI . But her fiers servant , full of kingly CANTO III . 21 THE FAERIE QUEENE .
... bold From whom her booteth not at all to flie : Who , by her cleanly garment catching hold , Her from her palfrey pluckt , her visage to behold XLI . But her fiers servant , full of kingly CANTO III . 21 THE FAERIE QUEENE .
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... bold Sansfoy shrinck underneath his speare ; And now the pray of fowles in field he lyes , Nor wayld of friendes , nor layd on groning beare , That whylome was to me too dearely deare . O ! what of gods then boots it to be borne , If ...
... bold Sansfoy shrinck underneath his speare ; And now the pray of fowles in field he lyes , Nor wayld of friendes , nor layd on groning beare , That whylome was to me too dearely deare . O ! what of gods then boots it to be borne , If ...
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... bold Semiramis , whose sides transfixt With sonnes own blade her fowle reproches spoke : Fayre Sthenoboa , that her selfe did choke With wilfull chord , for wanting of her will ; High - minded Cleopatra , that with stroke Of aspės sting ...
... bold Semiramis , whose sides transfixt With sonnes own blade her fowle reproches spoke : Fayre Sthenoboa , that her selfe did choke With wilfull chord , for wanting of her will ; High - minded Cleopatra , that with stroke Of aspės sting ...
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Page 90 - How oft do they their silver bowers leave, To come to succour us that succour want ! How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The...
Page 18 - A lovely Ladie rode him faire beside, Upon a lowly Asse more white then snow, Yet she much whiter ; but the same did hide Under a vele, that wimpled was full low...
Page 389 - So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight With cheerful grace and amiable sight; For of the soul the body form doth take; For soul is form, and doth the body make.
Page 500 - ... anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves ; they did eat the dead carrions, happy where they could find them, yea, and one another soon after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and, if they found a plot of water-cresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue therewithal ; that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly...
Page 427 - ONE day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away : Agayne I wrote it with a second hand ; But came the tyde, and made my paynes his pray.
Page 16 - ... 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. The beginning therefore of my history, if it were to be told by an historiographer, should be the twelfth booke, which is the last; where I devise that the Faery Queene kept her annuall feaste xii.
Page 18 - Ne ever would to any by-way bend, But still did follow one unto the end, The which at last out of the wood them brought. So forward on his way (with God to frend) He passed forth, and new adventure sought; Long way he travelled, before he heard of ought.
Page 412 - Of fowles so lovely, that they sure did deeme Them heavenly borne, or to be that same payre Which through the skie draw Venus...
Page 16 - So in the person of Prince Arthure I sette forth magnificence in particular, which vertue for that (according to Aristotle and the rest) it is the perfection of all the rest, and conteineth in it them all...
Page 346 - I well consider all that ye have sayd, And find that all things stedfastnes doe hate And changed be: yet being rightly wayd, They are not changed from their first estate; But by their change their being doe dilate: And turning to themselves at length againe, Doe worke their owne perfection so by fate: Then over them Change doth not rule and raigne; But they raigne over Change, and doe their states maintaine.