The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 1C. C. Little and J. Brown, 1839 |
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Page xv
... expression , and contains many lines of great power ; the most striking example of which is the well- known description of the miseries of a suitor at court . " Muiopot- mos , or the Fate of the Butterflie , " is also a very agreeable ...
... expression , and contains many lines of great power ; the most striking example of which is the well- known description of the miseries of a suitor at court . " Muiopot- mos , or the Fate of the Butterflie , " is also a very agreeable ...
Page xvi
... expression of feeling ; but it is , like most of Spenser's minor pieces , extended to an injudicious length . The ... expressions , than of real feeling of danger or impropriety in the poems . This year also produced his " Protha- lamion ...
... expression of feeling ; but it is , like most of Spenser's minor pieces , extended to an injudicious length . The ... expressions , than of real feeling of danger or impropriety in the poems . This year also produced his " Protha- lamion ...
Page xxvi
... expressing this moral in the history but by making Prince Arthur appear in each adventure , and in a manner subordinate to its proper hero ? Thus , though inferior to each in his own specific virtue , he is superior to all , by uniting ...
... expressing this moral in the history but by making Prince Arthur appear in each adventure , and in a manner subordinate to its proper hero ? Thus , though inferior to each in his own specific virtue , he is superior to all , by uniting ...
Page xxvii
... expression , one of the " deepest works of wit ; " his allegories involve a profound wisdom and an accurate knowledge of man . He had reflected deeply on his subject , and he wrote with a " learned spirit . " His vivid pictures seem to ...
... expression , one of the " deepest works of wit ; " his allegories involve a profound wisdom and an accurate knowledge of man . He had reflected deeply on his subject , and he wrote with a " learned spirit . " His vivid pictures seem to ...
Page xxxiii
... expression , and has obliged him repeatedly to alter the orthography of words , that , if he cannot satisfy the ear ... expressions with which he has accompanied some of his descriptions ; as , for example , those of Error and Envy ...
... expression , and has obliged him repeatedly to alter the orthography of words , that , if he cannot satisfy the ear ... expressions with which he has accompanied some of his descriptions ; as , for example , those of Error and Envy ...
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Page xxxii - The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: Thou maintainest my lot. The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.
Page 42 - He, making speedy way through spersed ayre, And through the world of waters wide and deepe, To Morpheus house doth hastily repaire. Amid the bowels of the earth full steepe, And low, where dawning day doth never peepe, His dwelling is ; there Tethys his wet bed Doth ever wash, and Cynthia still doth steepe In silver deaw his ever-drouping hed, Whiles sad Night over him her mantle black doth spred.
Page 32 - Joying to heare the birdes sweete harmony, Which, therein shrouded from the tempest dred, Seemd in their song to scorne the cruell sky. Much can they praise the trees so straight and hy, The sayling Pine...
Page 3 - The generall end, therefore, of all the booke, is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline...
Page 30 - 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...
Page xlix - THREE years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, 'A lovelier flower On earth was never sown ! This child I to myself will take ; She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own. 'Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse ; and with me The girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain.
Page xxxiii - If music and sweet poetry agree, As they must needs, the sister and the brother, Then must the love be great 'twixt thee and me, Because thou lov'st the one, and I the other. Dowland to thee is dear, whose heavenly touch Upon the lute doth ravish human sense ; Spenser to me, whose deep conceit is such, As, passing all conceit, needs no defence.
Page xviii - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tride, What hell it is, in suing long to bide : To loose good dayes, that might be better spent; To wast long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow...
Page 4 - Arthure, before he was king, the image of a brave Knight, perfected in the twelve private Morall Vertues, as Aristotle hath devised...
Page 40 - the way to win Is wisely to advise: now day is spent; Therefore with me ye may take up your In For this same night.