The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 1C. C. Little and J. Brown, 1839 |
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... give the person who presented the verses fifty pounds ; and , proceeding to the next stanza , he raised the gift to a hundred ; which , on reading a third stanza , he doubled , 1 ૐ and commanded the steward to give it him immediately ...
... give the person who presented the verses fifty pounds ; and , proceeding to the next stanza , he raised the gift to a hundred ; which , on reading a third stanza , he doubled , 1 ૐ and commanded the steward to give it him immediately ...
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Edmund Spenser George Stillman Hillard. and commanded the steward to give it him immediately , lest , advancing his reward in proportion to the pleasure he received in reading the poem , he should give him more than he had . 66 From the ...
Edmund Spenser George Stillman Hillard. and commanded the steward to give it him immediately , lest , advancing his reward in proportion to the pleasure he received in reading the poem , he should give him more than he had . 66 From the ...
Page xii
... give the names of the Nine Muses , ( and in one mans fansie not unworthily , ) come not nearer Ariostoes Comœdies , eyther for the finenesse of plausible eloqution , or the rarenesse of poetical invention , than that Elvish Queene doth ...
... give the names of the Nine Muses , ( and in one mans fansie not unworthily , ) come not nearer Ariostoes Comœdies , eyther for the finenesse of plausible eloqution , or the rarenesse of poetical invention , than that Elvish Queene doth ...
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... give , to want , to be undonne . " That this forcible description is derived from the poet's personal experience of the miseries he describes , can hardly be doubted ; and Burleigh is probably the peer to whom an allusion is made . That ...
... give , to want , to be undonne . " That this forcible description is derived from the poet's personal experience of the miseries he describes , can hardly be doubted ; and Burleigh is probably the peer to whom an allusion is made . That ...
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... give variety and interest to his poem . Such stores of learning , such force of description and exuberance of imagery , so much of " Truth severe , in fairy fiction drest , " 66 were never amassed together before , and will probably ...
... give variety and interest to his poem . Such stores of learning , such force of description and exuberance of imagery , so much of " Truth severe , in fairy fiction drest , " 66 were never amassed together before , and will probably ...
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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.