The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 1C. C. Little and J. Brown, 1839 |
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... hath bene the usual practise of the most exquisite and odde wittes in all nations , and especially in Italie , rather to shewe and advaunce themselves that way than any other ; as namely , those three dyscoursing heads , Bibiena ...
... hath bene the usual practise of the most exquisite and odde wittes in all nations , and especially in Italie , rather to shewe and advaunce themselves that way than any other ; as namely , those three dyscoursing heads , Bibiena ...
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... hath devised , the which is the purpose of these twelve books ; which , if I find to be well accepted , I may be perhaps encouraged to frame the other part of politic virtues in his person , after that he came to be king . " If this ...
... hath devised , the which is the purpose of these twelve books ; which , if I find to be well accepted , I may be perhaps encouraged to frame the other part of politic virtues in his person , after that he came to be king . " If this ...
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... hath ensampled a good gov- ernour and a vertuous man , the one in his Ilias , the other in his Odysseis ; then Virgil , whose like intention was to doe in the person of Æneas ; after him Ariosto comprised them both in his Orlando ; and ...
... hath ensampled a good gov- ernour and a vertuous man , the one in his Ilias , the other in his Odysseis ; then Virgil , whose like intention was to doe in the person of Æneas ; after him Ariosto comprised them both in his Orlando ; and ...
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... hath enricht thy braynes , That leades thy Muse in haughty verse to maske , And loath the layes that longs to lowly swaynes ; That liftes thy notes from Shepheardes unto Kinges : So like the lively Larke that mounting singes . Thy ...
... hath enricht thy braynes , That leades thy Muse in haughty verse to maske , And loath the layes that longs to lowly swaynes ; That liftes thy notes from Shepheardes unto Kinges : So like the lively Larke that mounting singes . Thy ...
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... hath poore Pastors oaten reedes From rusticke tunes , to chaunt heroique deedes . So mought thy Redcrosse Knight with happy hand Victorius be in that faire Ilands right , ( Which thou dost vayle in type of Faery land , ) Elizas blessed ...
... hath poore Pastors oaten reedes From rusticke tunes , to chaunt heroique deedes . So mought thy Redcrosse Knight with happy hand Victorius be in that faire Ilands right , ( Which thou dost vayle in type of Faery land , ) Elizas blessed ...
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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.