Fourth booke of the Faerie Queene, canto I-XIIF. C. & J. Rivington, 1805 - English poetry |
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... former part of this note . The book rarely occurs . The following edition of it belongs to the Earl Gower . " The Booke of Meery Riddles . Together with proper Questions , and witty Prouerbs to make pleafant paftime . No leffe vfefull ...
... former part of this note . The book rarely occurs . The following edition of it belongs to the Earl Gower . " The Booke of Meery Riddles . Together with proper Questions , and witty Prouerbs to make pleafant paftime . No leffe vfefull ...
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... former means a groove . fpelling is altered , that the letters might anfwer in the rhyme : but the word itself is not fo very improper , if we look into its original fignification . " Groove , ftria , fodina . Ilandis , groof eft lacuna ...
... former means a groove . fpelling is altered , that the letters might anfwer in the rhyme : but the word itself is not fo very improper , if we look into its original fignification . " Groove , ftria , fodina . Ilandis , groof eft lacuna ...
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... former fuit , and from them fled apace : They after both , and boldly bad him bace , IV . 4 . all that I ever finde : ] So the first edi- tion reads ; which Hughes's fecond edition , and those of 1751 , Church , and Upton , follow , The ...
... former fuit , and from them fled apace : They after both , and boldly bad him bace , IV . 4 . all that I ever finde : ] So the first edi- tion reads ; which Hughes's fecond edition , and those of 1751 , Church , and Upton , follow , The ...
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... former languishing ! Faire Amorett muft dwell in wicked chaines , And Scudamore here die with forrowing ! " Perdy not fo , " faide fhee ; " for fhameful thing 66 Yt were t ' abandon noble chevifaunce , For fhewe of perill , without ...
... former languishing ! Faire Amorett muft dwell in wicked chaines , And Scudamore here die with forrowing ! " Perdy not fo , " faide fhee ; " for fhameful thing 66 Yt were t ' abandon noble chevifaunce , For fhewe of perill , without ...
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... former was that roome , And richlier , by many partes , arayd ; For not with arras made in painefull loome , But with pure gold it all was overlayd , Wrought with wilde antickes which their follies playd In the rich metall , as they ...
... former was that roome , And richlier , by many partes , arayd ; For not with arras made in painefull loome , But with pure gold it all was overlayd , Wrought with wilde antickes which their follies playd In the rich metall , as they ...
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againſt alfo Amoret Blandamour Britomart Canto Chaucer CHURCH cloſe cruell Dame deare defire doth dreadfull edition in 1758 edition reads eftfoones expreffion F. Q. iii Faerie Queene faft faid faire faire Ladies falfe fame farre fayd feare fecond fecret feeke feem'd feems feene fhew fide fight filk firft firſt flaine Florimell folios fome foone fore forrow freſh ftill fuch fure goodly hart hath herfelfe hight himſelfe Hughes JORTIN Knight Ladies laft laſt leffe likewife Malbecco moft moſt mote nought obferved Ovid paffage paffed Paridell pleaſure poet powre reft reſt Satyrane Scudamour ſhe ſhould Spenfer Spenfer's own edition Squire ſtay ſtill ſtrong thefe themſelves thence theſe third folios thofe thoſe thou thouſand TODD Tonfon's edition Triamond ufed unto UPTON uſed vaine Venus viii Virgil WARTON weene weet whenas whofe whoſe wight XXXII
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Page 26 - For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
Page 448 - Ouse came far from land, By many a city and by many a towne And many rivers taking under-hand Into his waters as he passeth downe, The Cle, the Were, the Grant, the Sture, the Rowne. Thence doth by Huntingdon and Cambridge flit, My mother Cambridge, whom as with a Crowne He doth adorne, and is adorn'd of it With many a gentle Muse and many a learned wit.
Page 272 - Right fit to rend the food on which he fared. His name was Care ; a blacksmith by his trade, That neither day nor night from working spared, But to small purpose yron wedges made ; Those be unquiet thoughts that...
Page 442 - Before the spouse : that was Arion crownd ; Who, playing on his harpe, unto him drew The eares and hearts of all that goodly crew, That even yet the Dolphin, which him bore Through the Agsan seas from Pirates vew, Stood still by him astonisht at his lore, And all the raging seas for joy forgot to rore.
Page 402 - Thus having past all perill, I was come Within the compasse of that Islands space ; The which did seeme, unto my simple doome, The onely pleasant and delightfull place That ever troden was of footings trace : For all that nature by her mother-wit Could frame in earth, and forme of substance base, Was there ; and all that nature did omit, Art, playing second natures part, supplyed it.
Page 325 - Majestic fixed upon him, as she was wont to doe, and to daunt men she knew not, stirred the blood of the young gentleman, insomuch as his colour went and came, which the...
Page 419 - They all doe learne to play the Paramours; First doe the merry birds, thy prety pages Privily pricked with thy lustfull powres, Chirpe loud to thee out of their leavy cages, And thee their mother call to coole their kindly rages.
Page 136 - For it of honor and all vertue is The roote, and brings forth glorious flowres of fame, That crowne true lovers with immortall blis, The meed of them that love, and do not live amisse.
Page 394 - Although the Roman or Grecian architecture did not begin to prevail in England till the time of Inigo Jones; yet our communication with the Italians, and our imitation of their manners, produced fome fpecimens of that ftylc much earlier.
Page 153 - And loathly mouth, unmeete a mouth to bee, That nought but gall and venim comprehended, And wicked wordes that God and man offended. Her lying tongue was in two parts divided, And both the parts did speake, and both contended ; And as her tongue so was her hart discided, That never thoght one thing, but doubly stil was guided.