Spenser's Faerie Queene, Volume 1J. and R. Tonson in the Strand, 1758 - Epic poetry, English |
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... saw the Faery Queene : At whose approch the foul of Petrarke wept , And from thenceforth those Graces were not feene : For they this Queene attended , in whose steed Obliuion laid him down on Lauras herse : Hereat the hardest ftones ...
... saw the Faery Queene : At whose approch the foul of Petrarke wept , And from thenceforth those Graces were not feene : For they this Queene attended , in whose steed Obliuion laid him down on Lauras herse : Hereat the hardest ftones ...
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... saw the ugly monfter plaine , Halfe like a ferpent horribly difplaide , But th❜other halfe did womans fhape retaine , Moft lothfom , filthie , foule , and full of vile difdaine . XV . And as the lay upon the durtie ground , Her huge ...
... saw the ugly monfter plaine , Halfe like a ferpent horribly difplaide , But th❜other halfe did womans fhape retaine , Moft lothfom , filthie , foule , and full of vile difdaine . XV . And as the lay upon the durtie ground , Her huge ...
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... saw so rudely falling to the ground , Groning full deadly all with troublous feare Gathred themselves about her body round , Weening their wonted entrance to have found At her wide mouth : but being there withstood They flocked all ...
... saw so rudely falling to the ground , Groning full deadly all with troublous feare Gathred themselves about her body round , Weening their wonted entrance to have found At her wide mouth : but being there withstood They flocked all ...
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... beds , and ladies deare delight : But when he saw his labour all was vaine , With that misformed fpright he backe returnd againe . CANTO B CANTO II . The guilefull great enchaunter parts The 16 The first Booke of the.
... beds , and ladies deare delight : But when he saw his labour all was vaine , With that misformed fpright he backe returnd againe . CANTO B CANTO II . The guilefull great enchaunter parts The 16 The first Booke of the.
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... saw his threatning was but vaine , He cast about , and fearcht his baleful bokes againe .. III . Eftfoones he tooke that miscreated faire , And that falfe other spright , on whom he spred A feeming body of the fubtile aire , Like a ...
... saw his threatning was but vaine , He cast about , and fearcht his baleful bokes againe .. III . Eftfoones he tooke that miscreated faire , And that falfe other spright , on whom he spred A feeming body of the fubtile aire , Like a ...
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Page 429 - ... quight: And their great mother Venus did lament The losse of her deare brood, her deare delight: Her hart was pierst with pitty at the sight, When walking through the Gardin them she spyde, Yet no'te...
Page 120 - Or from the fielde most cowardly doth fly! Ne let the man ascribe it to his skill, That thorough grace hath gained victory: If any strength we have, it is to ill; But all the good is Gods, both power and eke will.
Page 12 - Then choosing out few words most horrible, (Let none them read!) thereof did.. verses frame; With which, and other spelles like terrible, He bad awake blacke Plutoes griesly dame; And cursed heven; and spake reprochful shame Of highest God, the Lord of life and light. A bold bad man ! that dar'd to call by name Great Gorgon, prince of darknes and dead night; At which Cocytus quakes, and Styx is put to flight.
Page 2 - A GENTLE Knight was pricking on the plaine, Ycladd in mightie armes and silver shielde, Wherein old dints of deepe woundes did remaine, The cruell markes of many a bloody fielde ; Yet armes till that time did he never wield : His angry steede did chide his foming bitt, As much disdayning to the curbe to yield : Full jolly knight he seemd, and faire did sitt, As one for knightly giusts and fierce encounters fitt.
Page 9 - Tasso dissevered them againe, and formed both parts in two persons, namely that part which they in Philosophy call Ethice, or vertues of a private man, coloured in his Rinaldo; the other named Politice in his Godfredo.
Page 93 - AT me! how many perils doe enfold The righteous man, to make him daily fall, Were not that heavenly grace doth him uphold, And stedfast truth acquite him out of all.
Page 659 - 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 114 - And all about old stockes and stubs of trees, Whereon nor fruit nor leafe was ever...
Page 30 - With gaping mouth at her ran greedily, To have attonce devourd her tender corse ; But to the pray when as he drew more ny, His bloody rage aswaged with remorse, And, with the sight amazd, forgat his furious forse. In stead thereof he kist her wearie feet, And lickt her lilly hands with fawning tong, As he her wronged innocence did weet.
Page 9 - I labour to pourtraict in Arthure, before he was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected in the twelve private morall vertues, as Aristotle hath devised, the which is the purpose of these first twelve...