Spenser's Faerie Queene, Volume 1J. and R. Tonson in the Strand, 1758 - Epic poetry, English |
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... heare thou not Abfolon , That chauntith thus under our bouris wall ? i . e . under the wall where our bed - chamber is . Brazoned Bours , B. i . C. 8. St. 41. well - finewed arms . Chaucer ufes Brawnis finews . - Bour , à bugen ...
... heare thou not Abfolon , That chauntith thus under our bouris wall ? i . e . under the wall where our bed - chamber is . Brazoned Bours , B. i . C. 8. St. 41. well - finewed arms . Chaucer ufes Brawnis finews . - Bour , à bugen ...
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... heare the birdes sweete harmony , Which therein shrouded from the tempest dred , Seemd in their fong to scorne the cruell sky . Much can they praise the trees so straight and hy , The fayling pine , the cedar proud and tall , The vine ...
... heare the birdes sweete harmony , Which therein shrouded from the tempest dred , Seemd in their fong to scorne the cruell sky . Much can they praise the trees so straight and hy , The fayling pine , the cedar proud and tall , The vine ...
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... heare , Of a firaunge man I can you tidings tell , That wafteth all this countrie farre and neare . Of fuch , faid he , Ichiefly doe inquere ; And fhall thee well rewarde to fhew the place , In which that wicked wight his dayes doth ...
... heare , Of a firaunge man I can you tidings tell , That wafteth all this countrie farre and neare . Of fuch , faid he , Ichiefly doe inquere ; And fhall thee well rewarde to fhew the place , In which that wicked wight his dayes doth ...
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... heare what fhee did tell ; And faid , Faire lady , hart of flint would rew The undeferved woes and forrowes , which ye fhew . XXVII . Henceforth in fafe affuraunce may ye rest , Having both found a new friend you to aid , And loft an ...
... heare what fhee did tell ; And faid , Faire lady , hart of flint would rew The undeferved woes and forrowes , which ye fhew . XXVII . Henceforth in fafe affuraunce may ye rest , Having both found a new friend you to aid , And loft an ...
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... heare , And to this wretched lady , my deare love O too deare love , love bought with death too deare ! Aftond he stood , and up his heare did hove ; And with that fuddein horror could no member move . XXXII . At At laft whenas the ...
... heare , And to this wretched lady , my deare love O too deare love , love bought with death too deare ! Aftond he stood , and up his heare did hove ; And with that fuddein horror could no member move . XXXII . At At laft whenas the ...
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againſt Anglo-S Archimago armes beaſt Belphoebe blood breft Britomart brond caft CANTO Chaucer CHIG cloſe cruell dame deare defire devize doth dreadfull Eftfoones elfin knight faery Faery Queene faft faid faire faire ladies falfe fame farre faſt fayd fayre feare fecret feeke feemd feeme felfe fhall fhew fide fight firſt flaine fleepe Florimell flowre fome fonne foone fore forrow fowle fpelt freſh ftill fuch Gall gentle goodly grone guife Guyon hart hath herſelfe hight himſelfe Ital knight lady laft laſt lord moft moſt mote nigh nought pleaſure powre prince Queen quoth reft reſt ſaw ſee ſeemed ſhall ſhe ſhield ſhould Sith ſpeare Spenfer ſpright ſtay ſteed ſtill ſtrong ſweet thee themſelves theſe thoſe thou thouſand trew ufed UNIV unto uſed vaine villein weene whenas whofe Whoſe wight wize wonne wyde XXVIII
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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...