The Canterbury Tales and Faerie Queene; with Other Poems of Chaucer and SpenserWilliam P. Nimmo, 1870 - 624 pages |
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... keep before his picture the screen of dust and cobwebs which , for the English people in these days , the crude forms of the in- fant language have practically become . Shakespeare has not suffered by similar changes ; Spenser has not ...
... keep before his picture the screen of dust and cobwebs which , for the English people in these days , the crude forms of the in- fant language have practically become . Shakespeare has not suffered by similar changes ; Spenser has not ...
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... keep , To see a shitten shepherd and clean sheep : Well ought a priest ensample for to give , By his own cleanness ... keeping the money he ness ; or gap - toothed - with gaps between her teeth . had made during the visitation of the ...
... keep , To see a shitten shepherd and clean sheep : Well ought a priest ensample for to give , By his own cleanness ... keeping the money he ness ; or gap - toothed - with gaps between her teeth . had made during the visitation of the ...
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... keep " of feudal castles ; it was employed to detain prisoners of importance . Hence the modern meaning of the word dungeon . 3 Adjoining . 6 Stop , start aside . 4 Saw . 5 Chance . 7 Imprisonment . 8 Wicked ; Saturn , in the old ...
... keep " of feudal castles ; it was employed to detain prisoners of importance . Hence the modern meaning of the word dungeon . 3 Adjoining . 6 Stop , start aside . 4 Saw . 5 Chance . 7 Imprisonment . 8 Wicked ; Saturn , in the old ...
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... keep me from the vengeance of thine ire , That Acteon aboughtë 21 cruelly : Chaste goddess , well wottest thou that I Desire to be a maiden all my life , Nor never will I be no love nor wife . I am , thou wost , 20 yet of thy company ...
... keep me from the vengeance of thine ire , That Acteon aboughtë 21 cruelly : Chaste goddess , well wottest thou that I Desire to be a maiden all my life , Nor never will I be no love nor wife . I am , thou wost , 20 yet of thy company ...
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Geoffrey Chaucer David Laing Purves. My maidenhead thou keep and well conserve , And , while I live , a maid I will thee serve . " The firës burn upon the altar clear , While Emily was thus in her prayére : But suddenly she saw a sightë ...
Geoffrey Chaucer David Laing Purves. My maidenhead thou keep and well conserve , And , while I live , a maid I will thee serve . " The firës burn upon the altar clear , While Emily was thus in her prayére : But suddenly she saw a sightë ...
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adown Anglo-Saxon anon Archimago Artegall beast bliss blood Britomart brought Canterbury Tales CANTO certes Chaucer counsel Court of Love Cressida cruel Dame daughter dear death doth dread Elfin Knight ev'ry evermore eyen eyes Faerie Queen Faery fair false farforth fast fear Florimell flow'r foul gentle Godde's gold goodly grace Grantorto Guyon hand hast hath heard heart heav'nly heaven hight honour House of Fame king knight Knight's Tale lady living lord lovers mannére mighty naught never nigh noble pain Pandarus pity poet pray Prince Queen quoth saidë saith sayn seem'd shalt shame shield shouldë sight slain soon sore sorrow spake Spenser sweet tale Talus tell thee Therewith Theseus thine thing thou thought Troilus Troilus and Cressida unto Venus ween wife wight wise withoutë wont word wouldë
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Page 406 - To th' instruments divine respondence meet: The silver sounding instruments did meet With the base murmure of the waters fall; The waters fall with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call: The gentle warbling wind low answered to all.
Page 388 - How oft do they their silver bowers leave, To come to succour us that succour want ! How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies, like flying pursuivant, Against foul fiends to aid us militant ! They for us fight, they watch and duly ward, And their bright squadrons round about us plant ; And all for love, and nothing for reward. O ! why should heavenly God to men have such regard ? The Faerie Queen, Book II.
Page 311 - Dwarfe did lag, That lasie seemd, in being ever last, Or wearied with bearing of her bag Of needments at his backe.
Page 320 - The lion would not leave her desolate, But with her went along, as a strong guard Of her chaste person, and a faithful mate Of her sad troubles and misfortunes hard ; Still, when she slept, he kept both watch and ward ; And, when she wak'd he waited diligent, With humble service to her will prepar'd : From her fair eyes he took commandement, And ever by her looks conceived her intent.
Page 305 - The generall end therefore of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline...
Page 311 - Upon a great adventure he was bound, That greatest Gloriana to him gave, (That greatest glorious queen of fairy lond,) To win him worship, and her grace to have, Which of all earthly things he most did crave...
Page 44 - What is this world? what asketh men to have? Now with his love, now in his colde grave Allone, withouten any compaignye.
Page 403 - Guyons senses softly tickeled, That he the boteman bad row easily, And let him heare some part of their rare melody.
Page 425 - To see so faire things mard, and spoyled quight : And their great mother Venus did lament The losse of her deare brood, her deare delight : Her hart was pierst with...
Page 295 - At length they all to merry London came, To merry London, my most kindly nurse, That to me gave this life's first native source, Though from another place I take my name, An house of ancient fame. There when they came, whereas those bricky towers The which on Thames...