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... maid would not disarmèd be , But only vented up her umbriëre , 1 And so did let her goodly visage to appear . 38 As when fair Cynthia , " in darksome night , Is in a noyous cloud envelopèd , Where she may find the substance thin and ...
... maid would not disarmèd be , But only vented up her umbriëre , 1 And so did let her goodly visage to appear . 38 As when fair Cynthia , " in darksome night , Is in a noyous cloud envelopèd , Where she may find the substance thin and ...
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... maid All in her snow - white smock , with locks unbound , Threat'ning the point of her avenging blade ; That with so troublous terror they were all dismayed . 47 About their lady first they flocked around ; Whom having laid in ...
... maid All in her snow - white smock , with locks unbound , Threat'ning the point of her avenging blade ; That with so troublous terror they were all dismayed . 47 About their lady first they flocked around ; Whom having laid in ...
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... maid what uncouth 13 wind Brought her into those parts , and what inquest Made her dissemble her disguisèd kind 15 : Fair lady she him seemed , like lady dressed , But fairest knight alive , when armèd was her breast . 1 That , so that ...
... maid what uncouth 13 wind Brought her into those parts , and what inquest Made her dissemble her disguisèd kind 15 : Fair lady she him seemed , like lady dressed , But fairest knight alive , when armèd was her breast . 1 That , so that ...
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... maid , Certes 12 ye misavisèd 13 been t ' upbraid A gentle 14 knight with so unknightly blame : 1 Card , chart . 2 Greater Britain . Church says that this means Wales , and is so called to distinguish it from Lesser Brittany in France ...
... maid , Certes 12 ye misavisèd 13 been t ' upbraid A gentle 14 knight with so unknightly blame : 1 Card , chart . 2 Greater Britain . Church says that this means Wales , and is so called to distinguish it from Lesser Brittany in France ...
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... maid woxe9 inly wondrous glad , To hear her love so highly magnified ; And joyed that ever she affixèd had Her heart on knight so goodly glorified , However finely 10 she it feigned to hide . 12 But to occasion him to further talk , To ...
... maid woxe9 inly wondrous glad , To hear her love so highly magnified ; And joyed that ever she affixèd had Her heart on knight so goodly glorified , However finely 10 she it feigned to hide . 12 But to occasion him to further talk , To ...
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Page ix - Did both find, helpers to their hearts' desire, And stuff at hand, plastic as they could wish, — Were called upon to exercise their skill, Not in Utopia, — subterranean fields, — Or some secreted island, Heaven knows where! But in the very world, which is the world Of all of us, — the place where, in the end, We find our happiness, or not at all...
Page xxii - The generall end therefore of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline...
Page xxx - Queene to assygne her some one of her knights to take on him that exployt. Presently that clownish person upstarting, desired that adventure; whereat the Queene much wondering, and the Lady much gainesaying, yet he earnestly importuned his desire...
Page xv - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide : To lose good days, that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Princes
Page xxvii - I have followed all the antique Poets historicall, first Homere, who in the Persons of Agamemnon and Ulysses hath ensampled a good governour 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...
Page 94 - And in the thickest covert of that shade, There was a pleasant arbour, not by art, But of the trees...
Page xxix - The beginning therefore of my history, if it were to be told by an Historiographer should be the twelfth booke, which is the last; where I devise that the Faery Queene kept her Annuall feaste xii.
Page xi - Fit to deck maidens' bowers, And crown their paramours Against the bridal day, which is not long: Sweet Thames! run softly, till I end my song.
Page xxix - For the methode of a poet historical is not such as of an historiographer. For an historiographer discourseth of affayres orderly as they were donne, accounting as well the times as the actions; but a poet thrusteth into the middest, even where it most concerneth him, and there recoursing to the thinges forepaste, and divining of thinges to come, maketh a pleasing analysis of all.
Page xv - To have thy asking, yet wait many years ; To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares — To eat thy heart through comfortless despairs. To fawn, to crouch, to wait, to ride, to run, To spend, to give, to want, to be undone.