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Page vi
... ; the images of the Hebrew writers were in every mind , their phrases on every tongue . More than Homer to the Greek was the Bible to the Englishman ; for from it he gained that moral strength , that vi INTRODUCTION .
... ; the images of the Hebrew writers were in every mind , their phrases on every tongue . More than Homer to the Greek was the Bible to the Englishman ; for from it he gained that moral strength , that vi INTRODUCTION .
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... mind . Bunyan wrote his allegory in Bedford jail ; Milton saw the wonders of heaven and hell after his eyes were closed to the actual world ; and Spenser , forgetting the loneliness of his position , could transform the scenes of ...
... mind . Bunyan wrote his allegory in Bedford jail ; Milton saw the wonders of heaven and hell after his eyes were closed to the actual world ; and Spenser , forgetting the loneliness of his position , could transform the scenes of ...
Page xxi
... mind the best contentment has , " Spenser tells us . In the Faery Queene life is represented as a conflict in which the good are often hard pressed . Still , we are not troubled ; for the eternal forces are at work and the victory is ...
... mind the best contentment has , " Spenser tells us . In the Faery Queene life is represented as a conflict in which the good are often hard pressed . Still , we are not troubled ; for the eternal forces are at work and the victory is ...
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... Child remarks that both envy and jealousy are here used in the sense of indignation . Fell means fierce . 9 Avise , consider . 10 Bylive , quickly . f 18 The whiles fair Britomart , whose constant mind BRITOMART . 11.
... Child remarks that both envy and jealousy are here used in the sense of indignation . Fell means fierce . 9 Avise , consider . 10 Bylive , quickly . f 18 The whiles fair Britomart , whose constant mind BRITOMART . 11.
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Edmund Spenser. f 18 The whiles fair Britomart , whose constant mind Would not so lightly follow beauty's chase , Ne recked of ladies ' love , did stay behind ; And them awaited there a certain space , To weet1 if they would turn back to ...
Edmund Spenser. f 18 The whiles fair Britomart , whose constant mind Would not so lightly follow beauty's chase , Ne recked of ladies ' love , did stay behind ; And them awaited there a certain space , To weet1 if they would turn back to ...
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adventure Amongst Amoret arms Artegall assay bade beauty Belphoebe Blandamour blood bold Book breast Britomart Briton brought Canto Certes Chrysaor cruel dame dear despite Dight dismayed doth dreadful Eftsoones Elfin knight English ensample faery knight Faery Queene fair Britomart fair ladies fairest false fear fell fiercely fight Florimell foul gentle Glaucè goodly Grantorto grief ground habergeon hand hard hath heart heaven Hight lady late light living loath Lord Lord Grey maid Maidenhead Merlin mighty mind mote nigh noble nought pain Paridell peril poet pow'r prince quoth Redcross Redcross knight rest revenge Satyrane Scudamour seemed shame shield sight sith soon sore sorrow spear Spenser sprite steed stout strange stroke Talus tell thee thereof therewith thou thought Triamond unto villeins warlike ween weet whenas whilom wight wist wonder wound wrath wreak wretched yield
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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.