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Page xi
... passing courtier , the willing cynosure of admiring eyes , fantastically arrayed as a Spanish grandee or as a French beau of the period . The plays given in the court - yards of the inns are sure to have aroused Spenser's enthusiasm ...
... passing courtier , the willing cynosure of admiring eyes , fantastically arrayed as a Spanish grandee or as a French beau of the period . The plays given in the court - yards of the inns are sure to have aroused Spenser's enthusiasm ...
Page xxi
... passes away , and we find ourselves in a new world where we gladly linger , charmed and detained by the long swell of the Spenserian stanza . Lowell has called this world , " the land of pure heart's ease , where no ache or sorrow of ...
... passes away , and we find ourselves in a new world where we gladly linger , charmed and detained by the long swell of the Spenserian stanza . Lowell has called this world , " the land of pure heart's ease , where no ache or sorrow of ...
Page xxiii
... passing beauty and possesses some interest as a narra- tive . In both these books , however , the characters are abstractions . The third book , " containing the Legend , of Britomartis , or of Chastity , " introduces a clearly defined ...
... passing beauty and possesses some interest as a narra- tive . In both these books , however , the characters are abstractions . The third book , " containing the Legend , of Britomartis , or of Chastity , " introduces a clearly defined ...
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... passes on to Castle Joyous where she falls in with the Redcross knight . I THE famous Briton prince1 and faery knight , 2 After long ways and perilous pains endured , Having their weary limbs to perfect plight Restored , and sorry ...
... passes on to Castle Joyous where she falls in with the Redcross knight . I THE famous Briton prince1 and faery knight , 2 After long ways and perilous pains endured , Having their weary limbs to perfect plight Restored , and sorry ...
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... passing to behold . 15 Still as she fled her eye she backward threw , As fearing evil that pursued her fast ; And her fair yellow locks behind her flew , Loosely dispersed with puff of every blast : All as a blazing star doth far ...
... passing to behold . 15 Still as she fled her eye she backward threw , As fearing evil that pursued her fast ; And her fair yellow locks behind her flew , Loosely dispersed with puff of every blast : All as a blazing star doth far ...
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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.