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... seek to know the causes that led to the unparalleled literary activity of the Elizabethan Age . - During the century that preceded the birth of Spen- ser , great events followed one another in quick succes- sion in 1453 Constantinople ...
... seek to know the causes that led to the unparalleled literary activity of the Elizabethan Age . - During the century that preceded the birth of Spen- ser , great events followed one another in quick succes- sion in 1453 Constantinople ...
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... seeking expression in his writings . Perhaps , however , the most admirable trait that has been preserved for us is his chivalric constancy in friendship . Living as he did in an age of patronage , an age in which the struggling genius ...
... seeking expression in his writings . Perhaps , however , the most admirable trait that has been preserved for us is his chivalric constancy in friendship . Living as he did in an age of patronage , an age in which the struggling genius ...
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... confusing the account of their adven- tures . Of course the careful student of Spenser will read the entire Faery Queene , will trace the underlying ! allegories , will seek the sources from which the poet INTRODUCTION . xxiii.
... confusing the account of their adven- tures . Of course the careful student of Spenser will read the entire Faery Queene , will trace the underlying ! allegories , will seek the sources from which the poet INTRODUCTION . xxiii.
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Edmund Spenser. allegories , will seek the sources from which the poet derived many of his ideas and images , and will look up allusions to the events and the personages of the time . The general student of English literature , however ...
Edmund Spenser. allegories , will seek the sources from which the poet derived many of his ideas and images , and will look up allusions to the events and the personages of the time . The general student of English literature , however ...
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... seek her out and so , being by Merlin armed , and by Timon throughly instructed , he went to seeke her forth in Faery land . In that Faery Queene I mean Glory in my generall intention : but in my particular I con- ceive the most ...
... seek her out and so , being by Merlin armed , and by Timon throughly instructed , he went to seeke her forth in Faery land . In that Faery Queene I mean Glory in my generall intention : but in my particular I con- ceive the most ...
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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.