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... castle , the rebels destroyed it by fire , and the child perished in the flames . Spenser fled to England , but his heart was broken , and he expired on the six- teenth of the following January . He died in King- XX THE LIFE OF SPENSER .
... castle , the rebels destroyed it by fire , and the child perished in the flames . Spenser fled to England , but his heart was broken , and he expired on the six- teenth of the following January . He died in King- XX THE LIFE OF SPENSER .
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... King- street , Westminster , and was buried in Westminster Abbey , at the charge of the earl of Essex . Thirty years after his decease , a monument was erected to his memory by Anne , countess of Dorset * . It has been imagined that ...
... King- street , Westminster , and was buried in Westminster Abbey , at the charge of the earl of Essex . Thirty years after his decease , a monument was erected to his memory by Anne , countess of Dorset * . It has been imagined that ...
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... King Arthure , as most fitte for the excellency of his person , being made famous by many mens former workes , and also A Letter of the Author's, to Sir Walter Raleigh, pounding his whole intention in the course of worke.
... King Arthure , as most fitte for the excellency of his person , being made famous by many mens former workes , and also A Letter of the Author's, to Sir Walter Raleigh, pounding his whole intention in the course of worke.
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... king , the image of a braue Knight , perfected in the twelue priuate Morall Vertues , as Aristotle hath deuised ; the which is the purpose of these first twelue bookes ; which if I finde to be well accepted , I may be perhaps encoraged ...
... king , the image of a braue Knight , perfected in the twelue priuate Morall Vertues , as Aristotle hath deuised ; the which is the purpose of these first twelue bookes ; which if I finde to be well accepted , I may be perhaps encoraged ...
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... King and Queene , had bene by an huge Dragon many years shut up in a brasen castle , who thence suffred them not to yssew : and therefore besought the Faerie Queene to assygne her some one of her Knights to take on him that exployt ...
... King and Queene , had bene by an huge Dragon many years shut up in a brasen castle , who thence suffred them not to yssew : and therefore besought the Faerie Queene to assygne her some one of her Knights to take on him that exployt ...
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adamant rocke Archimago armes Beast behold blood brest Britomartis CANTO chaunce chaunst corage corse courser cruell Dame deadly deare death devize dismaid dore doth dread dreadfull Duessa EDMUND SPENSER Elfin Knight Enchaunter enimy eternall evermore eyes Faery Knight Faery Queene faire faire Lady false Duessa fast fayre feare feeble flowre fowle gentle goodly grace griefe grone Gyaunt hand hart hast hath heaven heavenly hight himselfe ioyous Lady light living wight Lord mightie Muse never nigh noble nought Paynim poet powre pray Prince proud quake quight quoth rage Redcrosse Knight Sansfoy seemd selfe sence Shee shew shield shyne sight Sith sonne sore sownd speach Spenser spide spright staind steed straunge suddein sunne sweet syre thee thou traveiled trew unto vaine vertues Virgin wandring wearie weene whenas wondrous wonne wont wound wrath wretched wyde yron
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Page 29 - A GENTLE Knight was pricking on the plaine, Ycladd in mightie armes and silver shielde, Wherein old dints of deepe woundes did remaine, The cruell markes of many a bloody fielde ; Yet armes till that time did he never wield : His angry steede did chide his foming bitt, As much disdayning to the curbe to yield : Full jolly knight he seemd, and faire did sitt, As one for knightly giusts and fierce encounters fitt.
Page 4 - 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 3 - The generall end therefore of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline...
Page 65 - One day, nigh wearie of the yrkesome way, From her unhastie beast she did alight; And on the grasse her dainty limbs did lay In...
Page 184 - Come, come away, fraile, feeble, fleshly wight, Ne let vaine words bewitch thy manly hart, Ne divelish thoughts dismay thy constant spright : In heavenly mercies hast thou not a part ? Why shouldst thou then despeire, that chosen art...
Page 51 - He then devisde himselfe how to disguise; For by his mighty science he could take As many formes and shapes in seeming wise, As ever Proteus to himselfe could make: Sometime a fowle, sometime a fish in lake, Now like a foxe, now like a dragon fell; That of himselfe he ofte for feare would quake, And oft would flie away.
Page 190 - She was araied all in lilly white, And in her right hand bore a cup of gold, With wine and water fild up to the hight, In which a Serpent did himselfe enfold, That horrour made to all that did behold ; But she no...
Page 30 - To prove his puissance in battell brave Upon his foe, and his new force to learne; Upon his foe, a Dragon horrible and stearne.
Page 40 - Sir knight, ye have advised bin, (Quoth then that aged man) the way to win Is wisely to advise: now day is spent; Therefore with me ye may take up your in For this same night.
Page 66 - O how can beautie maister the most strong, And simple truth subdue avenging wrong! Whose yielded...