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... downe they raughten . " And in the fame poem , 1218 . " Her haire downe to her heeles went . " Our author again expreffes himself in the fame manner , fpeaking of a robe , F. Q. v . v . 2 . " When the lift , it raught " Down to her ...
... downe they raughten . " And in the fame poem , 1218 . " Her haire downe to her heeles went . " Our author again expreffes himself in the fame manner , fpeaking of a robe , F. Q. v . v . 2 . " When the lift , it raught " Down to her ...
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... Downe to her foot with careleffe modeftee . Then of them all fhe plainly was espyde To be a woman - wight , unwist to bee , The fairest woman - wight that ever eie did fee . XXII . Like as Bellona ( being late returnd XXI . 3 . her well ...
... Downe to her foot with careleffe modeftee . Then of them all fhe plainly was espyde To be a woman - wight , unwist to bee , The fairest woman - wight that ever eie did fee . XXII . Like as Bellona ( being late returnd XXI . 3 . her well ...
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... downe tombled dedd From top of Hemus by him heaped hye ; ) Hath loofd her helmet from her lofty hedd , And her Gorgonian fhield gins to untye From her lefte arme , to reft in glorious victorye . XXIII . Which whenas they beheld , they ...
... downe tombled dedd From top of Hemus by him heaped hye ; ) Hath loofd her helmet from her lofty hedd , And her Gorgonian fhield gins to untye From her lefte arme , to reft in glorious victorye . XXIII . Which whenas they beheld , they ...
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... downe ! What ftony hart , that heares thy hapleffe fate , Is not empierft with deepe compaffiowne , And makes enfample of mans wretched ftate , That floures fo fresh at morne , and fades at evening late ! XL . " Behold , Sir , how your ...
... downe ! What ftony hart , that heares thy hapleffe fate , Is not empierft with deepe compaffiowne , And makes enfample of mans wretched ftate , That floures fo fresh at morne , and fades at evening late ! XL . " Behold , Sir , how your ...
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... downe , found it the fitteft foyle & c . Spenfer's editions , and that of 1751 , include not after reft between two commas ( as I have done ) and thereby perplex the text . CHURCH . Mr. Upton follows the original reading . Tonfon's ...
... downe , found it the fitteft foyle & c . Spenfer's editions , and that of 1751 , include not after reft between two commas ( as I have done ) and thereby perplex the text . CHURCH . Mr. Upton follows the original reading . Tonfon's ...
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againſt alfo Amoret Blandamour brigandines Britomart Canto Chaucer CHURCH cloſe cruell Dame deare defire doth dreadfull edition in 1758 edition reads eftfoones expreffion F. Q. iv Faerie Queene fafe faft faid faire faire Ladies falfe fame farre fayd feare fecond fecret feeke feem'd feems feene fhall fhew fide fight firft firſt flaine Florimell folios fome foone fore forrow ftill fuch fure goodly hart hath herfelfe hight himſelfe Hughes JORTIN Knight Ladies laft laſt leffe likewife Malbecco moft moſt mote nought obferved Ovid paffage paffing Paridell poet powre reft reſt Satyrane Scudamour ſeems ſhe ſhould Spenfer Spenfer's own edition Squire ſtill thefe themſelves thence theſe third folios thofe thoſe thou TODD Tonfon's edition Triamond ufed unto UPTON uſed vaine Venus viii Virgil WARTON weene weet whenas whofe wight wize wonne XXIII XXXII
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Page 276 - Right fit to rend the food on which he fared. His name was Care ; a blacksmith by his trade, That neither day nor night from working spared, But to small purpose yron wedges made ; Those be unquiet thoughts that...
Page 454 - Ouse came far from land, By many a city and by many a towne And many rivers taking under-hand Into his waters as he passeth downe, The Cle, the Were, the Grant, the Sture, the Rowne. Thence doth by Huntingdon and Cambridge flit, My mother Cambridge, whom as with a Crowne He doth adorne, and is adorn'd of it With many a gentle Muse and many a learned wit.
Page 406 - Thus having past all perill, I was come Within the compasse of that Islands space ; The which did seeme, unto my simple doome, The onely pleasant and delightfull place That ever troden was of footings trace : For all that nature by her mother-wit Could frame in earth, and forme of substance base, Was there ; and all that nature did omit, Art, playing second natures part, supplyed it.
Page 142 - For it of honor and all vertue is The roote, and brings forth glorious flowres of fame, That crowne true lovers with immortall blis, The meed of them that love, and do not live amisse.
Page 159 - And loathly mouth, unmeete a mouth to bee, That nought but gall and venim comprehended, And wicked wordes that God and man offended. Her lying tongue was in two parts divided, And both the parts did speake, and both contended ; And as her tongue so was her hart discided, That never thoght one thing, but doubly stil was guided.
Page 46 - tis but two singles on the left, two on the right, three doublest forward, a traverse of six round : do this twice, three singles side, galliard trick of twenty, coranto pace ; a figure of eight, three singles broken down, come up, meet two doubles, fall back, and then honour.
Page 17 - On the proud crest of Satan, that no sight, Nor motion of swift thought, less could his shield, Such ruin intercept : Ten paces huge He back...
Page 409 - And therein thousand payres of lovers walkt, Praysing their god, and yeelding him great thankes, Ne ever ought but of their true loves talkt, Ne ever for rebuke or blame of any balkt.
Page 329 - Majestic fixed upon him, as she was wont to doe, and to daunt men she knew not, stirred the blood of the young gentleman, insomuch as his colour went and came, which the...
Page 398 - Although the Roman or Grecian architecture did not begin to prevail in England till the time of Inigo Jones; yet our communication with the Italians, and our imitation of their manners, produced fome fpecimens of that ftylc much earlier.