 | Edmund Spenser - 1843 - 388 pages
...xii.severall adventures hapned, which, being undertaken by xii. severall knights, are in these xii. books severally handled and discoursed. The first...this. In the beginning of the feast, there presented himselfe a tuli clownishe young man, who falling before the Queene of Faeries desired a boone (as the... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer, Charles Dunham Deshler - 1847 - 736 pages
...Coleridge. twelve days ; upon which twelve several days the occasions of the twelve several adventures happened ; which, being undertaken by twelve several knights, are in these twelve books handled and discoursed."* Thus, of the three first books, the first contains the adventures of the... | |
 | Edmund Spenser, Caroline Matilda Kirkland - English poetry - 1847 - 272 pages
...Coleridge. twelve days ; upon which twelve several days the occasions of the twelve several adventures happened ; which, being undertaken by twelve several knights, are in these twelve books handled and discoursed."* Thus, of the three first books, the first contains the adventures of the... | |
 | Edmund Spenser, Caroline Matilda Kirkland - English poetry - 1847 - 266 pages
...Coleridge. twelve days ; upon which twelve several days the occasions of the twelve several adventures happened ; which, being undertaken by twelve several knights, are in these twelve books handled and discoursed."* Thus, of the three first books, the first contains the adventures of the... | |
 | Edmund Spenser, Henry John Todd - 1845 - 654 pages
...Aduentures hapned, which, being undertaken by xii. seuerall Knights, are in these xii. Books seuerally handled and discoursed. The first was this. In the beginning of the feast, there presented himselfe a tall clownishe younge man, who falling before the Queene of Faries desired a boonc (as the... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1857 - 600 pages
...xii. several! adventures banned, which, being undertaken by xii. severall knights, are in these xii. books severally handled and discoursed. The first...this. In the beginning of the feast, there presented himselfe a tall clownisbe young mun, who falling before the Queene of Faeries desired a boone (as the... | |
 | Edmund Spenser, George Gilfillan - 1859 - 332 pages
...xii. several adventures happened, which, being undertaken by xii. several knights, are in these xii. books severally handled and discoursed. The first...a tall clownish young man, who, falling before the Queene of Faeries, desired a boon (as the manner then was) which during that feast she might not refuse... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1863 - 660 pages
...thee gave to name." Book icx The Fairy Queen kept her annual feast twelve days. On the first day, " in the beginning of the feast, there presented himself...clownish young man, who, falling before the Queen of Fairies, desired a boon." ..." That being granted, he rested him on the floor ; unfit, through his... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1867 - 284 pages
...xii. severall adventures hapned, which, being undertaken by xii. severall knights, are in these xii. books severally handled and discoursed. The first...this. In the beginning of the feast, there presented him selfe a tall clownishe younge man, who fall''"" before the Queene of Faeries desired a boone (as... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1867 - 304 pages
...xii. severall adventures hapned, which, being undertaken by xii. severall knights, are in these xii. books severally handled and discoursed. The first...this. In the beginning of the feast, there presented him selfe a tall clownishe younge man, who falling before the Queene of Faeries desired a boone (as... | |
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... by an Historiographer should be the twelfth booke, which is the last; where I devise that the Faery Queene kept her Annuall feaste xii. 
