 Ay me, how many perils doe enfold The righteous man, to make him daily fall? Were not, that heavenly grace doth him uphold, And stedfast truth acquite him out of all.  The Fairy Queen - Page 107by Edmund Spenser - 1758Full view - About this book
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - English poetry - 1915 - 952 pages
...elayes the gyaunt, wounds the beast, Awl •trip* Dueaaa quight. AT mo! how many perils doe enfold Tie perpetual storms Of whirlwind stedfast Truth acquite him out of all ! Her love is finne, her care continuall, Sj nit as he, through... | |
 | University of Calcutta. Department of Letters - Buddha (The concept) - 1920 - 462 pages
...defeated and imprisoned by Orgoglio, Una effects his rescue through Arthur. " Ay me ! how many perils doe enfold The righteous man, to make him daily fall, Were not that heavenly grace doth him uphold, And stedfast fiulh acquite him out of all." (C. VIII.— I.) Again, when Redcrosse is bent on committing... | |
 | University of Calcutta. Department of Letters - Buddha (The concept) - 1920 - 458 pages
...defeated and imprisoned by Orgoglio, Una effects his rescue through Arthur. " Ay me ! how many perils doe enfold The righteous man, to make him daily fall, Were not that heavenly grace doth him uphold, And stedfast ttnlh acquite him out of all." (C. VIII.— I.) Again, when Redcrosse is bent on committing... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1921 - 826 pages
...fight : Who slayes the Gyant, wounds the beast, and strips Duessa quight. Ay me, how many perils doe enfold The righteous man, to make him daily fall ? Were not , that heauenly grace doth him vphold, And stedfast truth acquite him out of all. Her loue is firme, her care... | |
 | S. L. Greenslade - Religion - 1975 - 660 pages
...Saint Paul v. Ephes.', and Una must bring divine aid to him in the person of Ay me, how many perils doe enfold The righteous man, to make him daily fall? Were not, that heavenly grace doth him uphold, And stedfast truth acquite him out of all. Pride thus defeated, the knight must be taken for rest, instruction... | |
 | C. S. Lewis - Literary Criticism - 1967 - 164 pages
...him. And at one point she is associated very closely with divine Grace: Ay me, how many perils doe enfold The righteous man, to make him daily fall? Were not, that heavenly grace doth him uphold, And stedfast truth acquire him out of all. Her love is firme, her care continuall, So oft as he through... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 268 pages
...homely proverbial: A dram of sweet is worth a pound of sour. There is the moralizing, religious note: Ay me, how many perils do enfold The righteous man,...Were not, that heavenly grace doth him uphold, And steadfast truth acquit him out of all. There is the poetic-proverbial (but it is worth remembering... | |
 | Herbert Lockyer - Religion - 1964 - 324 pages
...20:11-15). Edmund Spenser has given us these lines in Old English— Her gracious, graceful, gracious Grace, Ay me, how many perils do enfold The righteous man,...Were not that heavenly grace doth him uphold, And stedfast Truth acquite him out of all. Magnificent in Its Simplicity and Sufficiency. What grandeur,... | |
 | Alan Lupack - Literary Collections - 1992 - 512 pages
...fight: Who slayes the gyant, wounds the beast, and strips Duessa quighL Ay me, how many perils doe enfold The righteous man, to make him daily fall? Were not, that heavenly grace doth him uphold, And stedfast truth acquite him out of all. Her love is firme, her care continuall, So oft as he through... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - Poetry - 1999 - 240 pages
...the Gyant, wounds the beast, and strips Duessa quight. 1 Aye me, how many perils do enfold" surround The righteous man, to make him daily fall? Were not, that heavenly grace doth him uphold, And steadfast truth acquite" him out of all. rescue Her love is firm, her care continual, So oft as he... | |
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