Complete Works of Edmund SpenserMacmillan, 1869 - 736 páginas |
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... light . THE LIFE OF SPENSER is wrapt in a similar obscurity to that which hides from us his great predecessor Chaucer , and his still greater contemporary Shakspere . As in the case of Chaucer , our principal external authorities are a ...
... light . THE LIFE OF SPENSER is wrapt in a similar obscurity to that which hides from us his great predecessor Chaucer , and his still greater contemporary Shakspere . As in the case of Chaucer , our principal external authorities are a ...
Página xlix
... lights in light excell ; So farre doth she in beautyfull array Above all other lasses beare the bell ; Ne less in vertue that beseems her well Doth she exceede the rest of all her race . The phrase ' country lass ' in this rapturous ...
... lights in light excell ; So farre doth she in beautyfull array Above all other lasses beare the bell ; Ne less in vertue that beseems her well Doth she exceede the rest of all her race . The phrase ' country lass ' in this rapturous ...
Página liii
... light of it , as showing This the sensitive purity of the poet's nature . It is difficult to conceive how those ' former hymns ' should in any moral respect need amending . The moralising and corrective purpose with which the two latter ...
... light of it , as showing This the sensitive purity of the poet's nature . It is difficult to conceive how those ' former hymns ' should in any moral respect need amending . The moralising and corrective purpose with which the two latter ...
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... Light TO THE READER , FOR THE BETTER UNDERSTANDING IS HEREUNTO ANNEXED . TO THE RIGHT NOBLE AND VALOROUS SIR WALTER RALEIGH , KNIGHT , LORD ' WARDEIN OF THE STANNERYES , AND HER MAIESTIES LIEFETENAUNT OF THE COUNTY OF CORNEWAYLL . 4 ...
... Light TO THE READER , FOR THE BETTER UNDERSTANDING IS HEREUNTO ANNEXED . TO THE RIGHT NOBLE AND VALOROUS SIR WALTER RALEIGH , KNIGHT , LORD ' WARDEIN OF THE STANNERYES , AND HER MAIESTIES LIEFETENAUNT OF THE COUNTY OF CORNEWAYLL . 4 ...
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... light through darknesse The stroke down from her head unto her shoul- for to wade . ' XIII ' Yea but ' ( quoth she ) ' the perill of this place I better wot then you : though nowe too late To wish you backe returne with foule disgrace ...
... light through darknesse The stroke down from her head unto her shoul- for to wade . ' XIII ' Yea but ' ( quoth she ) ' the perill of this place I better wot then you : though nowe too late To wish you backe returne with foule disgrace ...
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Página 589 - Almighties view; Of her ye virgins learne obedience, When so ye come into those holy places, To humble your proud faces: Bring her up to th...
Página 590 - And in thy sable mantle us enwrap, From feare of perrill and foule horror free. Let no false treason seeke us to entrap. Nor any dread disquiet once annoy The safety of our joy : But let the night be calme, and quietsome, Without tempestuous storms or sad afray: Lyke as when Jove with fayre Alcmena lay, When he begot the great Tirynthian groome ; Or lyke as when he with thy selfe did lie And begot Majesty.
Página xiv - I was promis'd on a time, To have reason for my rhyme ; From that time unto this season, I receiv'd nor rhyme nor reason." Hereupon the queen gave strict order (not without some check to her treasurer) for the present payment of the hundred pounds she first intended unto him.
Página 589 - Open the temple gates unto my love, Open them wide that she may enter in, And all the...
Página 152 - To th' instruments divine respondence meet ; The silver sounding instruments did meet With the base murmure of the waters fall ; The waters fall with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call ; The gentle warbling wind low answered to all.
Página 588 - Phoebus gins to shew his glorious hed. Hark how the cheerefull birds do chaunt theyr laies, And carroll of loves praise! The merry larke hir mattins sings aloft, The thrush replyes, the mavis descant playes, The ouzell shrills, the ruddock warbles soft, So goodly all agree, with sweet consent, To this dayes merriment. Ah! my deere love, why doe ye sleepe thus long, When meeter were that ye should now awake, T' awayt the comming of your joyous make, And hearken to the birds love-learned song, The...
Página 554 - Ne lesse praisworthie are the sisters three, The honor of the noble familie : Of which I meanest boast my selfe to be, And most that unto them I am so nie : Phyllis, Charillis, and sweet Amaryllis. Phyllis, the foire, is eldest of the three : The next to her is bountifull Charillis : But th' youngest is the highest in degree.
Página 589 - There dwels sweet love, and constant chastity, Unspotted fayth, and comely womanhood, Regard of honour, and mild modesty ; There vertue raynes as Queene in royal throne, And giveth lawes alone, The which the base affections doe obay, And yeeld theyr services unto her will ; Ne thought of thing uncomely ever may Thereto approch to tempt her mind to ill. Had ye once scene these her celestial threasures, And unrevealed pleasures, Then would ye wonder, and her prayses sing, That al the woods should answer,...
Página 22 - Though nor in word nor deede ill meriting, Is from her Knight divorced in despayre, And her dew loves deryv'd to that vile Witches shayre.
Página 602 - Thou must him love, and his beheasts embrace ; All other loves, with which the world doth blind Weake fancies, and stirre up affections base, Thou must renounce and utterly displace, And give thy selfe unto him full and free, That full and freely gave himselfe to thee.