The Works of Edmund SpenserRoutledge, 1872 - 562 páginas |
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Edmund Spenser. the expression of the author , evidently pretend ; as does the wretched couplet immediately following : " That which I eate , did I ioy , and that which I greedily gorged ; " As for those many goodly matters leaft I for ...
Edmund Spenser. the expression of the author , evidently pretend ; as does the wretched couplet immediately following : " That which I eate , did I ioy , and that which I greedily gorged ; " As for those many goodly matters leaft I for ...
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... wretched condition , amid the desolations of the rebellion in Munster ; as appears from the following curious anecdote in Drummond , who has left us the heads of a conversation between himself and Ben Jonson . dB . Jonson told me that ...
... wretched condition , amid the desolations of the rebellion in Munster ; as appears from the following curious anecdote in Drummond , who has left us the heads of a conversation between himself and Ben Jonson . dB . Jonson told me that ...
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... wretched state , You , whom my hard avenging destinie Hath made iudge of my life or death indifferently : L.II. " Your owne deare sake forst me at first to leave My fathers kingdom " -There she stopt with teares ; Her swollen hart her ...
... wretched state , You , whom my hard avenging destinie Hath made iudge of my life or death indifferently : L.II. " Your owne deare sake forst me at first to leave My fathers kingdom " -There she stopt with teares ; Her swollen hart her ...
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... wretched woman , whom unhappy howre Hath now made thrall to your commandement , Before that angry heavens lift to lowre , And fortune false betraide me to your powre , Was , ( O what now availeth that I was ! ) Borne the sole daughter ...
... wretched woman , whom unhappy howre Hath now made thrall to your commandement , Before that angry heavens lift to lowre , And fortune false betraide me to your powre , Was , ( O what now availeth that I was ! ) Borne the sole daughter ...
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... Wretched man , wretched tree ! whose nature weake A cruell Witch , her cursed will to wreake , Hath thus transformd , and plast in open plaines , Where Boreas doth blow - full bitter bleake , And scorching sunne does dry my secret ...
... Wretched man , wretched tree ! whose nature weake A cruell Witch , her cursed will to wreake , Hath thus transformd , and plast in open plaines , Where Boreas doth blow - full bitter bleake , And scorching sunne does dry my secret ...
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Página 12 - Then choosing out few words most horrible, (Let none them read) thereof did verses frame; With which, and other spelles like terrible, He bad awake blacke Plutoes griesly Dame; And cursed heven; and spake reprochful shame Of highest God, the Lord of life and light: A bold bad man, that dar'd to call by name Great Gorgon, prince of darknes and dead night; At which Cocytus quakes, and Styx is put to flight.
Página 49 - Or from the field most cowardly doth fly ? Ne let the man ascribe it to his skill, That thorough grace hath gained victory. If any strength we have, it is to ill, But all the good is Gods, both power and eke will.
Página 466 - As each had bene a Bryde ; And each one had a little wicker basket, Made of fine twigs, entrayled curiously, In which they gathered flowers to fill their flasket, And with fine Fingers crept full feateously The tender stalkes on hye.
Página 11 - At length they chaunst to meet upon the way An aged sire, in long blacke weedes yclad, His feete all bare, his beard all hoarie gray, And by his belt his booke he hanging had ; Sober he seemde, and very sagely sad ; And to the ground...
Página 18 - 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...
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