Book I of The Faery QueeneClarendon Press, 1869 - 251 páginas |
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Página ix
... probably perished in the fire . Spenser reached England broken - hearted , and next January , some three months later , his body rested by Chaucer's side in the south transept of Westminster Abbey m . So his life withered away ; he died ...
... probably perished in the fire . Spenser reached England broken - hearted , and next January , some three months later , his body rested by Chaucer's side in the south transept of Westminster Abbey m . So his life withered away ; he died ...
Página xv
... probably intended Philip II , King of Spain ; Prince Arthur is Lord Leicester 9. No doubt other names have their own mean- ings ; but these are all as to which we can feel any certainty , and conjecture is useless . Indeed those ...
... probably intended Philip II , King of Spain ; Prince Arthur is Lord Leicester 9. No doubt other names have their own mean- ings ; but these are all as to which we can feel any certainty , and conjecture is useless . Indeed those ...
Página xvii
... probably owe the indifference to Spenser which has since prevailed . A few examples will suffice to shew the sort of archaism to be met with in the Faery Queene . In constructions , we may mention the use of the impersonal verb without ...
... probably owe the indifference to Spenser which has since prevailed . A few examples will suffice to shew the sort of archaism to be met with in the Faery Queene . In constructions , we may mention the use of the impersonal verb without ...
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... arre . the doors in probably intended to represent common sense , or ww- Rumble life ... the forth prudences of 1 Spenser shadows dangers surr спи- sounding the mins theat and ales th escaped from the Bondage z Romerili in a ...
... arre . the doors in probably intended to represent common sense , or ww- Rumble life ... the forth prudences of 1 Spenser shadows dangers surr спи- sounding the mins theat and ales th escaped from the Bondage z Romerili in a ...
Página 166
... probably the real origin of the phrase . = 17 , 1. the valiant Elfe ; -the Knight is described as coming from Faerie Land , c . x . 60 , 61. The word elfe ' is A. S. alf , an elf . The A. S. had Dun - alfen = mountain ( or down ) fairy ...
... probably the real origin of the phrase . = 17 , 1. the valiant Elfe ; -the Knight is described as coming from Faerie Land , c . x . 60 , 61. The word elfe ' is A. S. alf , an elf . The A. S. had Dun - alfen = mountain ( or down ) fairy ...
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Archimago Ariosto armes armour beast blood bloud brest CANTO Chaucer cloth College cruell dame dead deadly deare death doth dragon dread dreadfull Du Cange Edition elfin knight English eternall eyes Faery Queene faire fall fast fcap feare fell fierce fight gentle Gloss goodly Goth grace griefe groning hand hart hath heaven heavenly hight house of Pride Icel king lady Latin light Lord Lord Leicester mighty never nigh nought Oriel College Oxford paine Paynim phrase poets powre pret pride Prince Arthur proud quoth rage Red Cross Red Cross Knight says seemd seems selfe sense Shepheards Calender shew shield shyning sight sonne sore sorrow Spenser spide stanza subst Tale thee thence thou tree truth unto vaine verb viii wandring weary weene whence wondrous wont word wound wyde yron
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Página 10 - 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 his eyes were lowly bent, Simple in shew, and voide of malice bad, And all the way he prayed, as he went, And often knockt his brest, as one that did repent.
Página 69 - And oft, for dread of hurt, would him advise The angry beastes not rashly to despise, Nor too much to provoke ; for he would learne The Lyon stoup to him in lowly wise, (A lesson hard) and make the Libbard sterne Leave roaring, when in rage he for revenge did earne.
Página 4 - Behind her farre away a Dwarfe did lag, That lasie seemd, in being ever last, Or wearied with bearing of her bag Of needments at his backe.
Página 168 - Abhorred Styx, the flood of deadly hate; Sad Acheron, of sorrow, black and deep; Cocytus, named of lamentation loud Heard on the rueful stream; fierce Phlegethon, Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage.
Página 3 - Crosse he bore, The deare remembrance of his dying Lord, For whose sweete sake that glorious badge he wore, And dead, as living, ever him ador'd : Upon his shield the like was also scor'd, For soveraine hope which in his helpe he had. Right faithfull true he was in deede and word, But of his cheere did seeme too solemne sad; Yet nothing did he dread, but ever was ydrad.
Página 152 - The blazing brightnesse of her beauties beame, And glorious light of her sunshyny face, To tell, were as to strive against the streame: My ragged rimes are all too rude and bace Her heavenly lineaments for to enchace. Ne wonder; for her own deare loved knight, All were she dayly with himselfe in place, Did wonder much at her celestial! sight: Oft had he seene her faire, but never so faire dight.
Página 8 - Her vomit full of bookes and papers was, With loathly frogs and toades, which eyes did lacke, And creeping sought way in the weedy gras : Her filthie parbreake all the place defiled has.
Página 114 - Come, come away, fraile, feeble, fleshly wight, Ne let vaine words bewitch thy manly hart) Ne divelish thoughts dismay thy constant spright. In heavenly mercies hast thou not a part ? Why shouldst thou then despeire, that chosen art?
Página 11 - A little lowly Hermitage it was, Downe in a dale, hard by a forests side, Far from resort of people, that did pas In...
Página 3 - To prove his puissance in battell brave Upon his foe, and his new force to learne; Upon his foe, a Dragon horrible and stearne.