The Faerie Queene: Book I, Volume 1Macmillan, 1893 - 342 páginas |
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Aeneid allegory Archimago Ariosto armes Arthur Ayenbite of Inwyt beast beauty Ben Jonson Bevis of Hampton blood brest called CANTO Castle Chaucer chivalry Christian Church cruell Dame deadly deare death doen doth dragon dread Duessa earth Elfin knight Euphuism eyes Faerie Queene faire Fairfax's Tasso faith false fayre feare fight Fletcher Germ goodly griefe hand hart hath heaven heavenly hence Hesiod hight Holiness Holinshed Homer Iliad Jonson king Lady Latin light literally living Lord Low Lat meaning Milton Morte d'Arthur never nigh nought occurs Ovid Pagan Parv Piers Plowman powre pride Prince quoth Redcross Redcross Knight romance Sansfoy Scotch seemd seems sense Shakspere Shep shield sight Spenser stanza substantive Tale thee thou tree Truth Una's unto v.n. ii v.n. vii v.n. xi verb viii Virgil virtues wandring whence wight word wound wyde yron
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Página 260 - And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth : and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
Página 296 - Whereupon, neither the first testament was dedicated without blood : for when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people, saying, This is the blood of the testament, which God hath enjoined unto you.
Página 320 - And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space. 11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
Página 166 - Virtue could see to do what Virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk.
Página 260 - And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion; and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
Página 11 - Which from a sacred fountaine welled forth alway. 35 Arrived there, the little house they fill, Ne looke for entertainement, where none was: Rest is their feast, and all thinges at their will; The noblest mind the best contentment has. With faire discourse the evening so they pas : For that olde man of pleasing wordes had store, And well could file his tongue as smooth as glas, He told of Saintes and Popes, and evermore He strowd an Ave-Mary after and before.
Página 306 - And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God...
Página 185 - And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls...
Página 202 - In hurdled cotes amid the field secure, Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold : Or as a thief bent to unhoard the cash Of some rich burgher, whose substantial doors...