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... These three fifters are mentioned by our poet in other paffages : Elizabeth is the Lady to whom he wrote the Sonnet prefixed to the Fairy Queen , addrefling it To the most vertuous and beautiful Lady , The Lady Carew : and to whom ...
... These three fifters are mentioned by our poet in other paffages : Elizabeth is the Lady to whom he wrote the Sonnet prefixed to the Fairy Queen , addrefling it To the most vertuous and beautiful Lady , The Lady Carew : and to whom ...
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... a anagram of Bishop Elmer ; fays the Gloffary to the Edition of 1679. These were thofe former writs that brought him " into a mighty Peer's VOL . I. " dif C Grindal : which was not altogether fo well received , PREFACE . xvii.
... a anagram of Bishop Elmer ; fays the Gloffary to the Edition of 1679. These were thofe former writs that brought him " into a mighty Peer's VOL . I. " dif C Grindal : which was not altogether fo well received , PREFACE . xvii.
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... These reasons well weighed , I think the wonder is , that not only he got no preferment in England , but that he should be able to obtain from the Queen a grant of any of the * forfeited lands in Ireland . Spenfer was appointed ...
... These reasons well weighed , I think the wonder is , that not only he got no preferment in England , but that he should be able to obtain from the Queen a grant of any of the * forfeited lands in Ireland . Spenfer was appointed ...
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... these periods an hiftorian might begin his narration ; but a poet muft begin from neither : becaufe ' tis his province to carry you at once into the fcene of action ; and to complicate and perplex his story , in order to fhew his art in ...
... these periods an hiftorian might begin his narration ; but a poet muft begin from neither : becaufe ' tis his province to carry you at once into the fcene of action ; and to complicate and perplex his story , in order to fhew his art in ...
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... these marvellous tales ; what fhould hinder the poet , but want of art , from so contriving his fable , that more might be meant , than meets the eye or ear ? cannot he fay one thing in proper numbers and harmony , and yet fecretly ...
... these marvellous tales ; what fhould hinder the poet , but want of art , from so contriving his fable , that more might be meant , than meets the eye or ear ? cannot he fay one thing in proper numbers and harmony , and yet fecretly ...
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Spenser's Faerie Queene: A Poem in Six Books; with the Fragment ..., Volume 1 Edmund Spenser Visualização completa - 1897 |
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Página 429 - ... quight: And their great mother Venus did lament The losse of her deare brood, her deare delight: Her hart was pierst with pitty at the sight, When walking through the Gardin them she spyde, Yet no'te...
Página 120 - Or from the fielde 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 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 2 - A GENTLE Knight was pricking on the plaine, Ycladd in mightie armes and silver shielde, Wherein old dints of deepe woundes did remaine, The cruell markes of many a bloody fielde ; Yet armes till that time did he never wield : His angry steede did chide his foming bitt, As much disdayning to the curbe to yield : Full jolly knight he seemd, and faire did sitt, As one for knightly giusts and fierce encounters fitt.
Página 9 - Tasso dissevered them againe, and formed both parts in two persons, namely that part which they in Philosophy call Ethice, or vertues of a private man, coloured in his Rinaldo; the other named Politice in his Godfredo.
Página 93 - AT 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.
Página 659 - Ouse came far from land, By many a city and by many a towne And many rivers taking under-hand Into his waters as he passeth downe, The Cle, the Were, the Grant, the Sture, the Rowne. Thence doth by Huntingdon and Cambridge flit, My mother Cambridge, whom as with a Crowne He doth adorne, and is adorn'd of it With many a gentle Muse and many a learned wit.
Página 114 - And all about old stockes and stubs of trees, Whereon nor fruit nor leafe was ever...
Página 30 - With gaping mouth at her ran greedily, To have attonce devourd her tender corse ; But to the pray when as he drew more ny, His bloody rage aswaged with remorse, And, with the sight amazd, forgat his furious forse. In stead thereof he kist her wearie feet, And lickt her lilly hands with fawning tong, As he her wronged innocence did weet.
Página 9 - I labour to pourtraict in Arthure, before he was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected in the twelve private morall vertues, as Aristotle hath devised, the which is the purpose of these first twelve...