The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: With the Life of the Author and the Critical Remarks of Hughes, Spence, Warton, Upton, and Hurd, 7–8. köideCadell and Davies ... and Samuel Bagster, 1807 |
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... happie Hobbinoll ! I blesse thy state , That Paradise hast founde which Adam lost : 10 Here wander may thy flocke earely or late , Withouten dread of wolves to bene ytost ; Thy lovely layes here maist thou freely boste : But I ...
... happie Hobbinoll ! I blesse thy state , That Paradise hast founde which Adam lost : 10 Here wander may thy flocke earely or late , Withouten dread of wolves to bene ytost ; Thy lovely layes here maist thou freely boste : But I ...
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... happie which can ; so ab- ruptly ending ; but hee meaneth eyther him , that can win the best , or moderate himselfe being best , and leave off with the best . SEPTEMBER . AEGLOGA NONA . Argument , HEREIN Diggon Davie 3 AUGUST . 117.
... happie which can ; so ab- ruptly ending ; but hee meaneth eyther him , that can win the best , or moderate himselfe being best , and leave off with the best . SEPTEMBER . AEGLOGA NONA . Argument , HEREIN Diggon Davie 3 AUGUST . 117.
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... happie herse ! 170 Cease now , my Muse , nowcease thy sorrowes sourse , O joyfull verse ! Why waile we then ? why wearie we the gods with plaintes , 174 ' As if some evill were to her betight ? ' She raignes a goddesse now emong the ...
... happie herse ! 170 Cease now , my Muse , nowcease thy sorrowes sourse , O joyfull verse ! Why waile we then ? why wearie we the gods with plaintes , 174 ' As if some evill were to her betight ? ' She raignes a goddesse now emong the ...
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... happie herse ! 190 ‹ Make haste , yee shepheards ! thether to revert . O ioyfull verse ! Dido is gone afore ; ( whose turne shall be the next ? ) There lives shee with the blessed gods in blisse , · There drincks she nectar with ...
... happie herse ! 190 ‹ Make haste , yee shepheards ! thether to revert . O ioyfull verse ! Dido is gone afore ; ( whose turne shall be the next ? ) There lives shee with the blessed gods in blisse , · There drincks she nectar with ...
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... happie soules do rest in peace and eternall happinesse . Die would , the very expresse saying of Plato in Phædone . Astart , befall unwares . Nectar and Ambrosia , bee fained to be the drinke and foode of the gods : Ambrosia they liken ...
... happie soules do rest in peace and eternall happinesse . Die would , the very expresse saying of Plato in Phædone . Astart , befall unwares . Nectar and Ambrosia , bee fained to be the drinke and foode of the gods : Ambrosia they liken ...
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Aeglogue aspyre beasts beautie behold bowre brest bright carefull celestiall Chaucer Colin Colin Clout cruell Cuddie deare death delight devize Dido dight doest doth dreadfull earth eccho ring eternall eyes faire farre fayre flocke flowre Foxe fyre gentle glorie glorious gods goodly grace grone happie hart hast hath heaven heavenly herse hight himselfe Hobbinoll honour immortall learned light live Lord lyke mightie Muses musick mynd night noble nought nymphes paine Palinode plaine pleasure Poets powre praise pride pype raunge rest saith Sapience scorne seemeth selfe shee sheepe shepheards SHEPHEARDS CALENDER shew shyning sight sing Sith skie song SONNET sore sorrow soule spide spright starre sunne sweet teares thee Theocritus therein thereof theyr thilke things thou unto vaine verse vertue Virgil weene whilome wight wings wize wont wretched
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Page 27 - Oft peeping in her face, that seems more fayre ' The more they on it stare. ' But her sad eyes, still fastened on the ground, ' Are governed with goodly modesty, 235 ' That suffers not one look to glaunce awry, ' Which may let in a little thought unsownd.
Page 78 - day I wrote her name upon the strand ;, But came the waves, and washed it away; Agayne, I wrote it with a second hand; But came the tyde, and made my paynes his pray. Vayne Man! sayd she, that doest in vayne assay A mortall thing so to immortalize; For I iny selve shall lyke to this decay, And eke my name
Page 198 - seene, 125 A pallace fit for such a virgin queene. So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer hodie doth
Page 57 - the ocean wyde, By conduct of some star, doth make her way ; Whenas a storm hath dimd her trusty guyde, Out of her course doth wander far astray ! So I, whose star, that wont with her hright ray Me to direct, with clouds is
Page 212 - gave, And after, when we fared had amisse, Us wretches from the second death did save; And last, the food of life, which now we have, Even He Himselfe, in his dear sacrament, 195 To feede our hungry soules, unto us lent. Then next, to love our
Page 195 - Whether in earth layd up in secret store, Or else in heaven, that no man may it see With sinfull eyes, for feare it to deflore, Is perfect Beautie, which all men adore; 4-0 Whose face and feature doth so much excell All mortal sense, that none the same may tell. Thereof as every earthly thing partakes Or more or
Page 154 - dewe drops from the higher tree, And wets the little plants that lowly dwell: But if sadde winters wrath, and season chill, Accord not with thy Muses merriment, To sadder times thou maist attune thy quill, 35 And sing of sorrowe and deathes dreriment; For deade is Dido, deade, alas
Page 17 - Next whereunto there stands a stately place, Where oft I gayned giftes and goodly grace Of that great lord, which therein wont to dwell. Whose want too well now feels my
Page 205 - But all those follies now I do reprove, And turned have the tenor of my string, The heavenly prayses of true Love to sing. And ye that wont with greedy vaine desire 15 To reade my fault, and, wondring at my flame, To warme your selves at my wide sparckling fire, Sith now that heat is quenched, quench my
Page 155 - desire of worthie deeds forlorne, And name of learning utterly doo scorne. Ne doo they care to have the auncestrie Of th' old heroes memorizde anew; 440 Ne doo they care that late posteritie Should know their names, or speak their praises dew, But die forgot, from whence at first they sprang, As they themselves