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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... meanes of some familiar acquaintance I was made privie to his counsaile and secret meaning in them , as also in sundrie other works of his . Which albeit I know he nothing so much hateth , as to promul- gate , yet thus much have I ...
... meanes of some familiar acquaintance I was made privie to his counsaile and secret meaning in them , as also in sundrie other works of his . Which albeit I know he nothing so much hateth , as to promul- gate , yet thus much have I ...
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... meanes Chaucer , whose praise for pleasant tales cannot die , so long as the memorie of his name shall live , and the name of poetrie shall endure . Well thewed , that is , Bene morata , Full 40 THE SHEFHEARDS CALENDER .
... meanes Chaucer , whose praise for pleasant tales cannot die , so long as the memorie of his name shall live , and the name of poetrie shall endure . Well thewed , that is , Bene morata , Full 40 THE SHEFHEARDS CALENDER .
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... meanes of certaine fine fablers , and loude lyers , such as were the au- thors of King Arthure the great , and such like , who tell many an unlawfull leasing of the Ladies of the Lake , that is , the Nymphes . For the word Nymph in ...
... meanes of certaine fine fablers , and loude lyers , such as were the au- thors of King Arthure the great , and such like , who tell many an unlawfull leasing of the Ladies of the Lake , that is , the Nymphes . For the word Nymph in ...
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... meanes of maintenaunce , And to continue their wont countenaunce : But shepheard must walke another way , Sike worldly sovenance he must for - say . 80 The sonne of his loines why should be regard To leave enriched with that he hath ...
... meanes of maintenaunce , And to continue their wont countenaunce : But shepheard must walke another way , Sike worldly sovenance he must for - say . 80 The sonne of his loines why should be regard To leave enriched with that he hath ...
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... meanes , but little can say . But , and if foxes bene so craftie as so , Much needeth all shepheards hem to know . 310 PIERS . Of their falshode more I could recount , But now the bright sunne gynneth to dismount ; And , for the deawie ...
... meanes , but little can say . But , and if foxes bene so craftie as so , Much needeth all shepheards hem to know . 310 PIERS . Of their falshode more I could recount , But now the bright sunne gynneth to dismount ; And , for the deawie ...
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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