The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 |
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adamant rocke Archimago armes Beast behold blood brest Britomartis CANTO chaunce chaunst corage corse courser cruell Dame deadly deare death devize dismaid dore doth dread dreadfull Duessa EDMUND SPENSER Elfin Knight Enchaunter enimy eternall evermore eyes Faery Knight Faery Queene faire faire Lady false Duessa fast fayre feare feeble flowre fowle gentle goodly grace griefe grone Gyaunt hand hart hast hath heaven heavenly hight himselfe ioyous Lady light living wight Lord mightie Muse never nigh noble nought Paynim poet powre pray Prince proud quake quight quoth rage Redcrosse Knight Sansfoy seemd selfe sence Shee shew shield shyne sight Sith sonne sore sownd speach Spenser spide spright staind steed straunge suddein sunne sweet syre thee thou traveiled trew unto vaine vertues Virgin wandring wearie weene whenas wondrous wonne wont wound wrath wretched wyde yron
Δημοφιλή αποσπάσματα
Σελίδα 29 - 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.
Σελίδα 4 - I have followed all the antique Poets historicall ; first Homere, who in the Persons of Agamemnon and Ulysses hath ensampled a good governour and a vertuous man, the one in his Ilias, the other in his Odysseis : then Virgil, whose like intention was to doe in the person of...
Σελίδα 3 - The generall end therefore of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline...
Σελίδα 65 - One day, nigh wearie of the yrkesome way, From her unhastie beast she did alight; And on the grasse her dainty limbs did lay In...
Σελίδα 184 - 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...
Σελίδα 51 - He then devisde himselfe how to disguise; For by his mighty science he could take As many formes and shapes in seeming wise, As ever Proteus to himselfe could make: Sometime a fowle, sometime a fish in lake, Now like a foxe, now like a dragon fell; That of himselfe he ofte for feare would quake, And oft would flie away.
Σελίδα 190 - She was araied all in lilly white, And in her right hand bore a cup of gold, With wine and water fild up to the hight, In which a Serpent did himselfe enfold, That horrour made to all that did behold ; But she no...
Σελίδα 30 - To prove his puissance in battell brave Upon his foe, and his new force to learne; Upon his foe, a Dragon horrible and stearne.
Σελίδα 40 - Sir knight, ye have advised bin, (Quoth then that aged man) the way to win Is wisely to advise: now day is spent; Therefore with me ye may take up your in For this same night.
Σελίδα 66 - O how can beautie maister the most strong, And simple truth subdue avenging wrong! Whose yielded...