Spenser's Faerie Queene: A Poem in Six Books; with the Fragment Mutabilite, Том 5

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Страница 1043 - So oft as I with state of present time The image of the antique world compare, When as mans age was in his freshest prime, And the first blossome of faire vertue bare ; Such oddes I finde twixt those, and these which are, As that, through long continuance of his course, Me seemes the world is runne quite out of square From the first point of his appointed sourse...
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Страница 1175 - The liberty of women did repeale, Which they had long usurpt; and, them restoring To mens subjection, did true Justice deale, That all they, as a Goddesse her adoring, Her wisedome did admire, and hearkned to her loring.
Страница 1044 - Let none then blame me, if, in discipline Of vertue and of civill uses lore, I doe not forme them to the common line Of present dayes, which are corrupted sore, But to the antique use * which was of yore, When good was onely for itselfe desyred, And all men sought their owne, and none no more ; When Iustice was not for most meed out-hyred, But simple Truth did rayne, and was of all admyred.
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Страница 1046 - Almighties stead, And with magnificke might and wondrous wit Doest to thy people righteous doome aread, That furthest nations filles with awfull dread, Pardon the boldnesse of thy basest thrall, That dare discourse of so divine a read, As thy great iustice praysed over all; The instrument whereof loe here thy Artegall.
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