The Complete Works in Verse and Prose: Faerie queene

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Spenser society, 1882

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Страница 248 - who with his fcyth addreft, 35° Does mow the flowring herbes and goodly things, And all their glory to the ground downe flings, Where they do wither, and are fowly mard : He flyes about, and with his flaggy wings Beates downe both leaues and buds without regard, Ne euer pittie may relent his malice hard.
Страница 117 - a Porch with rare deuice, Archt ouerhead with an embracing vine, Whofe bounches hanging downe, feemed to entice All paffers by, to tafte their lufhious wine, And did themfelues into their hands incline, As freely offering to be gathered : Some deepe empurpled as the Hyacint, Some as the Rubine, laughing fweetly red, 490
Страница 99 - all withered like a dryed rooke, Thereto as cold and drery as a Snake, That feem'd to tremble euermore, and quake : All in a canuas thin he was bedight, 200 And girded with a belt of twifted brake, Vpon his head he wore an Helmet light, Made of a dead mans ikull, that
Страница 119 - The trembling groues, the Chriftall running by ; And that, which all faire workes doth moft aggrace, The art, which all that wrought, appeared in no place. One would haue thought, (fo cunningly, the rude, And fcorned parts were mingled with the fine,) That nature had for wantoneffe enfude 53°
Страница 111 - in the fomy waues enrold, Which feem'd to fly for feare, them to behold : Ne wonder, if thefe did the knight appall ; For all that here on earth we dreadfull hold, Be but as bugs to fearen babes withall, Compared to the creatures in the feas
Страница 235 - with faire béâmes did her adorne, And all the Graces rockt her cradle being borne. Her berth was of the wombe of Morning dew, And her conception of the ioyous Prime, And all her whole creation did her fhew Pure and vnfpotted from all loathly crime, That / is ingenerate in flefhy
Страница 23 - powres gan wexe both weake and wan, For want of food, and fleepe, which two vpbeare, Like mightie pillours, this fraile life of man, That none without the fame enduren can. For now three dayes of men were full outwrought, Since he this hardie enterprize began : For thy great Mammon fairely he befought,
Страница 89 - a mightie people fhortly grew, And puiffaunt kings, which all the world warrayd, And to them felues all Nations did fubdew : The firft and eldeft, which that fcepter fwayd, Was Elfin ; him all India obayd, And all that now America men call : 650 Next him was noble Elfinan, who layd Cleopolis foundation firft of all : But
Страница 77 - Through difcord, and the royall throne forlorne : Thenceforth this Realme was into factions rent, Whileft each of Brutus boafted to be borne, That in the end was left no moniment Of Brutus, nor of Britons glory auncient. Then vp arofe a man of matchleffe might, 330 And wondrous wit to menage high affaires,
Страница 182 - all To Elfes, but fprong of feed terreftriall, And whilome by falfe Paries ftolne away, Whiles yet in infant cradle he did crall ; Ne other to himfelfe is knowne this day, But that he by an Elfe was gotten of a Fay. But footh he is the fonne of Gorlois, 240 And brother vnto Cador

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