The complete works in verse and prose of Edmund Spenser. Ed. with a new life and a glossary, by A.B. Grosart, Volum 31882 |
Frases i termes més freqüents
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Passatges populars
Pàgina xxix - Or along the shallow brook, Angling with a baited hook, See the fishes leap and play In a blessed sunny day : Or to hear the partridge call Till she have her covey all : Or to see the subtle fox, How the villain plies the box...
Pàgina xxii - WHEN tender ewes, brought home with evening sun, Wend to their folds, And to their holds The shepherds trudge when light of day is done, Upon a tree The eagle, Jove's fair bird, did perch ; There resteth he. A little fly his harbour then did search, And did presume, though others laughed thereat, To perch whereas the princely eagle sat.
Pàgina 52 - And him beside sits ugly Barbarisme, And brutish Ignorance, ycrept of late Out of dredd darknes of the deepe Abysme, Where being bredd, he light and heaven does hate : They in the mindes of men now tyrannize, And the faire Scene with rudenes foule disguize.
Pàgina lix - Ne ceulx avec qui là dedans demeurent. Car toute odeur ambrosienne y fleurent, Et n'ont jamais ne deux ne trois saisons, Mais un printemps, et jamais ilz ne pleurent Perte d'amys, ainsi que nous faisons. En ces beaulx champs et nayfves maisons Loyse vit, sans peur, peine ou mesaise; Et nous ça bas, pleins d'humaines raisons.
Pàgina xcv - He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
Pàgina 184 - To raine in th' aire from earth to highest skie, To feed on flowres, and weeds of glorious feature, To take what...
Pàgina 53 - Rolling in rymes of shameles ribaudrie Without regard, or due Decorum kept ; Each idle wit at will presumes to make, And doth the Learneds taske upon him take.
Pàgina xcvii - imported,' as Camden tells us, 'from Calais, and so well liked by the English, although most ridiculous, that, learned or unlearned, he was nobody that could not hammer out of his name an invention by this wit-craft, and picture it accordingly. Whereupon...
Pàgina 15 - Looke backe, who list, unto the former ages, And call to count what is of them become : Where be those learned wits and antique Sages, Which of all wisedome knew the perfect somme ? Where those great warriors, which did overcome The world with conquest of their might and maine, And made one meare of th...
Pàgina xxxvii - Which, ended, turn to nought. Yet shall my truest cause Of sorrow firmly stay, When these effects the wings of time Shall fan and sweep away. " Look, as a sweet rose fairly budding forth Bewrays her beauties to th...