The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Edmund Spenser: The Faerie queene

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Private circulation only, 1882
 

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Pàgina 255 - He letteth in, he letteth out to wend All that to come into the world desire: A thousand thousand naked babes attend About him day and night, which doe require That he with fleshly...
Pàgina 125 - Not that celestiall powre, to whom the care Of life, and generation of all That lives, perteines in charge particulare, Who wondrous things concerning our welfare...
Pàgina 133 - Right hard it was for wight which did it heare, To read what manner musicke that mote bee ; For all that pleasing is to living eare Was there consorted in one harmonee ; Birdes, voices, instruments, windes, waters, all agree : The joyous birdes, shrouded in chearefull shade Their notes unto the voice attempred sweet ; Th...
Pàgina 75 - But true it is that, when the oyle is spent, The light goes out, and weeke is throwne away; So when he had resignd his regiment, His daughter gan despise his drouping day...
Pàgina 126 - Mantled with greene, and goodly beautifide With all the ornaments of Floraes pride, Wherewith her mother Art, as halfe in scorne Of niggard Nature, like a pompous bride Did decke her, and too lavishly adorne, When forth from virgin bowre she comes in th
Pàgina 138 - See the mind of beastly man, That hath so soone forgot the excellence Of his creation, when he life began, That now he chooseth with vile difference To be a beast, and lacke intelligence...
Pàgina 261 - Ne feareth he henceforth that foe of his, Which with his cruell tuske him deadly cloyd: For that wilde bore, the which him once annoyd, She firmely hath emprisoned for ay, That her sweet...
Pàgina 44 - Of all Gods workes, which do this world adorne, There is no one more faire and excellent. Then is mans body both for powre and forme, Whiles it is kept in sober government ; But none then it, more fowle and indecent, Distempred through misrule and passions bace It growes a Monster, and incontinent Doth loose his dignitie and native grace.
Pàgina 255 - Th' one faire and fresh, the other old and dride: Old Genius the porter of them was, Old Genius, the which a double nature has.
Pàgina 129 - And scorned partes were mingled with the fine,) That Nature had for wantonesse ensude Art, and that Art at Nature did repine; So striving each th...

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