The Faerie Queene, Llibre 1University Press, 1928 - 294 pàgines |
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adventure allegory Anne Boleyn Archimage armes Arthur beast beauty behold bitter bloud brest CANTO Chaucer cruell Dame daughter deadly deare death doth dragon dread dreadfull Duessa earthly Elfin knight Elizabeth eternall eyes Faerie Queene faire false farre fast feare fierce fight filthy flowre fowle gentle Gloriana gold goodly grace griefe grone hand hart hast hath heaven heavenly hight holy House of Pride John Perrot Jove king Knight's Tale Lady light Mary Mary Tudor means mightie Milton never nigh nought Orgoglio paine Paradise Lost Paynim powre pride Prince probably Protestantism proud quoth rage Redcrosse Knight rest Sansfoy Satyrane Satyres seemd seems selfe shew shield shyned sight sonne sore soul Spenser spide spright steed sweet thee things thou tree Truth unto vaine virgin wandring wearie wondrous wonne wont word wound wrath wretched wyde yron
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Pàgina 291 - Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?
Pàgina 223 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to...
Pàgina 279 - But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: and thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.
Pàgina 287 - Nay, their endeavour keeps in the wonted pace : but there is, sir, an aery of children, little eyases, that cry out on the top of question, and are most tyrannically clapped for 't : these are now the fashion, and so berattle the common stages— so they call them— that many wearing rapiers are afraid of goose-quills and dare scarce come thither.
Pàgina 286 - Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God : and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
Pàgina 222 - Vanity Will sicken soon and die, And leprous Sin will melt from earthly mould ; And Hell itself will pass away, And leave her dolorous mansions to the peering day.
Pàgina 239 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat...
Pàgina 12 - At length they chaunst to meet upon the way An aged Sire, in long blacke weedes yclad, His feete, all bare, his beard all hoarie gray And by his belt his booke he hanging had...
Pàgina 248 - The firste moevere of the cause above Whan he first made the faire cheyne of love, Greet was theffect, and heigh was his entente; Wel wiste he, why, and what therof he mente, For with that faire cheyne of love he bond The fyr, the eyr, the water, and the lond, In certeyn boundes that they may nat flee.
Pàgina 286 - Into the Euboic sea. Others more mild, Retreated in a silent valley, sing With notes angelical to many a harp Their own heroic deeds and hapless fall By doom of battle; and complain that fate Free virtue should enthrall to force or chance.