The Faerie Queene, Llibre 1University Press, 1928 - 293 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 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 221 - Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where, with her best nurse Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings. That, in the various bustle of resort, Were all to-ruffled, and sometimes impaired. He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i...
Pàgina 236 - And purple all the ground with vernal flowers. Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe and pale jessamine, The white pink, and the pansy...
Pàgina 263 - And then at last our bliss, Full and perfect is, But now begins : for, from this happy day, The old dragon under ground, In straiter limits bound, Not half so far casts his usurped sway ; And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail.
Pàgina 288 - And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil : and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life...
Pàgina 253 - But their way Lies through the perplexed paths of this drear wood, The nodding horror of whose shady brows Threats the forlorn and wandering passenger...
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 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 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...