The Works of Edmund Spenser: The life of Spenser. The shepheards calendar. The Faerie queene. bk. I. The legend of the knight of the red cross, canto I-VIII.-v. 2. bk. I. The legend of the knight of the red crosse, canto IX-XII. bk. II. The legend of Sir Guyon, canto I-XII. bk. III. The legend of Britomartis, canto I-VIII.-v. 3., bk. III. The legend of Britomartis, canto IX-XII. bk. IV. The legend of Cambel and Triamond, canto I-XII. bk. V. The legend of Artegall, canto I-X.-v. 4. bk. V. The legend of Artegall, canto XI-XII. bk. VI. The legend of S. Calidore, canto I-XII. Two cantos of Mutabilitie, canto VI-VIII. Miscellanies.-v. 5. Complaints. Colin Clouts come home againe. Amoretti and Epithalamion. Foure hymnes. Daphnaida. Prothalamion. Brittain'sIda. A view of the state of Ireland. Glossary

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Pàgina 188 - Then choosing out few words most horrible, (Let none them read!) thereof did.. verses frame; With which, and other spelles like terrible, He bad awake blacke Plutoes griesly dame; And cursed heven; and spake reprochful shame Of highest God, the Lord of life and light. A bold bad man ! that dar'd to call by name Great Gorgon, prince of darknes and dead night; At which Cocytus quakes, and Styx is put to flight.
Pàgina 190 - Is tost with troubled sights and fancies weake, He mumbled soft, but would not all his silence breake.
Pàgina lxxxiii - Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is, in suing long to bide: To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed today, to be put back tomorrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Pàgina xxxi - The Hexamiter verse I graunt to be a Gentleman of an auncient house (so is many an english begger) , yet this Clyme of ours hee cannot thriue in; our speech is too craggy for him to set his plough in, hee goes twitching and hopping in our language like a man running...
Pàgina 234 - And on his head an yvie girland had, From under which fast trickled downe the sweat. . Still as he rode he somewhat...
Pàgina 245 - In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun : which cometh forth as a bridegroom •out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a giant to run his course.
Pàgina 185 - 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 148 - Tasso dissevered them againe, and formed both parts in two persons, namely that part which they in Philosophy call Ethice, or vertues of a private man, coloured in his Rinaldo; the other named Politice in his Godfredo.
Pàgina 191 - Who all this while, with charmes and hidden artes, Had made a Lady of that other Spright, And fram'd of liquid ayre her tender partes, So...
Pàgina 293 - Like to an almond tree ymounted hye On top of greene Selinis all alone, With blossoms brave bedecked daintily ; Whose tender locks do tremble every one At everie little breath that under heaven is blowne.

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