Holiness: Or, The Legend of St. George: a Tale from Spencer's [!] Faerie Queene

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E. R. Broaders, 1836 - 182 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 177 - Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best. All higher Knowledge in her presence falls Degraded; Wisdom in discourse with her Loses, discountenanced, and like Folly shews; Authority and Reason on her wait...
Pàgina 157 - Whereto whenas they now approached near, With hearty words her knight she gan to cheer, And in her modest manner thus bespake ;
Pàgina 21 - CANTO II. The guileful great enchanter parts The Red Cross Knight from Truth : Into whose stead fair Falsehood steps, And works him woeful ruth. BY this the northern wagoner had set His sevenfold team behind the steadfast star That was in ocean waves yet never wet, But firm is fixt, and sendeth light from far To all that in the wide deep wandring are ; And cheerful chanticlere with his note shrill Had warned once, that Phoebus...
Pàgina 176 - Be thou as pure as ice, as chaste as snow, thou shall not escape Calumel.
Pàgina 164 - But yet at last, when that the direful fiend She saw not stir, off-shaking vain affright, She nigher drew, and saw that joyous end : Then God she praised, and thanked her faithful knight...
Pàgina 39 - Her up he took, (too simple and too true,) And oft her kist. At length, all passed fear, He set her on her steed, and forward forth did bear. CANTO III. Forsaken Truth long seeks her Love, And makes the lion mild; Mars blind Devotion's mart, and falls In hand of leachour vyld.3 I. NOUGHT is there under heaven's wide hollowness, That moves more dear compassion of mind, Then beauty brought t' unworthy wretchedness Through envy's snares, or fortune's freaks unkind.
Pàgina 105 - ... shadow all this to behold ; And much rejoiced in their bloody fray : But, when he saw the damsel pass away, He left his stand, and her pursued apace, In hope to bring her to her last decay.
Pàgina 6 - Fly, fly!" then quoth the frightened dwarf; " this is no place for living men." But the youthful knight, full of courage and daring, could not be stayed.
Pàgina 179 - Rome in England ? St. George has not yet repented of the pride of the flesh, from whose dominions he had just escaped. He was therefore weak, an easy prey to the pride of a spiritual hierarchy. Thus ever does animal self indulgence betray man to spiritual bondage.
Pàgina 80 - O noblest Knight, be angry no longer! Some evil power has covered your enemy with the cloud of night, and borne him away to the regions of darkness. The conquest is yours, I am yours, the shield and the glory are yours." Then the trumpets sounded, and running heralds made humble homage, and the shield, the cause of all the enmity, was brought to the Red Cross Knight. He went to the Queen, and, kneeling before her, offered her his service, which she accepted with thanks and much satisfaction, greatly...

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