The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Spenser, DanielAlexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 - English poetry |
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... gentle - whispering winds their breath apply To ' swage the fever of the sultry sky ; Smit with the sweet Sicilian's simple strain , I try the rural reed , but fondly try To match his pastoral airs and happy vein : Next I assay the ...
... gentle - whispering winds their breath apply To ' swage the fever of the sultry sky ; Smit with the sweet Sicilian's simple strain , I try the rural reed , but fondly try To match his pastoral airs and happy vein : Next I assay the ...
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... gentle deeds ; Whose praises having slept in silence long , Me , all too meane , the sacred Muse areeds To blazon broade emongst her learned throng : Fierce warres and faithful loves shall moralize my song . Help then , O holy virgin ...
... gentle deeds ; Whose praises having slept in silence long , Me , all too meane , the sacred Muse areeds To blazon broade emongst her learned throng : Fierce warres and faithful loves shall moralize my song . Help then , O holy virgin ...
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... gently play , Which from a sacred fountaine welled forth away . Arrived there , the litle house they fill , Ne looke ... gentle Sleepe . By them the sprite doth passe in quietly , And unto Morpheus comes , whom drowned deepe In drowsie ...
... gently play , Which from a sacred fountaine welled forth away . Arrived there , the litle house they fill , Ne looke ... gentle Sleepe . By them the sprite doth passe in quietly , And unto Morpheus comes , whom drowned deepe In drowsie ...
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... gentle blandishment and lovely looke , [ took . Most like that virgin true , which for her knight him All cleane dismayd to see so uncouth sight , And halfe enraged at her shamelesse guise , He thought have slaine her in his fierce ...
... gentle blandishment and lovely looke , [ took . Most like that virgin true , which for her knight him All cleane dismayd to see so uncouth sight , And halfe enraged at her shamelesse guise , He thought have slaine her in his fierce ...
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... gentle husher , Vanitie by name , Made rowme , and passage for them did prepaire : So goodly brought them to the lowest stayre Of her high throne ; where they , on humble knee Making obeysaunce , did the canse declare , Why they were ...
... gentle husher , Vanitie by name , Made rowme , and passage for them did prepaire : So goodly brought them to the lowest stayre Of her high throne ; where they , on humble knee Making obeysaunce , did the canse declare , Why they were ...
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Page 119 - How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies like flying pursuivant, Against foul fiends to aid us militant! They for us fight, they watch and duly ward, And their bright squadrons round about us plant; And all for love, and nothing for reward: O why should Heavenly God to men have such regard ? LONDON: APPROVED SCHOOL BOOKS.
Page 119 - How oft do they their silver bowers leave, To come to succour us, that succour want? How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies, like flying pursuivant, Against foul fiends to aid us militant?
Page 50 - And, more, to lulle him in his slumber soft, A trickling streame from high rock tumbling downe, And ever-drizling raine upon the loft, Mixt with a murmuring winde, much like the sowne Of swarming bees, did cast him in a swowne: No other noyse, nor peoples troublous cryes, As still are wont t' annoy the walled towne, Might there be heard: but carelesse Quiet lyes, Wrapt in eternall silence farre from enimyes.
Page 47 - That greatest Gloriana to him gave, (That greatest Glorious Queene of Faery lond) To winne him worshippe, and her grace to have, Which of all earthly thinges he most did crave : And ever as he rode his hart did earne To prove his puissance in battell brave Upon his foe, and his new force to learne, Upon his foe, a Dragon horrible and stearne.
Page 55 - And layd her stole aside. Her angels face, As the great eye of heaven, shyned bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place : Did never mortall eye behold such heavenly grace.
Page 413 - O! fayrest goddesse, do thou not envy My love with me to spy: For thou likewise didst love, though now unthought...
Page 55 - O, how can beautie maister the most strong, And simple truth subdue avenging wrong ! Whose yielded pryde and proud submission, Still dreading death, when she had marked long, Her hart gan melt in great compassion ; And drizling teares did shed for pure affection. 'The Lyon, Lord of everie beast in field.
Page 47 - Crosse he bore, The deare remembrance of his dying Lord, For whose sweete sake that glorious badge he wore, And dead, as living, ever him ador'd : Upon his shield the like was also scor'd, For soveraine hope which in his helpe he had.
Page 395 - Come softly swimming downe along the Lee ; Two fairer Birds I yet did never see ; The snow, which doth the top of Pindus strew...
Page 169 - Right in the middest of that Paradise There stood a stately mount, on whose round top A gloomy grove of mirtle trees did rise...