The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Spenser, DanielAlexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 - English poetry |
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... thought , And with false shewes abuse his fantasy ; In sort as he him schooled privily . And that new creature , borne without her dew , Full of the makers guyle , with usage sly He taught to imitate that lady trew , Whose semblance she ...
... thought , And with false shewes abuse his fantasy ; In sort as he him schooled privily . And that new creature , borne without her dew , Full of the makers guyle , with usage sly He taught to imitate that lady trew , Whose semblance she ...
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... thought her such as she me told , And would have kild her ; but with faigned paine The false witch did my wrathfull hand withhold : So left her , where she now is turnd to treën mould . " Thensforth I tooke Duessa for my dame , And in ...
... thought her such as she me told , And would have kild her ; but with faigned paine The false witch did my wrathfull hand withhold : So left her , where she now is turnd to treën mould . " Thensforth I tooke Duessa for my dame , And in ...
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... thought her to have defilde , And made the vassall of his pleasures vilde . Yet first he cast by treatie , and by traynes , Her to persuade that stubborne fort to yilde : For greater conquest of hard love he gaynes , That workes it to ...
... thought her to have defilde , And made the vassall of his pleasures vilde . Yet first he cast by treatie , and by traynes , Her to persuade that stubborne fort to yilde : For greater conquest of hard love he gaynes , That workes it to ...
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... thought , That her perswaded to disclose the breach Which love and fortune in her heart had wrought ; And said , " Faire sir , I hope good hap hath brought You to inquere the secrets of my griefe ; Or that your wisdome will direct my ...
... thought , That her perswaded to disclose the breach Which love and fortune in her heart had wrought ; And said , " Faire sir , I hope good hap hath brought You to inquere the secrets of my griefe ; Or that your wisdome will direct my ...
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... thought at first encounter to have slaine . But wise and wary was that noble pere ; And , lightly leaping from so monstrous maine , Did fayre avoide the violence him nere ; [ beare ; It booted nought to thinke such thunderbolts to Ne ...
... thought at first encounter to have slaine . But wise and wary was that noble pere ; And , lightly leaping from so monstrous maine , Did fayre avoide the violence him nere ; [ beare ; It booted nought to thinke such thunderbolts to Ne ...
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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...