The Works of Edmund Spenser, Volumen2F. C. & J. Rivington, 1805 |
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... whofe Jerufalem was , at the time when he wrote , the best plan of an epick poem after Virgil , fhould be poffeffed with this af- fectation , and thould not believe his work perfect till he had turned it into a mystery . I cannot help ...
... whofe Jerufalem was , at the time when he wrote , the best plan of an epick poem after Virgil , fhould be poffeffed with this af- fectation , and thould not believe his work perfect till he had turned it into a mystery . I cannot help ...
Página xxiv
... whofe command the i having been accustomed to conceive of them in a diminutive way , ] Mr. Warton has thown , in his differtation on Spenfer's Imitations from old Romances , that " littleness is not always implied in Fairy . " TODD ...
... whofe command the i having been accustomed to conceive of them in a diminutive way , ] Mr. Warton has thown , in his differtation on Spenfer's Imitations from old Romances , that " littleness is not always implied in Fairy . " TODD ...
Página xxix
... Whofe tender lockes do tremble every one " At everie little breath , that under heaven is blowne . " I must not omit mentioning the House of Pride , and that of Holinefs , which are beautiful Allegories in different parts of this Book ...
... Whofe tender lockes do tremble every one " At everie little breath , that under heaven is blowne . " I must not omit mentioning the House of Pride , and that of Holinefs , which are beautiful Allegories in different parts of this Book ...
Página xxxi
... Whofe hart - ftrings with keene steele nigh hewen be ; " The mightie trunck halfe rent with ragged rift " Doth roll adowne the rocks , and fall with fearfull drift . " These are fuch paffages as we may imagine our ex- cellent Milton to ...
... Whofe hart - ftrings with keene steele nigh hewen be ; " The mightie trunck halfe rent with ragged rift " Doth roll adowne the rocks , and fall with fearfull drift . " These are fuch paffages as we may imagine our ex- cellent Milton to ...
Página xxxiii
... whofe affiftance he is reftored to the Palmer . I cannot think the poet.fo fuccessful in his de- scription of the House of Temperance , in which the Allegory feems to be debased by a mixture of too many low images , as Diet , Concoction ...
... whofe affiftance he is reftored to the Palmer . I cannot think the poet.fo fuccessful in his de- scription of the House of Temperance , in which the Allegory feems to be debased by a mixture of too many low images , as Diet , Concoction ...
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Página 19 - Yet wisedome warnes, whilest foot is in the gate, To stay the steppe, ere forced to retrate. This is the wandring wood, this Errours den, A monster vile, whom God and man does hate : Therefore I read beware. Fly, fly (quoth then The fearefull Dwarfe) this is no place for living men.
Página cxii - So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness : and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication : and upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
Página xxxv - To th' instruments divine respondence meet; The silver sounding instruments did meet With the base murmure of the waters fall; The waters fall with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call; The gentle warbling wind low answered to all.
Página cxi - And there appeared another wonder in heaven ; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth...
Página 47 - Ah Sir, my liege lord, and my love, Shall I accuse the hidden cruell fate. And mightie causes wrought in heaven above, Or the blind god, that doth me thus amate. For hoped love to winne me certaine hate? Yet thus perforce he bids me do, or die. Die is my dew ; yet rew my wretched state, You, whom my hard avenging destinie Hath made judge of my life or death indifferently. LII. "Your owne deare sake forst me at first to leave My fathers kingdom...
Página 43 - 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...
Página 42 - Is tost with troubled sights and fancies weake, He mumbled soft, but would not all his silence breake.
Página 30 - 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...
Página 40 - And wakeful dogges before them farre doe lye, Watching to banish Care their enimy, Who oft is wont to trouble gentle Sleepe. By them the Sprite doth passe in quietly, And unto Morpheus comes, whom drowned deepe In drowsie fit he findes : of nothing he takes keepe.
Página cxxxv - Which default when as some endevoured to salve and recure, they patched up the holes with peces and rags of other languages, borrowing here of the french, there of the Italian, every where of the Latine, not weighing how il those tongues accorde with themselves, but much worse with ours : So now they have made our English tongue, a gallimaufray or hodge-podge of al other speches.