The Faerie Queene, Libro 1

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University Press, 1928 - 294 páginas
 

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Página 265 - I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast.. .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.
Página 219 - Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue... Come, pensive Nun, devout and pure, Sober, steadfast, and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain Flowing with majestic train: And sable stole of cypress lawn.
Página 223 - in fortune— often the surfeit of our own behaviour—we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon and the stars; as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves and treachers by spherical predominance.
Página 288 - And the Lord God said Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever. Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from
Página lxxiii - I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices, both public and private, of peace and war 1
Página 219 - And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue... Come, pensive Nun, devout and pure, Sober, steadfast, and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain Flowing with majestic train: And sable stole of cypress lawn.
Página 154 - paine the passage have, That makes fraile flesh to feare the bitter wave ? Is not short paine well borne, that brings long ease, And layes the soule to sleepe in quiet grave ? Sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life does greatly please. 41 The knight much wondred at his suddeine wit,
Página 6 - 9 The Laurell, meed of mightie Conquerours And Poets sage, the Firre that weepeth still, The Willow worne of forlorne Paramours, The Eugh obedient to the benders will, The Birch for shaftes, the Sallow for the mill, The Mirrhe sweete bleeding in the bitter wound, The warlike Beech, the Ash for nothing ill, The fruitfull Olive, and the Platane round,
Página 4 - So pure and innocent, as that same lambe, She was in life and every vertuous lore, And by descent from Royall lynage came Of ancient Kings and Queenes, that had of yore 40 . , " " \- Their scepters stretcht from East to Westerne shore, ,,*'. And all the world in their subjection held; Till that infernall feend with foule uprore
Página 1 - did maske, As time her taught, in lowly Shepheards weeds, Am now enforst a far unfitter taske, For trumpets sterne to chaunge mine Oaten reeds, And sing of Knights and Ladies gentle deeds ; Whose prayses having slept in silence long, Me, all too meane, the sacred Muse areeds To blazon broad emongst her learned throng:

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