The Works of Edmund Spenser, Volumen3

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Bell and Daldy, 1862 - 477 páginas
 

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Página 150 - Blake was his herd, and manly was his face. The cercles of his eyen in his hed They gloweden betwixen yelwe and red, And like a griffon loked he about, With kemped heres on his browes stout; His limmes gret, his braunes hard and stronge, . His shouldres brode, his armes round and longe. And as the guise was in his contree, Ful highe upon a char of gold stood he, With foure white bolles in the trais.
Página 421 - So there a while they afterwards remained, Him to refresh, and her late wounds to heale: During which space she there as Princess rained, And changing all that forme of common weale, The liberty of women did repeale, Which they had long vsurpt; and them restoring To mens subiection, did true lustice deale: That all they as a Goddesse her adoring, Her wisedome did admire, and hearkned to her loring.
Página 461 - With piteous ruth of her so wretched plight, Though plaine she saw, by all that she did heare, That she of death was guiltie found by right, Yet would not let iust vengeance on her light ; But rather...
Página 52 - For round about the walls yclothed were With goodly arras of great majesty, Woven with gold and silke, so close and nere That the rich metall lurked privily, As faining to be hidd from envious eye ; Yet here, and there, and every where, unwares It shewd it selfe and shone unwillingly ; Like a discolourd Snake, whose hidden snares Through the greene gras his long bright burnisht back declares.
Página 257 - Could frame in earth, and forme of substance base, Was there ; and all that nature did omit, Art, playing second natures part, supplyed it.
Página 335 - Or weigh the thought that from man's mind doth flow: But if the weight of these thou canst not show, Weigh but one word which from thy lips doth fall...
Página 284 - Ouse came far from land, By many a city and by many a towne And many rivers taking under-hand Into his waters as he passeth downe, The Cle, the Were, the Grant, the Sture, the Rowne. Thence doth by Huntingdon and Cambridge flit, My mother Cambridge, whom as with a Crowne He doth adorne, and is adorn'd of it With many a gentle Muse and many a learned wit.
Página 258 - And all without were walkes and alleyes dight With divers trees enrang'd in even rankes ; And here and there were pleasant arbors pight, And shadie seates, and sundry flowring bankes, To sit and rest the walkers wearie shankes : And therein thousand payres of lovers walkt, Praysing their god, and yeelding him great thankes, Ne ever ought but of their true loves talkt, Ne ever for rebuke or blame of any balkt.
Página 95 - And much unlike ; th' one long, the other short, And both misplast; that, when th' one forward yode, The other backe retired and contrarie trode. "Likewise unequal! were her handes twaine ; That one did reach, the other pusht away ; That one did make, the other mard againe, And...
Página 423 - Drawne with the powre of an heart-robbing eye, And wrapt in fetters of a golden tresse, That can with melting pleasaunce mollifye Their hardned hearts enur'd to bloud and cruelty, n.

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