The Faerie Queene: Disposed Into Twelve Bookes Fashioning XII Morall Vertues

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G. Routledge, 1855 - 820 sider
 

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Side ix - in the whole course thereof I have fashioned, without expressing of any particular purposes, or by-accidents, therein occasioned. The general end, therefore, of all the booke, is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline; which for that I conceived shoulde be most plausible and pleasing, being coloured with an
Side 264 - angelicall soft trembling voyces made 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. There, whence that musick seemed heard to bee,
Side 201 - th" exceeding grace And all his workes with mercy doth embrace, Of highest God. that loves his creatures so, That blessed angels he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe! How oft do they their silver bowers leave
Side 2 - For soveraine hope, which in his helpe he had. Eight, faithfull, true he was in deede and word; But of his cheere did seeme too solemne sad; Yet nothing did he dread, but ever was ydrad. Upon a great adventure he was bond, 3 That greatest Gloriana to him gave, (That greatest glorious Queene of Faery lond) To
Side 2 - 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 seor'd, For soveraine hope, which in his helpe he had.
Side 3 - The willow, worne of forlorne paramours; The cugh, 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 fruitful olive ; and the platane round ; The carver holme; the maple, seldom inward sound.
Side 793 - and wake, after she weary was, With bathing in the Acidalian brooke. 310 Now it is night, ye damsels may be gone, And leave my love alone, And leave likewise your former lay to sing: The woods no more shall answer, nor your eccho ring. Now welcome, night! thou night so long expected, That
Side xi - him (that is, the armour of a Christian man specified by St. Paul, v. Ephes.) that he could not succeed in that enterprise: which being forthwith put upon him with dew furnitures thereunto, he seemed the goodliest man in al that company, and was well liked of the lady. And
Side 9 - He bad awake blacke Plutoes griesly dame ; Of highest God, the Lord of life and light. A bold bad man ! that dar'd to call by name Great Gorgon, prince of darknes and dead night; At which Cocytus quakes, and Styx is put to flight. And forth he cald out of deepe darknes dredd
Side 790 - And loud advaunce her laud; 145 And evermore they Hymen, Hymen sing, That all the woods them answer, and theyr eccho ring. Loe! where she comes along with portly pace, Lyke Phoebe, from her chamber of the east, Arysing forth to run her mighty race,

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