The Faerie Queene, Book One

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Houghton, Mifflin, 1905 - 232 páginas
 

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Página 23 - of burnisht Yvory, The other all with silver overcast; 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. 2 • XLI
Página 59 - High above all a cloth of State was spred, And a rich throne, as bright as sunny day; On which there sate, most brave embellished With royall robes and gorgeous array, A mayden Queene that shone as Titans ray, In glistring gold and perelesse pretious stone; Yet her bright blazing beautie did assay 1
Página 12 - The sayling Pine ; the Cedar proud and tall ; The vine-propp Elme ; the Poplar never dry ; The builder Oake, sole king of forrests all ; The Aspine good for staves ; the Cypresse f unerall ; The Laurell, meed of mightie Conquerours ^
Página 10 - v 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 Kinges and Queenes, that had of yore Their scepters stretcht from East to Westerne shore, And all the world in their subjection held; Till that infernall feend with foule uprore 1 earne, yearn.
Página 155 - And all about old stockes and stubs of trees, Whereon nor fruit nor leafe was ever seene, Did hang upon the ragged rocky knees; On which had many wretches hanged beene, Whose carcases were scattred on the greene, And throwne about the cliffs. Arrived there, That bare-head
Página 5 - the Queene much wondering, and the Lady much gainesaying, yet he earnestly importuned his desire. In the end the Lady told him, that unlesse that armour which she brought, would serve him^ ((that is, the armour of a Christian man specified by Saint Paul, vi.
Página 12 - 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
Página 51 - so sore. XXXI Much like, as when the beaten marinere, That long hath wandred in the Ocean wide, Ofte soust in swelling Tethys saltish teare; And long time having tand his tawney hide With blustring breath of Heaven, that none can bide, And scorching flames of fierce Orions hound; 3 1 of mine excuse, for excusing me.
Página 21 - which to sleep them biddes. Unto their lodgings then his guestes he riddes: Where when all drownd in deadly sleepe he findes, He to his studie goes; and there amiddes His magick bookes, and artes of sundrie kindes, He seekes out mighty charmes to trouble sleepy minds. 1 edifyde, built.
Página 221 - XLH Now, strike your sailes, yee jolly Mariners, For we be come unto a quiet rode, Where we must land some of our passengers, And light this weary vessell of her lode: Here she a while may make her safe abode, Till she repaired have her tackles spent,

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