The British Poets: Including Translations ... |
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Términos y frases comunes
againe aged armes backe beare Beast beautie behold blood body Booke brest brought cause cruell Dame dead deadly deare death deepe delight doth downe dread Duessa earth eyes face Faery faire fall false fayre feare fell fight fire force gave gentle goodly grace griefe ground hand hart hast hath head heard heare heaven himselfe hope huge King Knight Lady land late leave light living looke Lord mightie mind Muse never nigh noble nought paine poet powre praise pray Prince proud Queene quoth rage rest secret seemd seeme selfe shield side sight soone sore Spenser strong sweet tell thee thing thou thought turne unto vaine vertues Virgin wearie Whiles wide wight wise wondrous wont wood wound wretched
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Página 29 - A GENTLE Knight was pricking on the plaine, Ycladd in mightie armes and silver shielde, Wherein old dints of deepe woundes did remaine, The cruell markes of many a bloody fielde ; Yet armes till that time did he never wield : His angry steede did chide his foming bitt, As much disdayning to the curbe to yield : Full jolly knight he seemd, and faire did sitt, As one for knightly giusts and fierce encounters fitt.
Página 4 - I have followed all the antique Poets historicall ; first Homere, who in the Persons of Agamemnon and Ulysses hath ensampled a good governour and a vertuous man, the one in his Ilias, the other in his Odysseis : then Virgil, whose like intention was to doe in the person of...
Página 3 - The generall end therefore of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline...
Página 65 - One day, nigh wearie of the yrkesome way, From her unhastie beast she did alight; And on the grasse her dainty limbs did lay In...
Página 184 - Come, come away, fraile, feeble, fleshly wight, Ne let vaine words bewitch thy manly hart, Ne divelish thoughts dismay thy constant spright : In heavenly mercies hast thou not a part ? Why shouldst thou then despeire, that chosen art...
Página 51 - He then devisde himselfe how to disguise; For by his mighty science he could take As many formes and shapes in seeming wise, As ever Proteus to himselfe could make: Sometime a fowle, sometime a fish in lake, Now like a foxe, now like a dragon fell; That of himselfe he ofte for feare would quake, And oft would flie away.
Página 190 - She was araied all in lilly white, And in her right hand bore a cup of gold, With wine and water fild up to the hight, In which a Serpent did himselfe enfold, That horrour made to all that did behold ; But she no...
Página 30 - To prove his puissance in battell brave Upon his foe, and his new force to learne; Upon his foe, a Dragon horrible and stearne.
Página 40 - Sir knight, ye have advised bin, (Quoth then that aged man) the way to win Is wisely to advise: now day is spent; Therefore with me ye may take up your in For this same night.
Página 66 - O how can beautie maister the most strong, And simple truth subdue avenging wrong! Whose yielded...