The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Edmund Spenser: The faerie queene, Bk. V, canto 8-Bk. VI ; Two cantos of mutabilitie ; Letter to Sir Walter Raleigh ; Commendatory poems and sonnets

Portada
private circulation only, 1882
 

Otras ediciones - Ver todas

Términos y frases comunes

Pasajes populares

Página 306 - Then came old January, wrapped well In many weeds to keep the cold away...
Página 318 - For the Methode of a Poet historical is not such, as of an Historiographer. For an Historiographer discourseth of affayres orderly as they were donne, accounting as well the times as the actions ; but a Poet thrusteth into the middest, even where it most concerneth him, and there recoursing to the thinges forepaste, and divining of thinges to come, maketh a pleasing Analysis of all.
Página 307 - Th' one on a Palfrey blacke, the other white; But Night had covered her uncomely face With a blacke veile, and held in hand a mace, On top whereof the moon and stars were pight; And sleep and...
Página 316 - Aristotle hath devised ; the which is the purpose of these first twelve bookes : which if I finde to be well accepted, I may be perhaps encoraged to frame the other part of polliticke vertues in his person, after that hee came to be king.
Página 305 - Next was November; he full grosse and fat As fed with lard, and that right well might seeme; For he had been a fatting hogs of late, That yet his browes with sweat did reek and steem, And yet the season was full sharp and breem : In planting eeke he took no small delight.
Página 220 - For some, that hath abundance at his will, Hath not enough, but wants in greatest store, And other, that hath litle...
Página 302 - Then came the Autumne all in yellow clad, As though he joye'd in his plentious store, Laden with fruits that made him laugh, full glad That he had banisht hunger, which to-fore Had by the belly oft him pinche'd sore : Upon his head a wreath, that was enrold With ears of corne of every sort, he bore ; And in his hand a sickle he did holde, To reape the ripened fruits the which the earth had yold.
Página 302 - Lastly, came Winter cloathed all in frize, Chattering his teeth for cold that did him chill...
Página 304 - And backward yode, as bargemen wont to fare Bending their force contrary to their face, Like that ungracious crew which faines demurest grace.
Página 295 - To hide the terror of her uncouth hew From mortall eyes that should be sore agrized ; For that her face did like a lion shew, That eye of wight could not indure to view...

Información bibliográfica