Britomart, Selections from Spanser's Faery QueeneGinn, 1906 - 268 pagine |
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adventure Amongst Amoret Aread arms Artegall assay bade beauty Belphoebe Blandamour blood bold breast Britomart Briton brought castle Certes Chrysaor cruel dame dear despite dight dismayed doth dreadful Eftsoones Elfin knight ensample faery knight Faery Queene fair Britomart fair ladies fairest false fear fell fiercely fight Florimell Forthy foul gentle Glaucè goodly Grantorto grief ground Habergeon hand hard hath heart heaven Hight lady late light living Lord Lord Grey maid Maidenhead Merlin mighty mind mote nigh noble nought pain Paridell peril poet pow'r prince quoth Redcross Redcross knight rest revenge Satyrane Scudamour seemed shame shield sight Sith soon sore sorrow spear Spenser sprite steed Stound stout strange stroke Talus tell thee thereof therewith thou thought Triamond unto villeins warlike ween weet whenas whilom wight wist wonder wound wrath wreak wretched yield
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Pagina i - Did both find, helpers to their hearts' desire, And stuff at hand, plastic as they could wish, — Were called upon to exercise their skill, Not in Utopia, — subterranean fields, — Or some secreted island, Heaven knows where! But in the very world, which is the world Of all of us, — the place where, in the end, We find our happiness, or not at all...
Pagina xiv - The generall end therefore of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline...
Pagina vii - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide : To lose good days, that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Princes
Pagina xix - 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...
Pagina xxi - The beginning therefore of my history, if it were to be told by an Historiographer should be the twelfth booke, which is the last; where I devise that the Faery Queene kept her Annuall feaste xii.
Pagina xxi - 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.
Pagina xxx - And many hard adventures did atchieve ; Of all the which, they honour ever wonne, Seeking the weake oppressed to relieve. And to recover right for such as wrong did grieve.
Pagina vii - To have thy asking, yet wait many years ; To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares — To eat thy heart through comfortless despairs. To fawn, to crouch, to wait, to ride, to run, To spend, to give, to want, to be undone.
Pagina 106 - But painted plumes in goodly order dight, Like as the sun-burnt Indians do array Their tawny bodies in their proudest plight ; As those same plumes so...
Pagina 106 - Who seem'd of riper years than the other swain, Yet was that other swain this elder's sire, And gave him being, common to them twain : His garment was disguised very vain, And his embroidered bonnet sat awry ; Twixt both his hands few sparks he close did strain, Which still he blew, and kindled busily, That soon they life conceiv'd and forth in flames did fly.