A Subject-index to the Poems of Edmund Spenser

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Yale University Press, 1919 - 261 pages
 

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Page 235 - Thames' broad, aged back do ride, Where now the studious lawyers have their bowers, There whilom wont the Templar Knights to bide, Till they decayed through pride...
Page 205 - Then gin I thinke on that which Nature sayd, Of that same time when no more Change shall be, But stedfast rest of all things, firmely stayd Upon the pillours of Eternity, That is contrayr to Mutabilitie ; For all that moveth doth in Change delight : But thence-forth all shall rest eternally With Him that is the God of Sabaoth hight : O ! that great Sabaoth God, grant me that Sabaoths sight ! COMPLAINT OF THALIA (COMEDY).
Page 112 - Of all that might delight a dainty ear, Such as at once might not on living ground, Save In this paradise, be heard elsewhere: Right hard it was for wight which did it hear, To...
Page 106 - As guileful goldsmith that by secret skill With golden foil doth finely over-spread Some baser metal, which commend he will Unto the vulgar for good gold instead, He much more goodly gloss thereon doth shed To hide his falsehood...
Page 169 - She home return, whose voice's silver sound To cheerful songs can change my cheerless cries. Hence with the nightingale will I take part, That blessed bird, that spends her time of sleep In songs and plaintive pleas, the more t'augment 910 The memory of his misdeed that bred her woe.
Page 124 - Asked if in husbandry he aught did know, To plough, to plant, to reap, to rake, to sow, To hedge, to ditch, to thrash, to thatch, to mow ? Or to what labour else he was...
Page 233 - Some tolde of Ladies, and their Paramoures ; Some of brave Knights, and their renowned Squires ; Some of the Faeries and their strange attires ; And some of Giaunts, hard to be beleeved ; That the delight thereof me much releeved.
Page 194 - And lastly came cold February, sitting In an old wagon, for he could not ride, Drawne of two fishes, for the season fitting, Which through the flood before did softly slyde And swim away : yet had he by his side His plough and harnesse fit to till the ground, And tooles to prune the trees, before the pride Of hasting Prime did make them burgein round. So past the twelve Months forth, and their dew places found. And after these there came the Day and Night, Riding together both with equall pase, Th...
Page 95 - So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For, of the soul, the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make.
Page 163 - And girt in garlands of wild ivy twine, How I could rear the Muse on stately stage, And teach her tread aloft in buskin fine, With quaint Bellona in her equipage.

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