Observations on the Fairy Queen of Spenser, Volume 1For R. Dutton, Gracechurch-Street and Thomas Ostell, Ave-Marie Lane, 1807 - Epic poetry, English |
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... dragon , in the first book , or quells the magician Busirane , in the third . These are the victories of St. George and of Britomart . On the whole , the twelve Knights do too much for Arthur The is to do any thing ; or at least , so 9.
... dragon , in the first book , or quells the magician Busirane , in the third . These are the victories of St. George and of Britomart . On the whole , the twelve Knights do too much for Arthur The is to do any thing ; or at least , so 9.
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... dragon , that had ravaged their country , and perpetually laid wait to destroy them . The knight sets forward with ... dragon's devastation , kills him , and is presented to the king and queen whom he has just delivered ; marries their ...
... dragon , that had ravaged their country , and perpetually laid wait to destroy them . The knight sets forward with ... dragon's devastation , kills him , and is presented to the king and queen whom he has just delivered ; marries their ...
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... dragon : it will be necessary to transcribe the whole passage , which , I believe , will not be thought too long . It fortuned ( as faire it then befell ) Behind his back , vnweeting , where he stood , Of auncient time there was a ...
... dragon : it will be necessary to transcribe the whole passage , which , I believe , will not be thought too long . It fortuned ( as faire it then befell ) Behind his back , vnweeting , where he stood , Of auncient time there was a ...
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... dragon followed on Bevis so hard , That as he would have fled backward , There was a well as I weene , And he stumbled right therein . Then was Sir Bevis afraid and woe , Lest the dragon should him sloe : Or that he might away passe ...
... dragon followed on Bevis so hard , That as he would have fled backward , There was a well as I weene , And he stumbled right therein . Then was Sir Bevis afraid and woe , Lest the dragon should him sloe : Or that he might away passe ...
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Thomas Warton. After which the dragon strikes the knight with such violence , that he falls into a swoon , and tumbles as it were lifeless into the well , by whose sovereign virtue he is revived . " When Bevis was at the ground The water ...
Thomas Warton. After which the dragon strikes the knight with such violence , that he falls into a swoon , and tumbles as it were lifeless into the well , by whose sovereign virtue he is revived . " When Bevis was at the ground The water ...
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afterwards alludes ancient Apollonius autem ballad beautiful Bevis bite borrowed Britomartis called castle Caxton censured Charlemagne Chaucer chivalry circumstance Cocytus copied from Ariosto copied from Chaucer Cupid darraine doth dragon edit enchanted English Faerie faire Fairy Queen favourite fiction flesh genius glitterand golden goodly Harrington hath hero hint Homer horn horse House of Fame Hylas Ibid imitation Italian Jonson Joseph of Arimathea King Arthur King Arthur's Knight's Tale Lady Lake likewise Lond manner mentioned Merlin Milton Morte Arthur noble old romance Onomacritus Ophion Orlando Orlando Furioso Orpheus Orthrus passage Pastorals poem poet poetry printed Queen Elizabeth's Questing Beast reader rhyme round table satires seems Silius Italicus Sir Dagonet Sir Topas Sir Tristram song speaks Spen Spenser Squier's Tale stanza story supposed sword Talus tell thou tion tongue translated tree unto verses word written δε
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Page 23 - With mazy error, under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise ; which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain...
Page 344 - Sirens' harmony, That sit upon the nine infolded spheres, And sing to those that hold the vital shears, And turn the adamantine spindle round On which the fate of gods and men is wound. Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie, To lull the daughters of Necessity, And keep unsteady Nature to her law, And the low world in measured motion draw After the heavenly tune, which none can hear Of human mould with gross unpurged ear.
Page 338 - Through the dear might of him that walked the waves. Where other groves and other streams along, With nectar pure his oozy locks he laves, And hears the unexpressive nuptial song, In the blest kingdoms meek of joy and love. There entertain him all the saints above, In solemn troops, and sweet societies, That sing, and singing in their glory move, And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes.
Page 72 - ... blind harpers or such like taverne minstrels that give a fit of mirth for a groat, and their matters being for the most part stories of old time, as the tale of sir Topas, the reportes of Bevis of Southampton, Guy of Warwicke, Adam Bell, and Clymme of the Clough, and such other old romances or historicall rimes, made purposely for recreation of the common people at christmasse diners and brideales, and in tavernes and alehouses, and such other places of base resort.
Page 346 - Such forces met not, nor so wide a camp, When Agrican with all his northern powers Besieged Albracca, as romances tell, The city of Gallaphrone, from thence to win The fairest of her sex Angelica, His daughter, sought by many prowest knights, Both Paynim, and the peers of Charlemain.
Page 340 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Page 298 - AND I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
Page 21 - But it is absurd to think of judging either Ariosto or Spenser by precepts which they did not attend to. We who live In the days of writing by rule, are apt to try every composition by those laws which we have been taught to think the sole criterion of excellence. Critical...
Page 113 - Therefore a God him sage Antiquity Did wisely make, and good Agdistes call ; But this same was to that quite contrary, The foe of life, that good envyes to all, That secretly doth us procure to fall...
Page 188 - The Laurell, meed of mightie Conquerours And Poets sage ; the Firre that weepeth still : The Willow, worne of forlorne Paramours ; The Eugh...