Select Works of the British Poets: From Chaucer to Jonson, with Biographical SketchesLongman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1831 - 1016 páginas |
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... knight than wol I firste beginne . A KNIGHT ther was , and that a worthy man , That fro the time that he firste began To riden out , he loved chevalrie , Trouthe and honour , fredom and curtesie . Ful worthy was he in his lordes werre ...
... knight than wol I firste beginne . A KNIGHT ther was , and that a worthy man , That fro the time that he firste began To riden out , he loved chevalrie , Trouthe and honour , fredom and curtesie . Ful worthy was he in his lordes werre ...
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... knight , that dwelt in that toun , Love hire so hote of foule affectioun , That veraily him thought that he shuld spille , But he of hire might ones han his wille . He woeth hire , but it availeth nought , She wolde do no sinne by no ...
... knight , that dwelt in that toun , Love hire so hote of foule affectioun , That veraily him thought that he shuld spille , But he of hire might ones han his wille . He woeth hire , but it availeth nought , She wolde do no sinne by no ...
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... knight ; him to behold Ful besily they waiten yong and old . This strange knight that come thus sodenly Al armed save his hed ful richely , Salueth king and quene , and lordes alle By order , as they saten in the halle , With so high ...
... knight ; him to behold Ful besily they waiten yong and old . This strange knight that come thus sodenly Al armed save his hed ful richely , Salueth king and quene , and lordes alle By order , as they saten in the halle , With so high ...
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... knights proud , And at the last as euenly as they coud , They took their places in middes of the mede , And euery knight turned his horse hede To his fellow , and lightly laid a spere In the rest , and so justes began On euery part ...
... knights proud , And at the last as euenly as they coud , They took their places in middes of the mede , And euery knight turned his horse hede To his fellow , and lightly laid a spere In the rest , and so justes began On euery part ...
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... Knights and Squires ( Which ought defende , the state of common welth ) Are not afrayd to couet like a King ? O blinde desire : oh high aspiring harts . The country Squire , doth couet to be Knight , The Knight a Lord , the Lord an Erle ...
... Knights and Squires ( Which ought defende , the state of common welth ) Are not afrayd to couet like a King ? O blinde desire : oh high aspiring harts . The country Squire , doth couet to be Knight , The Knight a Lord , the Lord an Erle ...
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Página 305 - How oft do they their silver bowers leave, To come to succour us, that succour want? How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies, like flying pursuivant, Against foul fiends to aid us militant?
Página 305 - How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies like flying pursuivant, Against foul fiends to aid us militant! They for us fight, they watch and duly ward, And their bright squadrons round about us plant; And all for love, and nothing for reward: O why should Heavenly God to men have such regard ? LONDON: APPROVED SCHOOL BOOKS.
Página 242 - The lyon would not leave her desolate, But with her went along, as a strong gard Of her chast person, and a faythfull mate Of her sad troubles and misfortunes hard : Still...
Página 327 - Such as attonce might not on living ground, Save in this Paradise, be heard elsewhere : Right hard it was for wight which did it heare, To read what manner musicke that mote bee ; For all that pleasing is to living eare Was there consorted in one harmonee ; Birdes, voices, instruments, windes, waters, all agree ; The joyous birdes, shrouded in chearefull shade, Their notes unto the voice attempred sweet ; Th...
Página 234 - That greatest Gloriana to him gave, (That greatest Glorious Queene of Faery lond) To winne him worshippe, and her grace to have, Which of all earthly thinges he most did crave : And ever as he rode his hart did earne...
Página 234 - Behind her farre away a Dwarfe did lag, That lasie seemd, in being ever last, Or wearied with bearing of her bag Of needments at his backe.
Página 429 - Or weigh the thought that from mans mind doth flow : But if the weight of these thou canst not show, Weigh but one word which from thy lips doth fall : For how canst thou those greater secrets know, That doest not know the least thing of them all ? Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
Página 318 - Deare countrey ! O! how dearely deare Ought thy remembraunce and perpetuall band Be to thy foster Childe, that from thy hand Did commun breath and nouriture receave. How brutish is it not to understand How much to her we owe, that all us gave ; That gave unto us all what ever good we have.
Página 236 - Then choosing out few words most horrible, (Let none them read) thereof did verses frame ; With which, and other spelles like terrible, He bad awake blacke Plutoes griesly Dame ; And cursed heven ; and spake reprochful shame Of highest God, the Lord of life and light : A bold bad man, that dar'd to call by name Great Gorgon, prince of darknes and dead night ; At which Cocytus quakes, and Styx is put to flight.
Página 495 - doe men The heavens of their fortunes fault accuse, Sith they know best what is the best for them; For they to each such fortune doe diffuse, As they doe know each can most aptly use: For not that which men covet most is best, Nor that thing worst which men do most refuse ; But fittest is, that all contented rest With that they hold : each hath his fortune in his brest.