Edmund Spenser Quotes - Page 5

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• And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.

  Edmund Spenser

  Depressing, Pain, Pleasure

  'The Faerie Queen' (1596) bk. 3, canto 10, st. 60

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• After her came jolly June, arrayed
  All in green leaves, as he a player were;
  Yet in his time he wrought as well as played,
  That by his plough-irons mote right well appear.
  Upon a crab he rode, that did him bear,
  With crooked crawling steps, an uncouth pace,
  And backward rode, as bargemen wont to fare,
  Bending their force contrary to their face;
  Like that ungracious crew which feigns demurest grace.

  Edmund Spenser

  Spring, Player, June

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• But Justice, though her dome she doe prolong,
  Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.

  Edmund Spenser

  Justice, Doe, Lasts

  "The Faerie Queene, Book Five".

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• Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!

  Edmund Spenser

  War, Men, Flesh

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• No daintie flowre or herbe that growes on grownd, No arborett with painted blossoms drest And smelling sweete, but there it might be fownd To bud out faire, and throwe her sweete smels al arownd.

  Edmund Spenser

  Bud, Might, Als

  Robert Anderson, Geoffrey Chaucer, Henry Howard Earl of Surrey, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Thomas Sackville Earl of Dorset (1795). “The Works of the British Poets. With Prefaces”, p.109

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• Through knowledge we behold the world's creation, How in his cradle first he fostered was; And judge of Nature's cunning operation, How things she formed of a formless mass.

  Edmund Spenser

  Judging, World, Firsts

  Edmund Spenser, George Gilfillan (1859). “The poetical works of Edmund Spenser: With memoir and critical dissertations”, p.46

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• I learned have, not to despise,What ever thing seemes small in common eyes.

  Edmund Spenser

  Eye, Common, Despise

  Edmund Spenser (1822). “The poems of Edmund Spenser”, p.252

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• So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life, the leaf, the bud, the flower; No more doth flourish after first decay, That erst was sought to deck both bed and bower Of many a lady and many a paramour. Gather therefore the rose whilst yet in prime, For soon comes age that will her pride deflower. Gather the rose of love whilst yet in time, Whilst loving thou mayst loved be with equal crime.

  Edmund Spenser

  Flower, Pride, Rose

  'The Faerie Queen' (1596) bk. 2, canto 12, st. 75

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• Where justice grows, there grows eke greater grace.

  Edmund Spenser

  Justice, Grace, Grows

  1590 Of Mammon.The Faerie Queen, bk.2, canto 7, stanza 4.

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• At last, the golden orientall gate Of greatest heaven gan to open fayre, And Phoebus, fresh as brydegrome to his mate, Came dauncing forth, shaking his dewie hayre; And hurls his glistring beams through gloomy ayre.

  Edmund Spenser

  Heaven, Aurora, Golden

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• What more felicitie can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with libertie, And to be lord of all the workes of Nature, To raine in th' aire from earth to highest skie, To feed on flowres and weeds of glorious feature.

  Edmund Spenser

  Weed, Nature, Fall

  Edmund Spenser, John Payne Collier, Norris Deck (1866). “The poetical works of Edmund Spenser ...”, p.63

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• Go little book, thy self present, As child whose parent is unkent: To him that is the president Of noblesse and of chivalry, And if that Envy bark at thee, As sure it will, for succour flee.

  Edmund Spenser

  Children, Book, Self

  1579 The Shepherd's Calendar, 'To His Book'.

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• In youth, before I waxe' d old, The blind boy,Venus' baby, For want of cunning made me bold, In bitter hive to grope for honey.

  Edmund Spenser

  Baby, Boys, Want

  1595 Amoretti,'Anacreontics', no.1.

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• Fierce warres and faithfull loves shall moralize my song.

  Edmund Spenser

  Song, Fierce

  Edmund Spenser, Carol V. Kaske (2006). “The Faerie Queene, Book One”, p.3, Hackett Publishing

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• Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled,On Fames eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.

  Edmund Spenser

  Fame, Chaucer, Wells

  Edmund Spenser, Philip Masterman (1839). “The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser”, p.20

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• The paynefull smith, with force of fervent heat, The hardest yron soone doth mollify, That with his heavy sledge he can it beat, And fashion it to what he it list apply.

  Edmund Spenser

  Fashion, Lists, Heat

  Edmund Spenser, George Stillman Hillard (1860). “The poetical works of Edmund Spenser”, p.323

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• Rising glory occasions the greatest envy, as kindling fire the greatest smoke.

  Edmund Spenser

  Fire, Envy, Rising

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• Good is no good, but if it be spend,
  God giveth good for none other end.

  Edmund Spenser

  Charity, Ends, Ifs

  Edmund Spenser (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Spenser (Illustrated)”, p.65, Delphi Classics

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• The Patron of true Holinesse,
  Foule Errour doth defeate:
  Hypocrisie him to entrappe,
  Doth to his home entreate.

  Edmund Spenser

  Book, Home, Patron

  Edmund Spenser (1867). “Spenser. Book i of The faery queene, ed. by G.W. Kitchin”, p.3

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• There learned arts do flourish in great honour
  And poets's wits are had in peerless price;
  Religion hath lay power, to rest upon her,
  Advancing virtue, and suppressing vice.
  For end all good, all grace there freely grows,
  Had people grace it gratefully to use:
  For God His gifts there plenteously bestows,
  But graceless men them greatly do abuse.

  Edmund Spenser

  Art, Men, People

  Edmund Spenser, George Gilfillan (1859). “The poetical works of Edmund Spenser: With memoir and critical dissertations”, p.175

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• This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.

  Edmund Spenser

  Heart, Iron, Mind

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• From good to bad, and from bad to worse,
  From worse unto that is worst of all,
  And then return to his former fall.

  Edmund Spenser

  Fall, Return, Worst

  Edmund Spenser (1859). “Poetical Works”, p.225

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• What though the sea with waves continuall Doe eate the earth, it is no more at all ; Ne is the earth the lesse, or loseth ought : For whatsoever from one place doth fall Is with the tyde unto another brought : For there is nothing lost, that may be found if sought.

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  Fall, Sea, Doe

  Edmund Spenser (1840). “The Works of Edmund Spenser: With Observations on His Life and Writings”, p.247

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• Then came October, full of merry glee.

  Edmund Spenser

  Autumn, Glee, October

  Edmund Spenser (1758). “Spenser's Faerie queene”, p.323

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• Pour out the wine without restraint or stay,
  Pour not by cups, but by the bellyful,
  Pour out to all that wull.

  Edmund Spenser

  Wine, Cups, Restraint

  Edmund Spenser (1715). “The Works of Mr. Edmund Spenser”, p.1266

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