Her ivory forehead full of bounty brave, Like a broad table did itself dispread, For Love his lofty triumphs to engrave, ' And write the battles of his great godhead : All good and honour might therein be read; For there their dwelling was. Sound, 8 lectures - Page 241by John Tyndall - 1867Full view - About this book
| Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1882 - 1134 pages
...might; For with dread majesty and awful ire. She broke his. wanton darts, and quenched baae deelre. x Welsh hia lofty triumphs to engrave. And write the battles of his great godhead: All good and honour might... | |
| 1887 - 380 pages
...her. Beaum. and Fleteher, Mons. Tlinmas I, 1. Und bei Spenser, Fairie Queen, II, 3, 24: Her yvorie forehead, full of bounty brave, Like a broad table...engrave, And write the battles of his great godhead. Aehnlich schildert Philip Sidney (Book I, p. 59) die schöne Parthenia : For her great gray eye, which... | |
| Robert Nares - English language - 1888 - 514 pages
...3/oiis. Thomas, i, 1. Her yvorie/0/7i<W, full of bounty brave, Like a broad table did itselfc dispred. For love his lofty triumphs to engrave, And write the battles of his great godhead _, . . Sfau.P.6.,ll,(u,!H. This is part of the description of a perfect ideal beauty : Her/0>v hfad... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 628 pages
...might; For, with dread majesty and awful ire, She broke his wanton darts, and quenched base desire. Her ivory forehead full of bounty brave. Like a broad...engrave, And write the battles of his great godhead: All good and honour might therein be read; For there their dwelling was. And when she spake. Sweet words... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1896 - 794 pages
...sore, Her constant heart did court with divers guile j But words and looks and sighs she did abhor. SPENSER. Her ivory forehead, full of bounty brave,...engrave, And write the battles of his great godhead SPENSER. The doubts and dangers, the delays and woes, The feigned friends, the unassured foes, Do make... | |
| James Freeman Clarke - American essays - 1898 - 390 pages
...wanton darts and quenched base desire. " Her ivory forehead, full of bounty brave, Like a broad tablet did itself dispread, For love his lofty triumphs to...engrave, And write the battles of his great godhead ; All good and honor might therein be read, For there their dwelling was ; and when she spake, Sweet words,... | |
| Robert Nares - English language - 1901 - 496 pages
...Moru. Thomas, i, 1. Her yvorie/orAra*/, full of bounty brave, Like a broad table did itselfc dispred, For love his lofty triumphs to engrave, And write the battles of his grrcal godhead. Spaa. PQ, II, iii, 24. This is part of the description of a perfect ideal beauty :... | |
| William Hazlitt - English essays - 1902 - 516 pages
...of the Greek face in this respect is admirably expressed in Spenser's description of Belphœbe : ' Her ivory forehead, full of bounty brave, Like a broad table did itself dispread, For love therein his triumphs to engrave, And write the battles of his great Godhead. Upon her eyelids many... | |
| Felix Emmanuel Schelling - English literature - 1910 - 528 pages
...no might; For with dread majesty and awful ire, She broke his wanton darts and quenched base desire. Her ivory forehead, full of bounty brave, Like a broad...engrave, And write the battles of his great godhead: All good and honor might therein be read; For there their dwelling was. And when she spake, Sweet words,... | |
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