Frasi di Edmund Spenser

Edmund Spenser è stato un poeta britannico.

È stato Poet Laureate sotto il regno di Elisabetta I d'Inghilterra. Wikipedia  

✵ 1552 – 13. Gennaio 1599   •   Altri nomi एडमंड स्पेंसर, ادموند اسپنسر, אדמונד ספנסר
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Edmund Spenser: Frasi in inglese

“The noblest mind the best contentment has.”

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene

Canto 1, stanza 35
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book I

“And all for love, and nothing for reward.”

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene

Canto 8, stanza 2
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book II

“I hate the day, because it lendeth light
To see all things, but not my love to see.”

Daphnaida, v. 407; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“How oft do they their silver bowers leave
To come to succour us that succour want!”

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene

Canto 8, stanza 2
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book II

“Sweete Themmes runne softly, till I end my Song.”

The last line of each stanza
This is often attributed to T. S. Eliot, who does indeed quote it in The Waste Land
Prothalamion (1596)

“Eftsoones they heard a most melodious sound.”

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene

Canto 12, stanza 70
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book II

“Ay me, how many perils doe enfold
The righteous man, to make him daily fall!”

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene

Canto 8, stanza 1
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book I

“And in his hand a sickle he did holde,
To reape the ripened fruits the which the earth had yold.”

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene

Canto 7, stanza 30
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book VII

“But of his cheere did seeme too solemne sad;
Yet nothing did he dread, but ever was ydrad.”

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene

Canto 1, stanza 2
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book I

“I trow that countenance cannot lie,
Whose thoughts are legible in the eie.”

An Elegie, or Friends Passion, for his Astrophill (1586), line 108

“Behold, whiles she before the altar stands,
Hearing the holy priest that to her speakes,
And blesseth her with his two happy hands.”

Epithalamion, line 223; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Fierce warres and faithfull loves shall moralize my song.”

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene

Introduction, stanza 1
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book I

“For all that Nature by her mother-wit
Could frame in earth.”

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene

Canto 10, stanza 21
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book IV

“Tell her the joyous Time will not be staid,
Unlesse she doe him by the forelock take.”

Edmund Spenser Amoretti

Amoretti, lxx; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“A bold bad man, that dar'd to call by name
Great Gorgon, Prince of darknesse and dead night.”

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene

Canto 1, stanza 37
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book I

“I was promised on a time
To have reason for my rhyme;
From that time unto this season,
I received nor rhyme nor reason.”

Lines on his Promised Pension; reported in Thomas Fuller, Worthies of England, vol ii, page 379, and in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“To kerke the narre from God more farre,
Has bene an old-sayd sawe;
And he that strives to touche a starre
Oft stombles at a strawe.”

Edmund Spenser libro The Shepheardes Calender

The Shepheardes Calender, July, line 97; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“And is there care in Heaven? And is there love
In heavenly spirits to these Creatures bace?”

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene

Canto 8, stanza 1
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book II

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