Frasi di Edmund Spenser
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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

“Her berth was of the wombe of morning dew,
And her conception of the joyous Prime.”

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene

Canto 6, stanza 3
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book III

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

Visions of the Worlds Vanitie (1591), line 69

“Roses red and violets blew,
And all the sweetest flowres that in the forrest grew.”

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene

Canto 6, stanza 6
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book III

“Death slue not him, but he made death his ladder to the skies.”

Another [Epitaph] of the Same (1586), line 20

“A Gentle Knight was pricking on the plaine.”

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene

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

“But Justice, though her dome [doom] she doe prolong,
Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.”

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene

Canto 11, stanza 1
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book V

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

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene

Canto 2, stanza 32
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book IV

“A monster, which the Blatant beast men call,
A dreadfull feend of gods and men ydrad.”

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene

Canto 12, stanza 37
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book V

“Who will not mercie unto others show,
How can he mercy ever hope to have?”

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene

Canto 2, stanza 42
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book V

“The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
For a man by nothing is so well bewrayd,
As by his manners.”

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene

Canto 3, stanza 1; Spenser here is referencing and paraphrasing a statement from the "Wife of Bath's Tale" of Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer: "he is gentil that doth gentil dedis."
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book VI

“Entire affection hateth nicer hands.”

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene

Canto 8, stanza 40
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book I

“Through thicke and thin, both over banke and bush
In hope her to attaine by hooke or crooke.”

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene

Canto 1, stanza 17
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book III

“Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.”

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene

Canto 2, stanza 43
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book V

“O happy earth,
Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread!”

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene

Canto 10, stanza 9
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book I

“As the great eye of heaven, shyned bright,
And made a sunshine in the shady place.”

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene

Canto 3, stanza 4
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book I

“For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,
And by eternall doome of Fate's decree,
Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.”

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene

Canto vi, stanza 33
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book VII

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