The Fowre HymnesUniversity Press, 1907 - 79 pages |
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admyre amor angels Aphrodite aspyre beames behold bellezza beloved body brest bright Britomart celestiall conception darts delight desire desyre Diotima divine beauty doest doth earth earthly Eryximachus eternall explains eyes Faerie Queene faire fairer farre fayning Ficino and Bruno flame fleshly Fowre Hymnes fyre glorie glorious gods goodly grace happie hart hath heast heavenly beauty heavens Hymne in Honour idea immortall indeede influence inspiration Kindled light lover Marsilio Ficino mightie mind mortall mynd noble nought ottava rima outward passion Pausanias perfect beauty Phaedrus Plato poet powre praise Sapience selfe sense Shepheards Calender shew shyning sight simulacrum Socrates Sonnet soul soveraine Spenser spirit spright Sunne sunt sweet Symposium Temperance thee thereof things thou thought Timaeus unto Venus wight wings wondrous wyde ἂν γὰρ δὲ δὴ ἐν ἐπὶ μὲν οὔτε πρὸς τὰ τε καὶ τὴν τῆς τὸ τοῦ τῷ τῶν
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Page xl - The meanes, therefore, which unto us is lent Him to behold, is on his workes to looke, Which he hath made in beauty excellent, And in the same, as in a brasen booke, To reade enregistred in every nooke His goodnesse, which his beautie doth declare ; For all thats good is beautifull and faire.
Page 16 - So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For, of the soul, the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make.
Page li - ... to two, and from two to all fair forms, and from fair forms to fair practices, and from fair practices to fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute beauty, and at last knows what the essence of beauty is.
Page lii - But what if man had eyes to see the true beauty— the divine beauty, I mean, pure and clear and unalloyed, not clogged with the pollutions of mortality and all the colours and vanities of human life— thither looking, and holding converse with the true beauty simple and divine?
Page xv - The terme of life is limited, Ne may a man prolong nor shorten it: The souldier may not move from watchfull sted, Nor leave his stand untill his Captaine bed. Who life did limit by almightie doome...
Page 35 - Yet farre more faire be those bright Cherubins, Which all with golden wings are overdight, And those eternall burning Seraphins, . Which from their faces dart out fierie light : Yet fairer then they both, and much more bright, Be th' Angels and Archangels, which attend On God's owne person without rest or end.
Page xlii - I know not any greater blessing to a young man who is beginning life than a virtuous lover, or to the lover than a beloved youth. For the principle which ought to be the guide of men who would nobly live— that principle, I say, neither kindred, nor honour, nor wealth, nor any other motive is able to implant so well as love.
Page 61 - But he was lyk a maister or a pope. Of double worstede was his semycope, That rounded as a belle out of the presse. Somwhat he lipsed, for his wantownesse, To make his Englissh sweete upon his tonge; And in his harpyng, whan that he hadde songe, His eyen twynkled in his heed aryght, As doon the sterres in the frosty nyght.
Page 64 - 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?
Page xxv - Why stand ye still ye virgins in amaze, Upon her so to gaze, Whiles ye forget your former lay to sing, To which the woods did answer, and your eccho ring? But if ye saw that which no eyes can see, The inward beauty of her lively spright...