Edmund Spenser citáty a výroky
Edmund Spenser: Citáty anglicky
“Her berth was of the wombe of morning dew,
And her conception of the joyous Prime.”
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.”
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.”
Canto 1, stanza 1
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book I
Zdroj: Prothalamion (1596), Line 37
“But Justice, though her dome [doom] she doe prolong,
Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.”
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.”
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.”
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?”
Canto 2, stanza 42
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book V
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.”
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.”
Canto 1, stanza 17
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book III
“Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.”
Canto 2, stanza 43
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book V
“For all that faire is, is by nature good;
That is a signe to know the gentle blood.”
An Hymne in Honour of Beautie, line 139
“O happy earth,
Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread!”
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.”
Canto 3, stanza 4
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book I
Muiopotmos: or, The Fate of the Butterflie, line 209; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)