Zur Vorgeschichte der Allegorie in Edmund Spensers "Faerie Queene".: Inaugural-Dissertation sur Erlangung der Doktorwürde ... der Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin

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G. Schade (O. Francke), 1904 - 65 pages
 

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Page 51 - And all by wrong wayes, for themselves prepard. Those that were up themselves, kept others low ; Those that were low themselves, held others hard, Ne suffred them to rise or greater grow ; But every one did strive his fellow downe to throw.
Page 13 - Venite ad me omnes qui laboratis et onerati estis, et ego reficiam vos. Tollite iugum meum super vos, et discite a me, quia mitis sum et humilis corde; et invenietis requiem animabus vestris.
Page 53 - Shee found them both in darkesome corner pent: Where that old woman day and night did pray Upon her beads devoutly penitent; Nine hundred Pater nosters every day, And thrise nine hundred Aves she was wont to say.
Page 61 - ... par pucele est prise, • or oez en quel guise. quant hom le volt cacer e prendre et enginner, si vent hom al forest u sis repaires est...
Page 5 - Cf. Mr. Jephson's remark, Skeat's ed. Pr. Tale, notes p. 136. •Jesus was frequently represented in early Christian paintings in the form of Orpheus, who overcame death. 9. The Allegorical Type. — Middle-English literature exhibits two types of allegory : the one religious and scholastic, having its origin in the exegetical and homiletic literature of the monks and leading on to the literature of the Reformation ; the other secular and profane, embodying the spirit of romance, personifying especially...
Page 21 - ... maluit. Recte itaque scriptum est in sanctis libris: >Initium superbiae hominis apostatare a deo< et >Initium omnis peccati superbia<.
Page 57 - The marshall ycclipped was dame Reason, And the yewres also Observaunce, The panter Plesaunce at every season; The good butler Curteis Continuaunce And the chefe coke was called Temperaunce, The lydy chamberlayne named Fidelitie, And the hye stewarde Liberalitie. There sate dame Doctrine, that lady gent, Whiche called me unto her presence, For to knowe al the whole entent Of my comyng unto her excellence. Madame, I sayde, to learn...
Page 42 - Platonic wisdom, tro^ita, or apiTrj, and a sight of her in her native beauty constitutes the happy ending of the many struggles and perplexities that the Red Cross Knight experiences in his pursuit of holiness. The identification of Una with the Platonic idea of truth or wisdom is not merely a matter of inference left for the reader to draw; for Spenser himself is careful to inform us of the true nature of the part she plays in his allegory. Una is presented as teaching the satyrs...
Page 61 - ... al orest u sis repaires est ; la met une pucele hors de sein sa mamele, e par odurement monosceros la sent ; dune vent a la pucele, si baiset sa mamele, en sun devant se dort, issi vent a sa mort ; li hom survent atant, ki 1'ocit en dormant, u trestut vif le prent, si fait puis sun talent, grant chose signefie, ne larei nel vus die. Monosceros griu est, en franceis...
Page 29 - ... In the mouthe Mars; and in his ryght wynge Was splendent Phebus with his golden beames; And in his breast there was replendishyng The shinyng Venus, with depured streames, That all about did cast her fyry leames; In his left wynge Mercury; and above his waste Was horned Dyane, her opposition past. My name, quod he, is in division; As tyme was, tyme is, and the tyme future: I marveyle muche of the presumption Of the dame Fame so puttyng in ure Thy great prayse, saiyng it shall endure For to be...

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