Some baser metall, which commend he will Unto the vulgar for good gold insted, He much more goodly glosse thereon doth shed To hide his falshood, then if it were trew : So hard this Idole was to be ared, That Florimell herselfe in all mens vew She seem'd... Adonia, a Desultory Story - Seite 5von Adonia - 1801Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Edmund Spenser - 1596 - 738 Seiten
...guilefull goldsmith that by secret skill With golden. foyle doth finely over-spred Seine baser metall, which commend he will Unto the vulgar for good gold insted, He much more goodly glosse thereon doth shed To hide his falshood, then if it were trew. So hard this idole l was to be... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 600 Seiten
...faire as shee. As guilefull goldsmith that by secret skill With golden foyle doth finely over-spred Some baser metal', which commend he will Unto the vulgar for good gold insted, He much more goodly glosse thereon doth sherl To hide his falshood, then if it were trew : So hard this idole was to be... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 610 Seiten
...faire as she«. As guileful! goldsmith that by secret skill With golden foyle doth finely over-spred Some baser metal), which commend he will Unto the vulgar for good gold insted, He much rnorc cmdly flösse thereon dotli shetl To hide his falshood, then if it were trew : So hard this idole... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 312 Seiten
...guilefull goldsmith that by secret skill With golden foyle doth finely over-spred Some baser metall, which commend he will Unto the vulgar for good gold insted, He much more goodly glosse thereon doth shed To hide his falshood, then if it were trew : So hard this Idole was to be... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 428 Seiten
...herald of the sea 80 85 79. Nor in the glist'ring foil] Spenser, Faery Queen, b. iv. <ant. v. st. 15. As guileful goldsmith that by secret skill With golden foil doth finely overspread Some baser metal, &c. 85. 0 fountain Arethuse, &c.] Now Phoebus, whose strain was of a higher mood, has done speaking,... | |
| Edmund Spenser - 1825 - 410 Seiten
...guilefull goldsmith that by secret skill With golden foyle doth finely over-spred Some baser metall, which commend he will Unto the vulgar for good gold insted, He much more goodly glosse thereon doth shed To hide his falshood, then if it were trew : So hard this Idole was to be... | |
| Robert Southey - 1831 - 1038 Seiten
...guilefull goldsmith that by secret skill With golden foyle doth finely over-spred Some baser metall, which commend he will Unto the vulgar for good gold insted, He much more goodly glosse thereon doth shed To hide his falshood, then if it were trew : So hard this idole was to be... | |
| Edmund Spenser - 1843 - 388 Seiten
...guilefull goldsmith that by secret skill With golden foyle doth finely over-spred Some baser metall, which commend he will Unto the vulgar for good gold insted, He much more goodly glosse thereon doth shed To hide his falshood, then if it were trew : So hard this idole was to be... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 276 Seiten
...bear : Yet all were glad there Florimel to see ; Yet thought that Florimel was not so fair as she. As guileful goldsmith that by secret skill With golden...which commend he will Unto the vulgar for good gold instead, He much more goodly gloss thereon doth shed To hide his falsehood, that if it were true :... | |
| Drawing-room sibyl - 1855 - 464 Seiten
...priest, pious, and just and true ; Religious, learned. Martin F. Tvpper. 113 A guileful goldsmith, who, by secret skill, With golden foil doth finely overspread...which commend he will Unto the vulgar, for good gold instead. Spenser. 114 Author of works whereof — tho' not in Dutch, The public little knows — the... | |
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