“Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.”
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“How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.”
Source: The Works of Edmund Spenser ...
“Man's wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.”
Source: The works of Edmund Spenser, with notes by H.J. Todd
Source: Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves: Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene
Source: The poetical works of Edmund Spenser: With memoir and critical dissertations
Source: Books I and II of the Faerie queene: the mutability cantos, and selections from the minor poetry
“The man whom nature's self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.”
Source: The poetical works of Edmund Spenser: With memoir and critical dissertations
Source: The Works of Edmund Spenser: With a Selection of Notes from Various Commentators; and a Glossarial Index: to which is Prefixed, Some Account of the Life of Spenser
“Why then should witless man so much misweene That nothing is but that which he hath seene?”
Source: The Works of Edmund Spenser: With Observations of His Life and Writings
Source: The Works of Mr. Edmund Spenser: In Six Volumes : with a Glossary Explaining the Old and Obscure Words
“For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.”
Source: The poetical works of Edmund Spenser: With memoir and critical dissertations