Edmund Spenser цитаты

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„И он бежал, взор обратив назад,
Как будто вёл за ним погоню его же страх.“

„Жена Улисса ткала пелену,
Но распускала свой дневной урок,
Как только в доме отойдут ко сну,
И новой свадьбы отдаляла срок. Так, видя, что от страсти изнемог
И сети я плету неутомимо,
Любимая всегда найдет предлог,
Чтоб труд мой долгий сделать струйкой дыма.“

„Ничто под солнцем взор влюбленный мой
Не веселит, когда любимой нет,
Когда не вижу пред собою той,
Чьей прелестью пленен весь божий свет. Она сокрылась — и во мраке я,
Подобьем смерти стала жизнь моя.“

„Любимая в театре мировом
На все бесстрастно устремляет взгляд.
Участвую в спектакле я любом,
Меняя облики на разный лад. Найдя на свете повод для отрад,
Я мишуру комедии беру,
Когда же горести отяготят,
Я делаю трагедией игру.“

“I learned have, not to despise,
What ever thing seemes small in common eyes.”

“Roses red and violets blew,
And all the sweetest flowres that in the forrest grew.”

“Death slue not him, but he made death his ladder to the skies.”

“Into the woods thenceforth in hast she went,
To seeke for hearbes, that mote him remedy;
For she of hearbes had great intendiment,
Taught of the Nymphe, which from her infancy
Her nourced had in trew Nobility:
There, whether it divine Tobacco were,
Or Panachaea, or Polygony,
She found, and brought it to her patient deare
Who al this while lay bleeding out his hart-bloud neare.”

“Is not short paine well borne, that brings long ease,
And layes the soul to sleepe in quiet grave?
Sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas,
Ease after warre, death after life does greatly please.”

“A Gentle Knight was pricking on the plaine.”

“Calm was the day, and through the trembling air
Sweet-breathing Zephyrus did softly play—
A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay
Hot Titan's beams, which then did glister fair”

“With that I saw two swans of goodly hue
Come softly swimming down along the Lee:
Two fairer birds I yet did never see;
The snow which doth the top of Pindus strow
Did never whiter show,
Nor Jove himself, when he a swan would be
For love of Leda, whiter did appear”

“But Justice, though her dome [doom] she doe prolong,
Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.”

“Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled,
On Fames eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.”

“A monster, which the Blatant beast men call,
A dreadfull feend of gods and men ydrad.”

“Who will not mercie unto others show,
How can he mercy ever hope to have?”

“The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
For a man by nothing is so well bewrayd,
As by his manners.”

“Entire affection hateth nicer hands.”

“Through thicke and thin, both over banke and bush
In hope her to attaine by hooke or crooke.”

“Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.”

“For all that faire is, is by nature good;
That is a signe to know the gentle blood.”

“O happy earth,
Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread!”

“As the great eye of heaven, shyned bright,
And made a sunshine in the shady place.”

“What more felicitie can fall to creature
Than to enjoy delight with libertie,
And to be lord of all the workes of Nature,
To raine in th' aire from earth to highest skie,
To feed on flowres and weeds of glorious feature.”

“For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,
And by eternall doome of Fate's decree,
Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.”

“That darksome cave they enter, where they find
That cursed man, low sitting on the ground,
Musing full sadly in his sullein mind.”