10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COUNTERFEISANCE»
Discover the use of
counterfeisance in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
counterfeisance and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Spenser Encyclopedia
Imitating,in eithera favorable or a pejorative sense, is thus a kindof feigning
orcounterfeiting; and Spenser'sterminology in most ofthe passages cited above(
counter, counterfet, counterfeisance, lively, like, semblance) is reminiscent of ...
2
Sixteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology
... Which with the Prince of Darkness fell somewhile From heaven's bliss and
everlasting rest; Him needed not instruct which way were best Himself to fashion
likest Florimell, Ne how to speak, ne how to use his gest, For he in
counterfeisance ...
3
The Works of Shakespeare ...
... wont to wait upon my train, Fine Counterfeisance and unhurtful Sport, Delight
and Laughter, deck'd in seemly sort " And he, the man whom Nature's self had
made, To mock herself, and Truth to imitate, With kindly counter under mimic
shade, ...
William Shakespeare, 1883
4
The Works of Mr. Edmund Spenser: In Six Volumes : with a ...
... Bliss and everlasling Resl; r Him needed not instrufl, which way were bell
Himself to fashion likesl: Florimel, Ne how to speak, ne how to use his Gefl: For,
he in Counterfeisance did excel ; And all the Wiles of Womens Wit knew passing
well.
Edmund Spenser, John Hughes, Theodore Bathurst, 1715
5
A Dictionary of the English Language: Abridged from H.J. ...
Sherwood. CO'UN ERFEITLY. ad. Falsely; fictitiously. S/zak¥enre. COUN
ERFEIRMENT. n. s. Ferment opposed tn ferment. Addison. COUNTERFEISANCE
. n. s. [conh-efaa'sance, The act of counterfeiting; forgery. Sperm. CO!
NTERFORT. u..r.
Samuel Johnson, Alexander Chalmers, 1853
6
The British Quarterly Review
... Greene, Marlowe, and others, were urging objection to (and, as we shall see,
Spenser's friend, and their foe, Gabriel Harvey, was encouraging and defending)
' Our Pleasant Willy,' to whom Thalia was indebted for—' Fine Counterfeisance, ...
7
Three Centuries of English Poetry: Being Selections from ...
... the fond Ape, himself uprearing high Upon his tiptoe, stalketh stately by, As if
he were some great Magnifico, And boldly doth amongst the boldest go ; And his
man Reynold, with fine counterfeisance, Supports his credit and his countenance
.
Him needed not instruct, which way were best Himfelfe to fa-shion likest Florz'
mell, Ne how to speake, ne how to vse his gest, For he in counterfeisance did
excell, And all the wyles of wemens wits knew passing well. Him shaped thus,
she ...
Edmund Spenser, Alexander Balloch Grosart, 1882
9
The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature
Inside the dummy sits a wicked sprite, a male demon who fell from heaven with
Satan, and who 'in counterfeisance did excell, / And all the wyles of wemens wits
knew passing well'. Inside this woman thing, over which the witch's son will ...
10
The Works of Shakespeare: Life of Shakespeare. Historical ...
... And with vain toys the vulgar entertain ; But me have banished, with all the rest
That whilom wont to wait upon my train, Fine Counterfeisance and unhurtful Sport
, Delight and Laughter, deck'd in seemly sort. " And he, the man whom Nature's ...
William Shakespeare, Henry Norman Hudson, 1881
