Bower of Bliss
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When you are introduced to Armida in the Bower of Bliss, it is by warriors who come to take her lover away to battle.
From Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 2 by Torquato Tasso
Not he who drew Acrasia's Bower of Bliss And Phædria's happy isle could picture this.
From Gawayne and the Green Knight A Fairy Tale by Charlton Miner Lewis
The following scenes in the Bower of Bliss were plainly suggested by the Palace of Circe, in the Odyssey; but where Homer is direct, simple, forceful, Spenser revels in luxuriant details.
From Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived by William Joseph Long
Spenser says she is an enchantress living in the "Bower of Bliss," in "Wandering Island."
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
But beyond is Acrasia's Bower of Bliss, a mediaeval rendering of what Spenser hereafter so divinely sung in the second book of the Faerie Queene.
From The Story of Florence by Edmund G. Gardner
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