Bower of Bliss
Example Sentences
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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 Tasso, Torquato
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 Lewis, Charlton Miner
Her story is, that her man has been led astray by the Lady Acrasia, who leads many knights to her Bower of Bliss, and there makes them forget honor and knightly duty.
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 Long, William Joseph
Although still mourning the loss of his companion, the palmer, Sir Guyon decides to continue his quest for the Bower of Bliss.
From The Book of the Epic by Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline)
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 Gardner, Edmund G.
