 Then came old January, wrapped well In many weeds to keep the cold away; Yet did he quake and quiver, like to quell, And blowe his nayles to warme them if he may; For they were numbd with holding all the day An hatchet keene, with which he felled wood...  Spenser's Faerie Queene - 第 319 頁Edmund Spenser 著 - 1758完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | John Ruskin - 2013 - 453 頁
...generally reserved for February. Spenser, however, gives the same symbol as that on St. Mark's : " Numbd with holding all the day An hatchet keene, with which he felled wood." His sign, Aquarius, is obscurely indicated in the archivolt by some wavy lines representing water,... | |
 | William Martin - 1852 - 434 頁
...he quake and quiver like to quail, And blows his nayles to warm them if he may, For they were numbed with holding all the day An hatchet keene with which he felled wood, And from the trees did lop the needlesse spray."—SPENSER. 0 sayeth the old poet Spenser, and he sayeth 'well; and in his spirit... | |
 | 1876 - 1022 頁
...weeds to keep the cold away; Yet did he quake and quiver like to quell, And blow his nails to warm them if he may; For they were numb'd with holding all the day An hatchet keen, with which he felled wood And from the trees did lop the needless spray." Verstegan tells us... | |
 | Robert William Dale, James Guinness Rogers - 1877 - 772 頁
...personification of January: — " Came old January, wrapped well In many weeds to keep the cold away ; Yet did he quake and quiver like to quell And blowe his nayles to warm them if he may; For they were numbed with holding all the day An hatchet keene, with which he... | |
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