"Acrasy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... carvings of an antique door. This he swung open; and the knight passed through Into a garden, fresh with summer dew! A lady's bower in Fairyland! What pen Could make that strange enchantment live again? Not he who drew Acrasia's Bower of Bliss And Phaedria's happy isle could picture this. That sweet-souled Puritan discerned too well The serpent's coil behind the witch's spell; And he who saw—when the dark veil was torn— The rose of Paradise without the thorn, (Sublimest ...
— Gawayne And The Green Knight - A Fairy Tale • Charlton Miner Lewis
... proceed, discovers a wounded lady and a dead knight. Close beside the lady is a young babe, whose innocent hands are dabbling in his parent's blood. On questioning the woman, Sir Guyon learns that her husband has been bewitched by Acrasia,—or Pleasure,—who bore him off to the Bower of Bliss, a place where she detains her captives, feeding them on sweets until their manly courage is gone. On learning her husband had fallen into the power of this enchantress, the lady had sought the Bower of Bliss and by dint of wifely devotion had ...
— The Book of the Epic • Helene A. Guerber
... Spenser's "Faerie Queene," the impersonation of temperance and self-control; he subdued the sorceress Acrasia (i. e. intemperance), and was the destroyer of ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood |
