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  • In the early fragment "Calidore," the hero -- who gets his name from

    A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 1886

  • I always think of, like, Spenser's the Faerie Queene, that kind of pure allegory where the heroes represent noble virtues Calidore - The Knight of Courtesy and the villains are named Faithlessness and Falsehood.

    Finished Death Note: Reporting Back. | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2007

  • The mines and factories on Jurgen and Koshchei, on Britomart and Calidore, on Panurge and the moons of Pantagruel closed, and the factory workers went away.

    The Cosmic Computer H. Beam Piper 1934

  • Just as Calidore rides up, the youth strikes down his opponent, a deed of violence justified by the maiden, who explains how the man on horseback was ill treating her when the youth came to her rescue.

    The Book of the Epic 1894

  • All the wealth thus obtained is bestowed upon Coridon to indemnify him for the loss of Pastorella, who accompanies her true love Calidore during the rest of his journeys.

    The Book of the Epic 1894

  • Calidore and his squire have not journeyed far before they perceive a knight and his lady sporting in the shade.

    The Book of the Epic 1894

  • To reward the bravery of Calidore, who has saved her from death,

    The Book of the Epic 1894

  • Wondering how such a loss could have befallen them, Calidore learns that knight and lady, being secretly married, entrusted their child to a handmaiden, ordering her to provide for its safety in some way, as it was impossible they should acknowledge its existence then.

    The Book of the Epic 1894

  • While Pastorella is thus happy in the company of her parents, Calidore overtakes the Blatant Beast, and leads it safely muzzled through admiring throngs to Gloriana's feet.

    The Book of the Epic 1894

  • When Artegall reports having recently met that thousand-tongued monster, Calidore spurs off, and soon sees a squire bound to a tree.

    The Book of the Epic 1894

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