Comus

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Moffatt and Paige, 1898 - 47 pages

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Page 2 - of Dryden:— *' Three poets in three distant ages born: Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of nature could no farther go. To make a third, she joined the former two.
Page 39 - SONG. Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting 860 Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair; Listen for dear honor's sake, Goddess of the silver lake, 865 Listen and save. Listen and appear to us In name of great Oceanus,
Page 41 - That in the channel strays; 895 Whilst from off the waters fleet, Thus I set my printless feet O'er the cowslip's velvet head, That bends not as I tread; Gentle Swain, at thy request 900 I am here. SP. Goddess dear, We implore thy pow'rful hand To undo the charmed band Of true virgin here
Page 45 - And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals, that would follow me. Love Virtue, she alone is free; She can teach ye how to climb 1020 Higher than the sphery chime: Or, if Virtue feeble were,
Page 24 - 465 Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being. Such are those thick and gloomy shadows damp 470 Oft seen in charnel vaults, and sepulchres, Ling'ring and sitting by a
Page 14 - pure-ey'd Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering Angel, girt with golden wings, And thou, unblemish'd form of Chastity! 215 1 see ye visibly, and now believe That he, the Supreme Good, t' whom all things ill Are but as slavish officers of vengeance, Would send a glist'ring guardian, if need were, To keep my life and
Page 8 - their apparel glistering; they come in making a riotous and unruly noise, with torches in their hands. COMUS. The star that bids the shepherd fold, Now the top of heaven doth hold; And the gilded car of day 95 His glowing axle doth allay In the steep Atlantic stream;
Page 25 - How charming is divine philosophy I Not harsh, and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns. 1
Page 21 - To save her blossoms, and defend her fruit From the rash hand of bold incontinence. * You may as well spread out the unsunn'd heaps Of miser's treasure by an outlaw's den, And tell me it is safe, as bid me hope 400 Danger will wink on opportunity, And let a single helpless maiden pass
Page 4 - Attendant SPIRIT descends or enters. BEFORE the starry threshold of Jove's court My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live inspher'd In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot, 5

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