ComusMoffatt and Paige, 1898 - 47 pages |
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1000 In slumber 30 cents 985 The Graces Assyrian queen.-Venus brothers charms chastity Circe Cloth comæ Comus Condensed cornua lunæ Crisped shades.-The foliage dance daughters deep wound 1000 Dog of Flanders ears be true embroider or surround Emerson's enchanter English Fairy fam'd son advanc'd GEORGE HOWLAND Goddess golden apples half of Sesame Hawthorne's Heav'n Hence Hesperides Hesperus Iliad Irving's JAMES PARTON JOHN MILTON King Philip's War Lady Locrine Longfellow's Ludlow Castle Ludlow town Macaulay's Essay Mailing price Milton moon.-The Latin phrase mortal night numbers Nymph Paradise Lost phrase is cornua Poems poets Purfled queen refers never sets roll or curve Ruskin's Sabrina Scott's Selected sensual shades Sheen.-Brightness shepherd sloping sky song sons of Vulcan soul spangled sheen 978 spheres is heard-Heaven Sphery chime.-The place SPIR Spirit refers never stars swain syllable Tennyson's thou thread filum Twice-Told Tales virgin virtue wand'ring labors long Welkin.-To welk word
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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