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... Cyriack Skinner Sonnet XXII . To the Same · Sonnet XXIII . To the Memory of his Second PAGE 216 216 217 217 218 218 219 Wife Translations : - The Fifth Ode of Horace , Lib . I. 220 Nine of the Psalms done into Metre , 1648 221 ( Psalms ...
... Cyriack Skinner Sonnet XXII . To the Same · Sonnet XXIII . To the Memory of his Second PAGE 216 216 217 217 218 218 219 Wife Translations : - The Fifth Ode of Horace , Lib . I. 220 Nine of the Psalms done into Metre , 1648 221 ( Psalms ...
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... Cyriack Skinner ( Sonnet XXI . ) Sonnet to the Same ( Sonnet XXII . ) 1655 . Sonnet to the memory of his Second Wife ( Sonnet XXIII . ) 1658 . A fact of special interest , for which there is very good authority , is that the actual ...
... Cyriack Skinner ( Sonnet XXI . ) Sonnet to the Same ( Sonnet XXII . ) 1655 . Sonnet to the memory of his Second Wife ( Sonnet XXIII . ) 1658 . A fact of special interest , for which there is very good authority , is that the actual ...
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... Cyriack Skinner , and the high - minded Lady Ranelagh , sister of Robert Boyle , who had been among his most frequent visitors in the house in Petty France , found their way occasionally to Jewin Street . Dr. Paget , a physician of that ...
... Cyriack Skinner , and the high - minded Lady Ranelagh , sister of Robert Boyle , who had been among his most frequent visitors in the house in Petty France , found their way occasionally to Jewin Street . Dr. Paget , a physician of that ...
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... Cyriack Skinner , and the ever - faithful Andrew Marvell . Of Milton's habits , in his house near Bunhill Fields , through the last ten years of his life , we have pretty distinct accounts from various persons , as follows : - He used ...
... Cyriack Skinner , and the ever - faithful Andrew Marvell . Of Milton's habits , in his house near Bunhill Fields , through the last ten years of his life , we have pretty distinct accounts from various persons , as follows : - He used ...
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... young Cambridge man , Daniel Skinner , a relative of his friend Cyriack . They were conveyed by Skinner to Amsterdam for publication by Daniel Elzevir ; but , the English Government having heard of them , lxvi MEMOIR OF MILTON .
... young Cambridge man , Daniel Skinner , a relative of his friend Cyriack . They were conveyed by Skinner to Amsterdam for publication by Daniel Elzevir ; but , the English Government having heard of them , lxvi MEMOIR OF MILTON .
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Page 200 - the famous Druids, lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream. Ay me ! I fondly dream " Had ye been there," ... for what could that have done? What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself, for her enchanting son, Whom universal nature did lament, 60
Page 182 - To a degenerate and degraded state. Sec. Bro. How charming is divine Philosophy ! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns. Eld. Bro. List! list! I hear
Page 143 - SONG ON MAY MORNING. Now the bright morning-star, Day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire ! Woods and groves are of thy dressing ; Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing.
Page 140 - xxv. He feels from Juda's land The dreaded Infant's hand ; The rays of Bethlehem blind his dusky eyn ; Nor all the gods beside Longer dare abide, Not Typhon huge ending in snaky twine : Our Babe, to show his Godhead true, Can in his swaddling bands control the damned crew. 1
Page 155 - In fire, air, flood, or underground, Whose power hath a true consent With planet or with element. Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops ' line, Or the tale of Troy divine, 100 Or what (though rare) of later age Ennobled hath the buskined stage. But, O sad Virgin ! that thy power Might raise
Page 151 - junkets eat. She was pinched and pulled, she said ; And he, by Friar's lantern led, Tells how the drudging goblin sweat To earn his cream-bowl duly set, When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down, the lubber fiend,
Page 214 - Both spiritual power and civil, what each means, What severs each, thou hast learned, which few have done. The bounds of either sword to thee we owe : Therefore on thy firm hand Religion leans In peace, and reckons thee her eldest son. XVIII. ON THE LATE MASSACRE IN PIEDMONT.
Page 148 - and sights unholy! Find out some uncouth cell, Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night-raven sings ; There, under ebon shades and low-browed rocks, As ragged as thy locks, In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell. 10
Page 196 - All the swains that there abide With jigs and rural dance resort. We shall catch them at their sport, And our sudden coming there Will double all their mirth and cheer. Come, let us haste ; the stars grow high, But Night sits monarch yet in the mid sky. The Scene changes,
Page 199 - For we were nursed upon the self-same hill, Fed the same flock, by fountain, shade, and rill; Together both, ere the high lawns appeared Under the opening eyelids of the Morn, We drove a-field, and both together heard What time the grey-fly winds her sultry horn, Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night, Oft till the star that rose at evening bright 30 Toward heaven's