Milton's Arcades and ComusUniversity Press, 1891 - 208 pages |
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Page xvi
... Lawes , gentleman of the King's Chappel , and one of His Majesties private Musick . -Baccare frontem Cingite , ne vati noceat mala lingua futuro . ' VIRGIL , Eclog . 7 . Printed and publish'd according to Order . London , Printed by ...
... Lawes , gentleman of the King's Chappel , and one of His Majesties private Musick . -Baccare frontem Cingite , ne vati noceat mala lingua futuro . ' VIRGIL , Eclog . 7 . Printed and publish'd according to Order . London , Printed by ...
Page xxx
... Lawes . Why Milton , an unknown writer hidden away in a nook of Buckinghamshire , who hitherto had not published a single line , was asked to compose the play , is a matter of conjecture ; though , happily , of conjec- ture not far ...
... Lawes . Why Milton , an unknown writer hidden away in a nook of Buckinghamshire , who hitherto had not published a single line , was asked to compose the play , is a matter of conjecture ; though , happily , of conjec- ture not far ...
Page xxxi
... Lawes . He applied to Milton for the libretto . This was probably a repetition of what had occurred in the case of Arcades . The younger members of the Bridge- water family had turned to their musical instructor for assist- ance . It is ...
... Lawes . He applied to Milton for the libretto . This was probably a repetition of what had occurred in the case of Arcades . The younger members of the Bridge- water family had turned to their musical instructor for assist- ance . It is ...
Page xxxii
... Lawes being music - master of the Bridgewater family was asked to furnish a Masque , and that as a friend of Milton he applied to the latter for help . With the Puritan Milton of later years who in Paradise Lost IV . 764 , decried ...
... Lawes being music - master of the Bridgewater family was asked to furnish a Masque , and that as a friend of Milton he applied to the latter for help . With the Puritan Milton of later years who in Paradise Lost IV . 764 , decried ...
Page xxxiii
... Lawes ' friends evidently approved of it . Some were present in the Hall at Ludlow Castle on that September evening ; others , perhaps , heard the songs after- wards sung by Lawes himself or his pupils . They realised that there was in ...
... Lawes ' friends evidently approved of it . Some were present in the Hall at Ludlow Castle on that September evening ; others , perhaps , heard the songs after- wards sung by Lawes himself or his pupils . They realised that there was in ...
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Page 98 - For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires: The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.
Page 112 - How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year ! My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th.
Page 134 - But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
Page 5 - I was all ear, !(« And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of Death.
Page viii - I was confirmed in this opinion that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things ; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy.
Page 13 - There is a gentle Nymph not far from hence, That with moist curb sways the smooth Severn stream : Sabrina is her name, a virgin pure ; Whilom she was the daughter of Locrine, That had the sceptre from his father Brute. She, guiltless damsel, flying the mad pursuit Of her enraged stepdame Guendolen, Commended her fair innocence to the flood That stayed her flight with his cross-flowing course. The water-nymphs, that in the bottom played, Held up their pearled wrists, and took her in, Bearing her straight...
Page 77 - Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.
Page lxx - Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night ? I did not err, there does a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night, And casts a gleam over this tufted grove.
Page lxxiii - I know each lane, and every alley green, Dingle, or bushy dell, of this wild wood, And every bosky bourn from side to side...
Page 165 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...