Milton's Arcades and ComusUniversity Press, 1891 - 208 pages |
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Page xxvi
... fair to suppose that only a brief space of time separated the two poems . Probably Arcades was the earlier in each of Milton's editions of his minor works it precedes Comus ; and it shows , so far as its fragmentary state permits us to ...
... fair to suppose that only a brief space of time separated the two poems . Probably Arcades was the earlier in each of Milton's editions of his minor works it precedes Comus ; and it shows , so far as its fragmentary state permits us to ...
Page xli
... fair critic of the poet of Puritanism . Milton was the pride of English Liberalism , and Toryism found its champion in Johnson : hence politi- cal antagonism supplied the second motive of the latter's prejudice . Johnson , therefore ...
... fair critic of the poet of Puritanism . Milton was the pride of English Liberalism , and Toryism found its champion in Johnson : hence politi- cal antagonism supplied the second motive of the latter's prejudice . Johnson , therefore ...
Page xliii
... Fair , " " Back , Shepherds , " and " Now my task . " These ( with the exception of " Sweet Echo " ) are also printed in Dr Rimbault's Ancient Vocal Music of England , no . 8 . The adaptation of the Masque was made by the Rev. John ...
... Fair , " " Back , Shepherds , " and " Now my task . " These ( with the exception of " Sweet Echo " ) are also printed in Dr Rimbault's Ancient Vocal Music of England , no . 8 . The adaptation of the Masque was made by the Rev. John ...
Page xlvi
... fair and of good report ; and when he speaks of purity it is often in the language , and always in the spirit , of Saint Paul . " The sublime notion and high mystery " of a disciplined life is , as Masson says , " the Miltonic idea ...
... fair and of good report ; and when he speaks of purity it is often in the language , and always in the spirit , of Saint Paul . " The sublime notion and high mystery " of a disciplined life is , as Masson says , " the Miltonic idea ...
Page xlvii
... fair to reproduce the very just remark with which his criticism of the Masque commenced . He said : “ The greatest of Milton's 1 Cf. Green's remark , " The historic interest of Milton's Comus lies in its forming part of a protest made ...
... fair to reproduce the very just remark with which his criticism of the Masque commenced . He said : “ The greatest of Milton's 1 Cf. Green's remark , " The historic interest of Milton's Comus lies in its forming part of a protest made ...
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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.
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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.
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