Milton's Arcades and ComusUniversity Press, 1891 - 208 pages |
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Page xiv
... sounds forth a Cassandra - cry of warning against the folly of his generation . About Lycidas there rests a certain pathos , in that it is the final utterance of Milton's lyric genius . Here he reaches , in Mr Mark Pattison's words ...
... sounds forth a Cassandra - cry of warning against the folly of his generation . About Lycidas there rests a certain pathos , in that it is the final utterance of Milton's lyric genius . Here he reaches , in Mr Mark Pattison's words ...
Page xxiv
... sounds which Lord Tennyson has celebrated and alone in his time equalled . In 1673 Milton brought out a reprint of the 1645 edition of Close of Mil his Poems , adding most of the sonnets1 written in ton's life . the interval . The last ...
... sounds which Lord Tennyson has celebrated and alone in his time equalled . In 1673 Milton brought out a reprint of the 1645 edition of Close of Mil his Poems , adding most of the sonnets1 written in ton's life . the interval . The last ...
Page xxvi
... sounds , so that it is hard to resist the impression that many touches in each were sug- gested by the quiet woodland scenery of Horton . It will be well therefore and safe to accept with Professor Masson the year 1633 . The title of ...
... sounds , so that it is hard to resist the impression that many touches in each were sug- gested by the quiet woodland scenery of Horton . It will be well therefore and safe to accept with Professor Masson the year 1633 . The title of ...
Page lii
... sound meats of the world . " So much therefore is clear : the Masque was borrowed from Italy2 . 1 Shakspere's Predecessors , p . 320. Mr Symonds gives an extremely interesting sketch of the history of the Masque , pp . 317-362 . The ...
... sound meats of the world . " So much therefore is clear : the Masque was borrowed from Italy2 . 1 Shakspere's Predecessors , p . 320. Mr Symonds gives an extremely interesting sketch of the history of the Masque , pp . 317-362 . The ...
Page liii
... this was the time when the Masque flourished best . See , however , p . lxxii . 2 Civilisation of the Renascence , English Version , p . 317 et seq . L sound of music , and sang madrigals . This was THE ENGLISH MASQUE . liii.
... this was the time when the Masque flourished best . See , however , p . lxxii . 2 Civilisation of the Renascence , English Version , p . 317 et seq . L sound of music , and sang madrigals . This was THE ENGLISH MASQUE . liii.
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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...