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Page xxxii
... Sabrina . Milton's in- debtedness to Fletcher . Sabrina , whose intervention frees the im- prisoned lady and brings the Masque to a happy close . The source of this legend , which had been handled by other poets , was the History of ...
... Sabrina . Milton's in- debtedness to Fletcher . Sabrina , whose intervention frees the im- prisoned lady and brings the Masque to a happy close . The source of this legend , which had been handled by other poets , was the History of ...
Page xxxiii
... Sabrina . Speaking briefly we may say that the last two hundred lines of Comus - the disenchantment scene - betray in the conception of the nymph Sabrina , in the incidents , and the lyric movement , the spell which Fletcher's genius ...
... Sabrina . Speaking briefly we may say that the last two hundred lines of Comus - the disenchantment scene - betray in the conception of the nymph Sabrina , in the incidents , and the lyric movement , the spell which Fletcher's genius ...
Page xxxviii
... Sabrina fair ' did not come later , and were not sustained before and after , for nearly two hundred lines of pure nectar . " It was a happy inspiration which reserved the rhymed parts mainly for the close , where they form a kind of ...
... Sabrina fair ' did not come later , and were not sustained before and after , for nearly two hundred lines of pure nectar . " It was a happy inspiration which reserved the rhymed parts mainly for the close , where they form a kind of ...
Page xxxix
... Sabrina fair , " " Back Shep- herds " and " Now my task . " In the last century most of Milton's minor poems were made to supply libretti for contemporary musicians . Handel set L'Allegro and Il Penseroso ( 1740 ) to music , and ...
... Sabrina fair , " " Back Shep- herds " and " Now my task . " In the last century most of Milton's minor poems were made to supply libretti for contemporary musicians . Handel set L'Allegro and Il Penseroso ( 1740 ) to music , and ...
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... . THE LADY . FIRST BROTHER . SECOND BROTHER . SABRINA , the Nymph . The Chief Persons which presented were : - The Lord Brackley ; Mr Thomas Egerton , his Brother ; The Lady Alice Egerton . COMUS . The first Scene discovers a wild wood . 6.
... . THE LADY . FIRST BROTHER . SECOND BROTHER . SABRINA , the Nymph . The Chief Persons which presented were : - The Lord Brackley ; Mr Thomas Egerton , his Brother ; The Lady Alice Egerton . COMUS . The first Scene discovers a wild wood . 6.
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