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... Virtue ( 1619 ) . Comus is a character in that Masque and described as " The founder of taste For fresh meats , or powdered , or pickle , or paste ; Devourer of boiled , baked , roasted or sod ; An emptier of cups . " Obviously this ...
... Virtue ( 1619 ) . Comus is a character in that Masque and described as " The founder of taste For fresh meats , or powdered , or pickle , or paste ; Devourer of boiled , baked , roasted or sod ; An emptier of cups . " Obviously this ...
Page xxxv
... virtue " of abstinence . As a youth he de- scribed thus , in a strain of classical allusion , the obli- gations of those who would touch the highest reaches of poetic art : " But they , who demi - gods and heroes praise , And feats ...
... virtue " of abstinence . As a youth he de- scribed thus , in a strain of classical allusion , the obli- gations of those who would touch the highest reaches of poetic art : " But they , who demi - gods and heroes praise , And feats ...
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... Virtue gives , After this mortal change , to her true servants Amongst the enthroned gods on sainted seats . Yet some there be that by due steps aspire To lay their just hands on that golden key That opes the palace of eternity . To ...
... Virtue gives , After this mortal change , to her true servants Amongst the enthroned gods on sainted seats . Yet some there be that by due steps aspire To lay their just hands on that golden key That opes the palace of eternity . To ...
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... virtue of this magic dust , I shall appear some harmless villager , Whom thrift keeps up about his country gear . But here she comes ; I fairly step aside , And hearken , if I may her business hear . The LADY enters . 160 Lady . This ...
... virtue of this magic dust , I shall appear some harmless villager , Whom thrift keeps up about his country gear . But here she comes ; I fairly step aside , And hearken , if I may her business hear . The LADY enters . 160 Lady . This ...
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... Virtue could see to do what Virtue would By her own radiant light , though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk . And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude , Where , with her best nurse , Contemplation , She plumes her ...
... Virtue could see to do what Virtue would By her own radiant light , though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk . And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude , Where , with her best nurse , Contemplation , She plumes her ...
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Adonis Æneid allusion beautiful Ben Jonson blank verse called Cambridge character charm chastity Circe classical Comus dance daughter dramatic Earl of Bridgewater earth Echo Elder Brother Elizabethan enchanted English epithet Estrildis evil eyes Faerie Queene fair favourite genius Germ goddess gods hath Heaven hence Henry Wotton Homer honour Il Penseroso influence Italy Jonson King L'Allegro Lady Latin Lawes's legend Locrine Lord Lord Brackley Ludlow Castle Lycidas lyric Mark Pattison Masque Masson metaphor Midsummer-Night's Dream Milton nature night noun nymph Odyssey original Paradise Lost passage pastoral Penseroso perhaps phrase piece pleasure poem poet poetic poetry probably Puritanism reference rhyme rhythm river Sabrina Sabrina fair Samson Agonistes says scene sense Shakespeare shepherd Sir Henry song Sonnet soul Spenser Spirit stage-direction story sweet syllable Tempest Tennyson thou thought Thyrsis verb virgin Virtue wood word writers youth