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Page xv
... passages in Samson Agonistes must have been inspired by the same cause . 1 i.e. old style . The volume was entered on the registers of the Stationers ' Company under the date of October 6th , 1645 . It was published on Jan. 2 , 1646 ...
... passages in Samson Agonistes must have been inspired by the same cause . 1 i.e. old style . The volume was entered on the registers of the Stationers ' Company under the date of October 6th , 1645 . It was published on Jan. 2 , 1646 ...
Page xxviii
... passage where one is fain to believe that the Cambridge manuscript is right , and the printed copies 1 See p . 4 . 2 i.e. the Milton MSS . at Trinity College ; see p . xxii . wrong . This is line 553. Milton's blindness necessarily ...
... passage where one is fain to believe that the Cambridge manuscript is right , and the printed copies 1 See p . 4 . 2 i.e. the Milton MSS . at Trinity College ; see p . xxii . wrong . This is line 553. Milton's blindness necessarily ...
Page xxxiv
... significant omissions , made doubtless by Lawes , at the original performance . See notes on 195-225 , 737-755- One passage , 779-806 , was an addition . progress of the story ; and worse , it strikes xxxiv INTRODUCTION .
... significant omissions , made doubtless by Lawes , at the original performance . See notes on 195-225 , 737-755- One passage , 779-806 , was an addition . progress of the story ; and worse , it strikes xxxiv INTRODUCTION .
Page xxxviii
... passages , for the whole is golden . The entering address of Comus , the song ' Sweet Echo , ' the descriptive speech of the Spirit , and the magnificent eulogy of the ' sun - clad power of chastity , ' would be the most beautiful ...
... passages , for the whole is golden . The entering address of Comus , the song ' Sweet Echo , ' the descriptive speech of the Spirit , and the magnificent eulogy of the ' sun - clad power of chastity , ' would be the most beautiful ...
Page xl
... short ( ~ ) . In " scanning ” a passage it is better always to use the term " stress " or " accent " than " long syllable , " and the symbol ' , not - . If the whole poem were written in verse of this xl INTRODUCTION .
... short ( ~ ) . In " scanning ” a passage it is better always to use the term " stress " or " accent " than " long syllable , " and the symbol ' , not - . If the whole poem were written in verse of this xl INTRODUCTION .
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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