ComusCambridge University Press, 1912 - 143 pages |
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... Earth , and with low - thoughted care , Confined and pestered in this pinfold here , Strive to keep up a frail and feverish being , Unmindful of the crown that Virtue gives , After this mortal change , to her true servants Amongst the ...
... Earth , and with low - thoughted care , Confined and pestered in this pinfold here , Strive to keep up a frail and feverish being , Unmindful of the crown that Virtue gives , After this mortal change , to her true servants Amongst the ...
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... earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment ? Sure something holy lodges in that breast , And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence . How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence ...
... earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment ? Sure something holy lodges in that breast , And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence . How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence ...
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... earth's base built on stubble . But come , let's on ! Against the opposing will and arm of Heaven May never this just sword be lifted up ; But , for that damned magician , let him be girt With all the griesly legions that troop Under ...
... earth's base built on stubble . But come , let's on ! Against the opposing will and arm of Heaven May never this just sword be lifted up ; But , for that damned magician , let him be girt With all the griesly legions that troop Under ...
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... earth with odours , fruits , and flocks Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable , But all to please and sate the curious taste ? And set to work millions of spinning worms , 710 That in their green shops weave the smooth - haired silk ...
... earth with odours , fruits , and flocks Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable , But all to please and sate the curious taste ? And set to work millions of spinning worms , 710 That in their green shops weave the smooth - haired silk ...
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... Earth would lend her nerves , and shake , Till all thy magic structures , reared so high , Were shattered into heaps o'er thy false head . Comus . She fables not . I feel that I do fear 800 Her words set off by some superior power ; And ...
... Earth would lend her nerves , and shake , Till all thy magic structures , reared so high , Were shattered into heaps o'er thy false head . Comus . She fables not . I feel that I do fear 800 Her words set off by some superior power ; And ...
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Adonis Æneid allusion Ben Jonson blank verse called Cambridge character charmed chastity Circe classical Comus crown dance daughter Earl of Bridgewater Echo Elder Brother Elizabethan enchanted English epithet Estrildis evil eyes Faerie Queene fair favourite Germ Glossary 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 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 Shepheards Calender shepherd Sir Henry song Sonnet soul speaks Spenser Spirit stage-direction story sweet syllable Tempest Tennyson thou Thyrsis trochee verb virgin Virtue wood word writers youth