ComusCambridge University Press, 1912 - 143 pages |
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... goddess of my harmful deeds , That did not better for my life provide , If we Than public means , which public manners breeds : Thence comes it that my name receives a brand ; And almost thence my nature is subdu'd To what it works in ...
... goddess of my harmful deeds , That did not better for my life provide , If we Than public means , which public manners breeds : Thence comes it that my name receives a brand ; And almost thence my nature is subdu'd To what it works in ...
Page xxxii
... goddess The Story 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 ...
... goddess The Story 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 ...
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... goddess who swayed the Severn stream in compliment to his audience . It suited the scene and the setting of his Masque ; and his treat- ment of the theme reflects , in no servile spirit of imitation , the graceful example of the poet ...
... goddess who swayed the Severn stream in compliment to his audience . It suited the scene and the setting of his Masque ; and his treat- ment of the theme reflects , in no servile spirit of imitation , the graceful example of the poet ...
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... with the pains of Purgatory ; rather , she has something of the kindliness 1 From the sixth of the Latin Elegies , Cowper's translation . that Shakespeare attributes to his goddess Adversity , whose uses xxxvi INTRODUCTION .
... with the pains of Purgatory ; rather , she has something of the kindliness 1 From the sixth of the Latin Elegies , Cowper's translation . that Shakespeare attributes to his goddess Adversity , whose uses xxxvi INTRODUCTION .
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John Milton. that Shakespeare attributes to his goddess Adversity , whose uses are sweet , and of whom it was happily said that she must be a fourth Grace , less known than the classic Three , but still their sister . These poems , L ...
John Milton. that Shakespeare attributes to his goddess Adversity , whose uses are sweet , and of whom it was happily said that she must be a fourth Grace , less known than the classic Three , but still their sister . These poems , L ...
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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