ComusCambridge University Press, 1912 - 143 pages |
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... light on the theological views expressed in the two epic poems and Samson Agonistes . 2 The lines by Dryden which were printed beneath the portrait of Milton in Tonson's folio edition of Paradise Lost published in 1688 are too familiar ...
... light on the theological views expressed in the two epic poems and Samson Agonistes . 2 The lines by Dryden which were printed beneath the portrait of Milton in Tonson's folio edition of Paradise Lost published in 1688 are too familiar ...
Page xxx
... light extinguished . " Warton's abstract of the Old Wives ' Tale somewhat accentuates the resemblance . It does not strike us quite so forcibly when we read Peele's work . Still the similarity is there , and Milton's indebtedness to ...
... light extinguished . " Warton's abstract of the Old Wives ' Tale somewhat accentuates the resemblance . It does not strike us quite so forcibly when we read Peele's work . Still the similarity is there , and Milton's indebtedness to ...
Page 11
... light fantastic round . The Measure . Break off , break off ! I feel the different pace Of some chaste footing near about this ground . Run to your shrouds within these brakes and trees ; Our number may affright . Some virgin sure ( For ...
... light fantastic round . The Measure . Break off , break off ! I feel the different pace Of some chaste footing near about this ground . Run to your shrouds within these brakes and trees ; Our number may affright . Some virgin sure ( For ...
Page 13
... light To the misled and lonely traveller ? This is the place , as well as I may guess , Whence even now the tumult of loud mirth Was rife , and perfect in my listening ear ; Yet nought but single darkness do I find . What might this be ...
... light To the misled and lonely traveller ? This is the place , as well as I may guess , Whence even now the tumult of loud mirth Was rife , and perfect in my listening ear ; Yet nought but single darkness do I find . What might this be ...
Page 16
... light , Would overtask the best land - pilot's art , Without the sure guess of well - practised feet . Comus . I know each lane , and every alley green , Dingle , or bushy dell , of this wild wood , And every bosky bourn from side to ...
... light , Would overtask the best land - pilot's art , Without the sure guess of well - practised feet . Comus . I know each lane , and every alley green , Dingle , or bushy dell , of this wild wood , And every bosky bourn from side to ...
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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