ComusCambridge University Press, 1912 - 143 pages |
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Page xv
... Songs were set in Musick by Mr. Henry Lawes , gentleman of the King's Chappel , and one of His Majesties private Musick . -Baccare frontem Cingite , ne vati noceat mala lingua futuro . ' VIRG . Ecl . 7 . Printed and publish'd according ...
... Songs were set in Musick by Mr. Henry Lawes , gentleman of the King's Chappel , and one of His Majesties private Musick . -Baccare frontem Cingite , ne vati noceat mala lingua futuro . ' VIRG . Ecl . 7 . Printed and publish'd according ...
Page xxvii
... songs afterwards sung by Lawes himself or his pupils . They realised that there was in England a poet of rare promise and exquisite performance . Copies of Comus were asked for ; it became " much desired1 . " At last , to save himself ...
... songs afterwards sung by Lawes himself or his pupils . They realised that there was in England a poet of rare promise and exquisite performance . Copies of Comus were asked for ; it became " much desired1 . " At last , to save himself ...
Page xxix
... song , From old or modern bard , in hall or bower . " This claim to absolute originality must not be pressed . Milton was indebted in Comus , in some measure , to previous writers . We shall best be able to estimate the debt if we split ...
... song , From old or modern bard , in hall or bower . " This claim to absolute originality must not be pressed . Milton was indebted in Comus , in some measure , to previous writers . We shall best be able to estimate the debt if we split ...
Page xxxvii
... songs in Comus . He considered them " harsh " and " not very musical . " This was the The lyrical parts of Comus . " most curious feature of his strange , grudging criticism of 1 Prynne often refers to Masques , and always in terms of ...
... songs in Comus . He considered them " harsh " and " not very musical . " This was the The lyrical parts of Comus . " most curious feature of his strange , grudging criticism of 1 Prynne often refers to Masques , and always in terms of ...
Page xxxviii
... 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 things where all is beautiful , if the unapproachable ' Sabrina fair ' did not ...
... 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 things where all is beautiful , if the unapproachable ' Sabrina fair ' did not ...
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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