ComusCambridge University Press, 1912 - 143 pages |
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Page xi
... speaks of the " inward prompting which grows daily upon me , that by labour and intent study , which I take to be my portion in this life , joined with the strong propensity of nature , I might perhaps leave something so written to ...
... speaks of the " inward prompting which grows daily upon me , that by labour and intent study , which I take to be my portion in this life , joined with the strong propensity of nature , I might perhaps leave something so written to ...
Page 15
... speak to her , And she shall be my queen . - Hail , foreign wonder ! Whom certain these rough shades did never breed , Unless the goddess that in rural shrine Dwell'st here with Pan or Sylvan , by blest song Forbidding every bleak ...
... speak to her , And she shall be my queen . - Hail , foreign wonder ! Whom certain these rough shades did never breed , Unless the goddess that in rural shrine Dwell'st here with Pan or Sylvan , by blest song Forbidding every bleak ...
Page 42
... speak as an authority on travel than on literature . 29. blanch , omit , pass by . If we used the verb at all we should treat it as intransitive , inserting from . Paris . Milton arrived there in April or May , 1638. He seems to have ...
... speak as an authority on travel than on literature . 29. blanch , omit , pass by . If we used the verb at all we should treat it as intransitive , inserting from . Paris . Milton arrived there in April or May , 1638. He seems to have ...
Page 57
... speaks of the " mystic dance " of the planets , Par . Lost , v . 178 ( and see also 620-624 ) . the months and years . the words of Genesis i . 14 ) . Cf. Par . Lost , VII . 339-342 ( echoing 115. sounds , straits of sea ; see G. 116 ...
... speaks of the " mystic dance " of the planets , Par . Lost , v . 178 ( and see also 620-624 ) . the months and years . the words of Genesis i . 14 ) . Cf. Par . Lost , VII . 339-342 ( echoing 115. sounds , straits of sea ; see G. 116 ...
Page 58
... speaks of their being celebrated with " secret torch " ( secreta tæda ) . 131. ne'er called but when , i.e. only invoked at night . dragon . Newton considers this an allusion to the idea that the chariot of the night was drawn by ...
... speaks of their being celebrated with " secret torch " ( secreta tæda ) . 131. ne'er called but when , i.e. only invoked at night . dragon . Newton considers this an allusion to the idea that the chariot of the night was drawn by ...
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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