ComusCambridge University Press, 1912 - 143 pages |
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Page xxiii
... Thou hast said much here of Paradise Lost , but what hast thou to say of Paradise found ? " Possibly we owe Paradise Regained to these chance words ; or the poem , forming as it does a natural pendant to its predecessor , may have been ...
... Thou hast said much here of Paradise Lost , but what hast thou to say of Paradise found ? " Possibly we owe Paradise Regained to these chance words ; or the poem , forming as it does a natural pendant to its predecessor , may have been ...
Page xxxix
... thou goddess , " line 11 ) taken from L'Allegro , the invocation to Mirth being followed by the appearance on the scene of Euphrosyne . This stage - version was produced at Drury Lane theatre in 1738 , and was frequently acted and ...
... thou goddess , " line 11 ) taken from L'Allegro , the invocation to Mirth being followed by the appearance on the scene of Euphrosyne . This stage - version was produced at Drury Lane theatre in 1738 , and was frequently acted and ...
Page 11
... thou ridest with Hecate , and befriend Us thy vowed priests , till utmost end Of all thy dues be done , and none left out ; Ere the blabbing eastern scout , The nice Morn , on the Indian steep From her cabined loop - hole peep , And to ...
... thou ridest with Hecate , and befriend Us thy vowed priests , till utmost end Of all thy dues be done , and none left out ; Ere the blabbing eastern scout , The nice Morn , on the Indian steep From her cabined loop - hole peep , And to ...
Page 13
... Thou hovering angel girt with golden wings , And thou unblemished form of Chastity ! I see ye visibly , and now believe That He , the Supreme Good , to whom all things ill Are but as slavish officers of vengeance , Would send a ...
... Thou hovering angel girt with golden wings , And thou unblemished form of Chastity ! I see ye visibly , and now believe That He , the Supreme Good , to whom all things ill Are but as slavish officers of vengeance , Would send a ...
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... thou not tell me of a gentle pair That likest thy Narcissus are ? O , if thou have Hid them in some flowery cave , Tell me but where , Sweet Queen of parley , Daughter of the sphere ! So may'st thou be translated to the skies , 230 240 ...
... thou not tell me of a gentle pair That likest thy Narcissus are ? O , if thou have Hid them in some flowery cave , Tell me but where , Sweet Queen of parley , Daughter of the sphere ! So may'st thou be translated to the skies , 230 240 ...
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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