ComusCambridge University Press, 1912 - 143 pages |
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Page xiii
... youth that , above all things , I could not be ignorant what is of Divine and what of human right , I resolved , though I was then meditating certain other matters , to transfer into this struggle all my genius and all the strength of ...
... youth that , above all things , I could not be ignorant what is of Divine and what of human right , I resolved , though I was then meditating certain other matters , to transfer into this struggle all my genius and all the strength of ...
Page xxxi
... youth ruddy with wine , but the account is too slight to have been of much service to Milton , even if he was familiar with it . More definite is the picture drawn by Ben Jonson in the Masque of Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue ( 1619 ) ...
... youth ruddy with wine , but the account is too slight to have been of much service to Milton , even if he was familiar with it . More definite is the picture drawn by Ben Jonson in the Masque of Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue ( 1619 ) ...
Page xxxv
... youth he de- scribed thus , in a strain of classical allusion , the obli- gations of those who would touch the highest reaches of poetic art : Pq 37 " But they , who demi - gods and heroes praise , And feats performed in Jove's more ...
... youth he de- scribed thus , in a strain of classical allusion , the obli- gations of those who would touch the highest reaches of poetic art : Pq 37 " But they , who demi - gods and heroes praise , And feats performed in Jove's more ...
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... youth , which give a full assurance to all that know you of a future excellence . Live , sweet Lord , to be the honour of your name ; and receive this as your own from the hands of him who hath by many favours been long obliged to your ...
... youth , which give a full assurance to all that know you of a future excellence . Live , sweet Lord , to be the honour of your name ; and receive this as your own from the hands of him who hath by many favours been long obliged to your ...
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... his clustering locks , With ivy berries wreathed , and his blithe youth , Had by him , ere he parted thence , a son Much like his father , but his mother more , 30 40 50 Whom therefore she brought up , and Comus named : 8 COMUS .
... his clustering locks , With ivy berries wreathed , and his blithe youth , Had by him , ere he parted thence , a son Much like his father , but his mother more , 30 40 50 Whom therefore she brought up , and Comus named : 8 COMUS .
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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