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Page xvii
... look to other passages . A more striking example of some of these qualities of Milton's earlier poetry will be found in the famous song from Comus , Sabrina fair ( p . 38 , below , vv.9–32 ) , wherein we have almost a complete list of ...
... look to other passages . A more striking example of some of these qualities of Milton's earlier poetry will be found in the famous song from Comus , Sabrina fair ( p . 38 , below , vv.9–32 ) , wherein we have almost a complete list of ...
Page xxii
... look into the contents of a volume of one of these " sons of Ben , " we shall find that he has followed his master alike in the diversity and in the limitations of his He may give a greater preponderance to one species of verse , but he ...
... look into the contents of a volume of one of these " sons of Ben , " we shall find that he has followed his master alike in the diversity and in the limitations of his He may give a greater preponderance to one species of verse , but he ...
Page xlvi
... look , say to him : Sir , O pray deliver this little book to my dear brother , Farrar , and tell him he shall find in it a picture of the many spiritual conflicts that have passed twixt God and my soul , before I could subject mine to ...
... look , say to him : Sir , O pray deliver this little book to my dear brother , Farrar , and tell him he shall find in it a picture of the many spiritual conflicts that have passed twixt God and my soul , before I could subject mine to ...
Page liv
... look forward we shall find the practice of the sus- tained religious narrative poem , first popularized by Quarles , continuing down to very late times . Thus Cowley wrote an epic , the Davideis , and Prior esteemed his Solomon the best ...
... look forward we shall find the practice of the sus- tained religious narrative poem , first popularized by Quarles , continuing down to very late times . Thus Cowley wrote an epic , the Davideis , and Prior esteemed his Solomon the best ...
Page lvii
... worldliness of its tone , a body of devotional poetry of a quantity and a qual- ity for which we may look in vain in any other half - century of English literature . A superficial consideration of this century INTRODUCTION . lvii.
... worldliness of its tone , a body of devotional poetry of a quantity and a qual- ity for which we may look in vain in any other half - century of English literature . A superficial consideration of this century INTRODUCTION . lvii.
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Page 256 - It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear; Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!
Page 275 - There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
Page 254 - WHENAS in silks my Julia goes, Then, then, methinks, how sweetly flows That liquefaction of her clothes! Next, when I cast mine eyes and see That brave vibration each way free, — O how that glittering taketh me ! Robert Herrick 121.
Page 217 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Page 134 - WHEN Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates — When I lie tangled in her hair And fettered to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty.
Page 216 - Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Page 159 - Let us roll all our strength and all Our sweetness up into one ball, And tear our pleasures with rough strife Thorough the iron gates of life.
Page 21 - Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth and youth and warm desire ; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long.
Page 22 - For whilst, to the shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath, from the leaves of thy unvalued book, Those Delphic lines with deep impression took; Then thou, our fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make us marble, with too much conceiving; And, so sepulchred, in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.
Page 144 - But ah, my soul with too much stay Is drunk, and staggers in the way! Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move, And, when this dust falls to the urn, In that state I came, return.