Milton's Comus, L'allegro, and Il Penseroso: With Numerous Illustrative Notes &cLongmans, Green, and Company, 1864 - 96 pages |
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... Hence all you vain delights , As short as are the nights Wherein ye spend your folly ; There's nought in this life sweet , If man were wise to see ' t , But only Melancholy : O sweetest Melancholy ! Welcome arms folded and fixed eyes ...
... Hence all you vain delights , As short as are the nights Wherein ye spend your folly ; There's nought in this life sweet , If man were wise to see ' t , But only Melancholy : O sweetest Melancholy ! Welcome arms folded and fixed eyes ...
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... formed into a nightingale . Hence it is always as a female that the nightingale is referred to by poets . See the sad story of Philomela in Ovid's Met . , vi . 438–676 . Canst thou not tell me of a gentle pair That COMUS . 15.
... formed into a nightingale . Hence it is always as a female that the nightingale is referred to by poets . See the sad story of Philomela in Ovid's Met . , vi . 438–676 . Canst thou not tell me of a gentle pair That COMUS . 15.
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... hence its more modern significa- tion , to bind , pledge , or engage , by joining hands . 303. Like the path , & c . ] That is , difficult as that path of which the Scripture says , ' few there be that find it . ' Matt . vii . 14. The ...
... hence its more modern significa- tion , to bind , pledge , or engage , by joining hands . 303. Like the path , & c . ] That is , difficult as that path of which the Scripture says , ' few there be that find it . ' Matt . vii . 14. The ...
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... hence Ovid says : - Quarum Cynosura petatur Sidoniis , Helicen , Graia carina notet . Fasti , iii . 107 . 345. Oaten stops . ] The shep- herd's pipe , being at first a row of oaten stalks , was afterwards often called the oaten pipe ...
... hence Ovid says : - Quarum Cynosura petatur Sidoniis , Helicen , Graia carina notet . Fasti , iii . 107 . 345. Oaten stops . ] The shep- herd's pipe , being at first a row of oaten stalks , was afterwards often called the oaten pipe ...
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... Hence had the huntress Dian her dread bow , Fair silver - shafted queen , for ever chaste , Wherewith she tamed the brinded lioness And spotted mountain - pard , but set at nought The frivolous bolt of Cupid ; gods and men 440 445 ...
... Hence had the huntress Dian her dread bow , Fair silver - shafted queen , for ever chaste , Wherewith she tamed the brinded lioness And spotted mountain - pard , but set at nought The frivolous bolt of Cupid ; gods and men 440 445 ...
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Page 62 - Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the chequered shade...
Page 66 - And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse ; Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning ; The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus...
Page 19 - I saw them under a green mantling vine, That crawls along the side of yon small hill, Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots ; Their port was more than human, as they stood : I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i
Page 57 - Hence, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born In Stygian cave forlorn 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy ! Find out some uncouth cell, Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night-raven sings ; There, under ebon shades and low-browed rocks, As ragged as thy locks, In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell.
Page 16 - Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence.
Page 15 - Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night ? I did not err : there does a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night, And casts a gleam over this tufted grove.
Page 58 - Euphrosyne, And by men, heart-easing Mirth, Whom lovely Venus, at a birth, With two sister Graces more, To Ivy-crowned Bacchus bore...
Page 44 - What ! have you let the false enchanter scape ? O ye mistook ; ye should have snatched his wand, And bound him fast. Without his rod reversed, And backward mutters of dissevering power, We cannot free the Lady that sits here In stony fetters fixed and motionless.
Page 18 - I saw, what time the laboured ox In his loose traces from the furrow came, And the swinked hedger at his supper sat. I saw them under a green mantling vine, That crawls along the side of yon small hill, Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots; Their port was more than human, as they stood.
Page 75 - The story of Cambuscan bold, no Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That owned the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous horse of brass On which the Tartar king did ride; And if aught else great bards beside In sage and solemn tunes have sung, Of turneys, and of trophies hung, Of forests, and enchantments drear, Where more is meant than meets the ear.