Arcades & ComusUniversity Press, 1891 - 208 pages |
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Page xiv
... passing , the clash between the careless hedonism of the Cavalier world and the deepening austerity of Puritanism . In L'Allegro the poet holds the balance almost equal between the two opposing tendencies . In Il Penseroso it becomes ...
... passing , the clash between the careless hedonism of the Cavalier world and the deepening austerity of Puritanism . In L'Allegro the poet holds the balance almost equal between the two opposing tendencies . In Il Penseroso it becomes ...
Page xix
... passed in the space of twenty years — Church - Puritan , Presbyterian , Royalist , Independent , Commonwealth's man , Oliverian . " To illustrate this statement would need many pages . view . There remains the other side of the question ...
... passed in the space of twenty years — Church - Puritan , Presbyterian , Royalist , Independent , Commonwealth's man , Oliverian . " To illustrate this statement would need many pages . view . There remains the other side of the question ...
Page xxi
... passed quietly . At the age of fifty - two he was thrown back upon poetry , and could at length discharge his self - storation imposed obligation . The early poems he had never regarded as a fulfilment of the debt due to his Creator ; 1 ...
... passed quietly . At the age of fifty - two he was thrown back upon poetry , and could at length discharge his self - storation imposed obligation . The early poems he had never regarded as a fulfilment of the debt due to his Creator ; 1 ...
Page xxiii
... passed between us , he called for a manuscript of his ; which , being brought , he delivered to me , bidding me take it home with me and read it at my leisure , and , when I had so done , return it to him with my judgment thereupon ...
... passed between us , he called for a manuscript of his ; which , being brought , he delivered to me , bidding me take it home with me and read it at my leisure , and , when I had so done , return it to him with my judgment thereupon ...
Page xl
... passing it through the alembic of his genius enriches literature with the gems of consummate achievement , or when a great poet like Milton openly conveys a suggestion from a dramatist like Fletcher who had doubtless done the same thing ...
... passing it through the alembic of his genius enriches literature with the gems of consummate achievement , or when a great poet like Milton openly conveys a suggestion from a dramatist like Fletcher who had doubtless done the same thing ...
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Page 128 - For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires: The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.
Page 142 - How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year ! My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th.
Page 164 - But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
Page 172 - But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the world unto our glory.
Page 197 - Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty. Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
Page 13 - Yet some there be that, by due steps, aspire To lay their just hands on that golden key That opes the palace of eternity. To such my errand is...
Page 37 - Beauty is Nature's brag, and must be shown In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, Where most may wonder at the workmanship. It is for homely features to keep home; They had their name thence: coarse complexions And cheeks of sorry grain will serve to ply The sampler, and to tease the huswife's wool.
Page 13 - Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth, and, with low-thoughted care, Confined and pestered in this pinfold here, Strive to keep up a frail and feverish being, Unmindful of the crown that Virtue gives, After this mortal change, to her true servants 10 Amongst the enthroned gods on sainted seats.
Page 105 - Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.
Page xx - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy.