Arcades & ComusUniversity Press, 1891 - 208 pages |
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... word ' culture ' signifies anything very definite or desirable before they pass to the University , but for Milton home - life meant from the first broad interests , refinement and the easy , material prosperity under which the literary ...
... word ' culture ' signifies anything very definite or desirable before they pass to the University , but for Milton home - life meant from the first broad interests , refinement and the easy , material prosperity under which the literary ...
Page xv
... word of the enemies of the Anglican Church - the delenda est Carthago cry of Puritanism , and no one enforced the point with greater eloquence than Milton . During 1641 and 1642 he wrote five pamphlets on the subject . Mean- while he ...
... word of the enemies of the Anglican Church - the delenda est Carthago cry of Puritanism , and no one enforced the point with greater eloquence than Milton . During 1641 and 1642 he wrote five pamphlets on the subject . Mean- while he ...
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... word , furnished him with that experience of life which is essential to all poets who aspire to be something more than " the idle singers of an empty day . " But unfortu- nately the secretaryship entailed the necessity of Its disadvan ...
... word , furnished him with that experience of life which is essential to all poets who aspire to be something more than " the idle singers of an empty day . " But unfortu- nately the secretaryship entailed the necessity of Its disadvan ...
Page xix
... word may be said here . We saw what parting of the ways confronted Milton on his return from Italy . Did he choose aright ? Should life ? he have continued upon the path of learned leisure ? There are writers who argue that Milton made ...
... word may be said here . We saw what parting of the ways confronted Milton on his return from Italy . Did he choose aright ? Should life ? he have continued upon the path of learned leisure ? There are writers who argue that Milton made ...
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... word , complete the preliminary arrangements incidental to the representation of an unusually long Masque . The spring therefore of 1634 may be received with some confidence as the date of the composition of Comus . Whether the play was ...
... word , complete the preliminary arrangements incidental to the representation of an unusually long Masque . The spring therefore of 1634 may be received with some confidence as the date of the composition of Comus . Whether the play was ...
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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.