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... thought productive of the highest utility and enjoyment to the literary mind , and as being often included among the subjects prescribed to candidates for public examinations . The present work will , it is hoped , be.
... thought productive of the highest utility and enjoyment to the literary mind , and as being often included among the subjects prescribed to candidates for public examinations . The present work will , it is hoped , be.
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John Milton John Hunter (of Uxbridge). The present work will , it is hoped , be found to explain many difficulties both of language and allusion occurring in these poems , and to promote an appreciation of many beauties that might escape ...
John Milton John Hunter (of Uxbridge). The present work will , it is hoped , be found to explain many difficulties both of language and allusion occurring in these poems , and to promote an appreciation of many beauties that might escape ...
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... present labours . Nothing is indeed proved by setting one man's taste in opposition to another's ; yet when Johnson says : " Surely no man could have fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure , had he not known the author , ' while Dr ...
... present labours . Nothing is indeed proved by setting one man's taste in opposition to another's ; yet when Johnson says : " Surely no man could have fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure , had he not known the author , ' while Dr ...
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... present to the mind of the writer of Il Penseroso . — EDITOR . ] When I go musing all alone , And think of diverse ... Presents a thousand ugly shapes ; Each doleful cry , each fearful sight . Doth still my troubled soul affright ; All ...
... present to the mind of the writer of Il Penseroso . — EDITOR . ] When I go musing all alone , And think of diverse ... Presents a thousand ugly shapes ; Each doleful cry , each fearful sight . Doth still my troubled soul affright ; All ...
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... present aid Of this occasion . But I hear the tread Of hateful steps ; I must be viewless now . 85 90 COMUS enters with a charming - rod in one hand , his glass in the other ; with him a rout of monsters , headed like sundry sorts of ...
... present aid Of this occasion . But I hear the tread Of hateful steps ; I must be viewless now . 85 90 COMUS enters with a charming - rod in one hand , his glass in the other ; with him a rout of monsters , headed like sundry sorts of ...
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Milton's Comus, L'Allegro, and Il Penseroso, with Notes Etc. , by J. Hunter John Milton No preview available - 2013 |
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Page 23 - Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were ail-to ruffled, and sometimes impaired. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i...
Page 60 - To hear the lark begin his flight And singing startle the dull night From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...
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 59 - Haste thee nymph and bring with thee Jest and youthful jollity, Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles. Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled care derides. And laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe...
Page 75 - Or call up him that left half-told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife That own'd the virtuous ring and glass ; And of the wondrous horse of brass On which the Tartar king did ride...
Page 61 - And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures; Russet lawns, and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray; Mountains, on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide...
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 33 - Yea, even that which Mischief meant most harm Shall in the happy trial prove most glory. But evil on itself shall back recoil, And mix no more with goodness...
Page 46 - Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair; Listen for dear honour's sake, Goddess of the silver lake, Listen, and save. Listen, and appear to us, In name of great Oceanus; By the earth-shaking Neptune's mace, And Tethys' grave majestic pace; By hoary Nereus' wrinkled look, And the Carpathian wizard's hook; By scaly Triton's winding shell, And old sooth-saying Glaucus' spell; By Leucothea's lovely hands, And her son that...