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... the attendant spirit .'- NEWTON'S Life of Milton . ' In 1738 Comus was presented on the stage at Drury Lane , with musical accompaniments by Dr. Arne , and the applica- tion of additional songs , selected and adapted from L'Allegro.
... the attendant spirit .'- NEWTON'S Life of Milton . ' In 1738 Comus was presented on the stage at Drury Lane , with musical accompaniments by Dr. Arne , and the applica- tion of additional songs , selected and adapted from L'Allegro.
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John Milton John Hunter (of Uxbridge). tion of additional songs , selected and adapted from L'Allegro , & c .; and , although not calculated to shine in theatric exhibi- tions , for those very reasons which constitute its essential and ...
John Milton John Hunter (of Uxbridge). tion of additional songs , selected and adapted from L'Allegro , & c .; and , although not calculated to shine in theatric exhibi- tions , for those very reasons which constitute its essential and ...
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... song . In Comus we find nothing prosaic or feeble , no false taste in the incidents , and not much in the language , nothing over which we should desire to pass on a second perusal . The want of what we may call personality , none of ...
... song . In Comus we find nothing prosaic or feeble , no false taste in the incidents , and not much in the language , nothing over which we should desire to pass on a second perusal . The want of what we may call personality , none of ...
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... song of Comus has airiness and jollity ; but , what may recommend Milton's morals as well as his poetry , the invita- tions to pleasure are so general , that they excite no distinct images of corrupt enjoyment , and take no dangerous ...
... song of Comus has airiness and jollity ; but , what may recommend Milton's morals as well as his poetry , the invita- tions to pleasure are so general , that they excite no distinct images of corrupt enjoyment , and take no dangerous ...
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... song from Fletcher's comedy of Nice Valour , which the reader will at once perceive to have been present to the mind of the writer of Il Penseroso . — EDITOR . ] When I go musing all alone , And think of diverse things foreknown ; When ...
... song from Fletcher's comedy of Nice Valour , which the reader will at once perceive to have been present to the mind of the writer of Il Penseroso . — EDITOR . ] When I go musing all alone , And think of diverse things foreknown ; When ...
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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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adverbial Anatomy of Melancholy appear attended beauty bright brothers called charm chastity cheerful clouds Compare Comus dance darkness daughter divine doth earth expression Faerie fair fairies Faithful fancy fear give goddess grace Greek ground hand hath head hear Heaven hence holy Italy keep king L'Allegro lady language leaves light Listen live Lost means Melancholy Milton mind mirth morning mortal nature never night Note nymph occurs Penseroso perhaps phrase play pleasure poem poet poetry present Queene reference represented rising says seek seems shades Shakspeare Shakspeare's shepherd signifies sing sister sits song soul sound speaks Spenser spirit star story stream supposed sure sweet taste tell thee things thou thought Till tion true verb virgin virtue voice walks wind wood youth
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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...