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Page xvii
... look to other passages . A more striking example of some of these qualities of Milton's earlier poetry will be found in the famous song from Comus , Sabrina fair ( p . 38 , below , vv.9–32 ) , wherein we have almost a complete list of ...
... look to other passages . A more striking example of some of these qualities of Milton's earlier poetry will be found in the famous song from Comus , Sabrina fair ( p . 38 , below , vv.9–32 ) , wherein we have almost a complete list of ...
Page xxii
... look into the contents of a volume of one of these " sons of Ben , " we shall find that he has followed his master alike in the diversity and in the limitations of his art . He may give a greater preponderance to one species of verse ...
... look into the contents of a volume of one of these " sons of Ben , " we shall find that he has followed his master alike in the diversity and in the limitations of his art . He may give a greater preponderance to one species of verse ...
Page xlvi
... look , say to him : Sir , O pray deliver this little book to my dear brother , Farrar , and tell him he shall find in it a picture of the many spiritual conflicts that have passed twixt God and my soul , before I could subject mine to ...
... look , say to him : Sir , O pray deliver this little book to my dear brother , Farrar , and tell him he shall find in it a picture of the many spiritual conflicts that have passed twixt God and my soul , before I could subject mine to ...
Page liv
... look forward we shall find the practice of the sus- tained religious narrative poem , first popularized by Quarles , continuing down to very late times . Thus Cowley wrote an epic , the Davideis , and Prior esteemed his Solomon the best ...
... look forward we shall find the practice of the sus- tained religious narrative poem , first popularized by Quarles , continuing down to very late times . Thus Cowley wrote an epic , the Davideis , and Prior esteemed his Solomon the best ...
Page lvii
... worldliness of its tone , a body of devotional poetry of a quantity and a qual- ity for which we may look in vain in any other half - century of English literature . A superficial consideration of this century INTRODUCTION . lvii.
... worldliness of its tone , a body of devotional poetry of a quantity and a qual- ity for which we may look in vain in any other half - century of English literature . A superficial consideration of this century INTRODUCTION . lvii.
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Page 217 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Page 134 - WHEN Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates — When I lie tangled in her hair And fettered to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty.
Page xii - But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks! It is the east, and Juliet is the sun ! — Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou her maid art far more fair than she...
Page 275 - There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
Page 23 - Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven ; All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye.
Page 244 - There is a gentle nymph not far from hence, That with moist curb sways the smooth Severn stream: Sabrina is her name: a virgin pure; Whilom she was the daughter of Locrine, That had the sceptre from his father Brute. She, guiltless damsel, flying the mad pursuit Of her enraged stepdame, Guendolen, 830 Commended her fair innocence to the flood That stayed her flight with his cross-flowing course. The water-nymphs, that in the bottom played, Held up their pearled wrists, and took her in, Bearing her...
Page 159 - Let us roll all our strength and all Our sweetness up into one ball, And tear our pleasures with rough strife Thorough the iron gates of life.
Page 169 - He that hath found some fledged bird's nest may know At first sight if the bird be flown ; But what fair well or grove he sings in now, That is to him unknown.
Page 21 - Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth and youth and warm desire ; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long.
Page 89 - Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill; But their strong nerves at last must yield; They tame but one another still: Early or late, They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath, When they, pale captives, creep to death.