 Built in the eclipse, and rigged with curses dark, That sunk so low that sacred head of thine. Next Camus, reverend sire, went footing slow, His mantle hairy, and his bonnet sedge Inwrought with figures dim, and on the edge Like to that sanguine flower...  The life of Alexander Duff - Page 320by George Smith - 1879Full view - About this book
 | 1869 - 974 pages
...in the eclipse, and rigged with curses dark, That ««»& so low that sacred head of thine. -ZVeatf, Camus, reverend sire, went footing slow, His mantle...bonnet sedge, Inwrought with figures dim, and on the ettye 105 Like to that sanguine flower inscribed with woe. 91. Inquired at ; offending. 92. Sore ill-fortune... | |
 | Phineas Fletcher, Alexander Balloch Grosart - 1869 - 348 pages
...Cf. Milton in ' Lycidas '— " Next CAMUS, reverend sire, went footing slow His mantle hairy, and hia bonnet sedge, Inwrought with figures dim, and on the edge Like to that sanguine flower insorib'd with woe." As shewn in our Essay (Vol. I. p. ccxiii) MILTON probably drew his ' fantiny slou-'... | |
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 pages
...bark, Built in the eclipse, and rigged with curses dark. That sunk so low that sacred head of thine. Next Camus, reverend sire, went footing slow. His..."Ah! who hath reft (quoth he) my dearest pledge?" I,ast came, and last did go, The pilot of the Galilean lake ; Two massy keys he bore of metals twain,... | |
 | John Milton - 1870 - 436 pages
...the level brine Sleek Panope with all her sisters play'd. It was that fatal and perfidious bark, 100 Next Camus, reverend sire, went footing slow, His...sedge, Inwrought with figures dim, and on the edge, 105 Like to that sanguine flower inscrib'd with woe. 'Ah ! who hath reft (quoth he) my dearest pledge... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Literary Criticism - 1970 - 372 pages
...[533-4]. An unconscious echo of Milton, Lycidas, 104-6: His mantle hairy and his bonnet sedge, Inwrsught with figures dim, and on the edge Like to that sanguine flower 689-93 [540-3]. ie in 1788. Cf. VII. 73. 71 1 [560]^'. Another passage in the Miltonic style ('sees,... | |
 | John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...perfidious Bark Built in th' eclipse, anariggd witb curses dark, That sunk so low that sacred bead of thine. Next Camus, reverend Sire, went footing slow, His Mantle hairy, and his Bonnet sedge, ' Inwrought withjigures dim, and on the edge Like to that sanguinejlower inscrib'd with woe. Ah; Who hath reft... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...sunk so low that sacred head of thine. Next, Camus,107 reverend sire, went footing slow, His mande hairy, and his bonnet sedge, Inwrought with figures...'Ah! who hath reft,' quoth he, 'my dearest pledge?' Last came, and last did go, The Pilot108 of the Galilean Lake; Two massy keys he bore of metals twain... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...bark 100 Built in th'eclipse, and rigg'd with curses dark. That sunk so low that sacred head of thine. Next Camus, reverend sire, went footing slow, His...dim, and on the edge Like to that sanguine flower inscrib'd with woe. "Ah! Who hath reft" (quoth he) "my dearest pledge?" Last came, and last did go,... | |
 | J. Martin Evans - History - 1998 - 204 pages
...relationship between the second visitors in the two elegies. As we have seen, Milton's Camus, with his "Mantle hairy, and his Bonnet sedge, / Inwrought...dim, and on the edge / Like to that sanguine flower inscrib'd with woe" (104-6), bears a striking resemblance to Virgil's Silvanus.64 The one significant... | |
 | William Harmon - Literary Collections - 1998 - 386 pages
...That sunk so low that sacred head of thine. Next Camus (reverend sire) went footing slow, His mande hairy and his bonnet sedge Inwrought with figures dim, and on the edge Like to that sanguine flower inscrib'd with woe. "Ah! Who hath reft" (quoth he) "my dearest pledge?" Last came, and last did go,... | |
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