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Page xvii
... Comus , this manner of introducing mythological allusion is peculiar to these two longer and and later poems ; but it is not just to infer from this 1 P. R. 4. 560-576 . The strength of this passage is not due alone to the balance of ...
... Comus , this manner of introducing mythological allusion is peculiar to these two longer and and later poems ; but it is not just to infer from this 1 P. R. 4. 560-576 . The strength of this passage is not due alone to the balance of ...
Page xviii
... Comus , Il Penseroso , or the First and Second Books of Paradise Lost . Thus the indefinite and shadowy classical idea of Chaos , as either a place or a divin- ity , or merely an unordered condition of things , has been elaborated under ...
... Comus , Il Penseroso , or the First and Second Books of Paradise Lost . Thus the indefinite and shadowy classical idea of Chaos , as either a place or a divin- ity , or merely an unordered condition of things , has been elaborated under ...
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... Comus the element of enchantment and sensuality is largely composed of references to Bacchus and Circe It also includes the mention of dark - veiled Cotytto , who rides with Hecate through the night , concealing the wicked excesses of ...
... Comus the element of enchantment and sensuality is largely composed of references to Bacchus and Circe It also includes the mention of dark - veiled Cotytto , who rides with Hecate through the night , concealing the wicked excesses of ...
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... Comus reveals the principal difference between Milton's method of treatment and Spenser's . The latter poet is nearly always the more diffuse . Though the amount of mythology in his considerably larger body of poetry appears to be much ...
... Comus reveals the principal difference between Milton's method of treatment and Spenser's . The latter poet is nearly always the more diffuse . Though the amount of mythology in his considerably larger body of poetry appears to be much ...
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... Comus and the lady . As Circe by means of her drug and wand changes all strangers to swine , so Comus with his orient liquor and wand changes trav- elers into brutish forms . As Odysseus was protected against these charms by the moly ...
... Comus and the lady . As Circe by means of her drug and wand changes all strangers to swine , so Comus with his orient liquor and wand changes trav- elers into brutish forms . As Odysseus was protected against these charms by the moly ...
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Page lii - 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 57 - Muse ! that on the secret top Of Oreb or of Sinai didst inspire That shepherd who first taught the chosen seed In the beginning how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos.
Page lxi - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
Page lxviii - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Page xv - The birds their quire apply ; airs, vernal airs, Breathing the smell of field and grove, attune The trembling leaves, while universal Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance, Led on the eternal Spring.
Page xxv - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise Him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Page lxxxii - For neither were ye playing on the steep Where your old bards, the famous Druids, lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream. Ay me! I fondly dream "Had ye been there," — for what could that have done?
Page lvi - 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 140 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 lix - Hence, vain deluding Joys, The brood of Folly without father bred! How little you bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys!
Page xxxix - The star that bids the shepherd fold Now the top of heaven doth hold ; And the gilded car of day His glowing axle doth allay In the steep Atlantic stream : And the slope sun his upward beam Shoots against the dusky pole, Pacing toward the other goal Of his chamber in the east.