Comus and Other PoemsOxford U.P., 1968 - 197 pages |
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Page 24
... Heaven for inspiration ( i.e. the solemnity . 36 decent : well dressed . eyes look up and the sky looks down ) . of God . still : unmoving . 41 holy passion : devoted love 42 Forget thyself to marble : ' be so lost in 43 cast : dropping ...
... Heaven for inspiration ( i.e. the solemnity . 36 decent : well dressed . eyes look up and the sky looks down ) . of God . still : unmoving . 41 holy passion : devoted love 42 Forget thyself to marble : ' be so lost in 43 cast : dropping ...
Page 104
... Heaven a time ordains , And disapproves that care , though wise in show , That with superfluous burden loads the day , And when God sends a cheerful hour , refrains . ΙΟ XVIII To the Same CYRIACK , this three years ' day these eyes ...
... Heaven a time ordains , And disapproves that care , though wise in show , That with superfluous burden loads the day , And when God sends a cheerful hour , refrains . ΙΟ XVIII To the Same CYRIACK , this three years ' day these eyes ...
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... heaven .... Hence arose also that primeval story that the Muses dance day and night before Jove's altar ; and hence comes that ancient attribution of skill with the lyre to Apollo .... What though no one on earth has ever heard that ...
... heaven .... Hence arose also that primeval story that the Muses dance day and night before Jove's altar ; and hence comes that ancient attribution of skill with the lyre to Apollo .... What though no one on earth has ever heard that ...
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Abraham Cowley Aldersgate Street Arcades Battle of Edgehill beauty Ben Jonson bird of hate blind bower Cambridge chastity Christ Christian Church Circe classical Comus Cromwell cuckoo dance dark daughter death divine doth ears earth Eclogue Elder Brother enchanted English epic eyes Faerie Queene faith father flower Genius give goddess gods Greek hath Heaven Henry Lawes Honigmann honour Il Penseroso Italian Jove King L'Allegro Lady Latin live London look Lord Lord Brackley Lycidas masque meaning medieval Milton moral Muse Nativity Ode night nightingale nymphs Orpheus Paradise Lost Parliament pastoral Penseroso Platonic poem poet poetic poetry praise Presbyterian priests Queen religion religious Renaissance rhyme Roman Royalist Sabrina shades shepherd sing solemn song sonnet sonnet 9 soul Spenser spheres spirits star swain sweet thee thou thought Turnham Green verse virgin virtue vision winds woods Wright young youth ΙΟ