Comus: A MaskMathews and Leigh, 1808 - 89 pages |
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... true artificer . For the work itself I had viewed som good while before with singular delight , having received it from our common friend Mr. R. in the very close of the 4 April , 1638. ] Milton had communicated to Sir Henry his de ...
... true artificer . For the work itself I had viewed som good while before with singular delight , having received it from our common friend Mr. R. in the very close of the 4 April , 1638. ] Milton had communicated to Sir Henry his de ...
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... true , cannot now be told . It must have been soon after . The Mask was acted at Michaelmas 1634. " Sir John Hawkins has also observed , that this elegant poem is founded on a real story ; his account of which , though less particular ...
... true , cannot now be told . It must have been soon after . The Mask was acted at Michaelmas 1634. " Sir John Hawkins has also observed , that this elegant poem is founded on a real story ; his account of which , though less particular ...
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... true to his word , faith- ful to his friend , loyal to his prince , wary in council , strict in his justice , and punctual in all his actions . " This amiable and tender- hearted nobleman particularly encouraged learning . From several ...
... true to his word , faith- ful to his friend , loyal to his prince , wary in council , strict in his justice , and punctual in all his actions . " This amiable and tender- hearted nobleman particularly encouraged learning . From several ...
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... true servants , Amongst the enthron'd gods on sainted seats . 5 10 Verse 7. - pester'd ] Pester'd is crowded . Ital . pesta , a crowd or throng . TODD . Ib . - pin - fold . ] Pin - fold is now provincial , and signifies sometimes a ...
... true servants , Amongst the enthron'd gods on sainted seats . 5 10 Verse 7. - pester'd ] Pester'd is crowded . Ital . pesta , a crowd or throng . TODD . Ib . - pin - fold . ] Pin - fold is now provincial , and signifies sometimes a ...
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... true , 170 My best guide now : Methought it was the sound Of riot and ill - manag'd merriment , Such as the jocund flute , or gamesome pipe , Stirs up among the loose unletter'd hinds ; When for their teeming flocks , and granges full ...
... true , 170 My best guide now : Methought it was the sound Of riot and ill - manag'd merriment , Such as the jocund flute , or gamesome pipe , Stirs up among the loose unletter'd hinds ; When for their teeming flocks , and granges full ...
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afterwards allusion ancient appears arms beautiful Brothers called character charm chaste Chastity Circe composed Comus court dance daughter delight dialogue doth drama EARL OF BRIDGEWATER earldom of Bridgewater Echo edit enchanter English expression fable faery fair Faithful Shepherdess feast Fletcher's goddess golden Greek hath head Heaven Hecate Henry Lawes Homer honour HURD imagery king Lady Alice language Lawes's Locrine Lord Brackley Lord President Ludlow Castle magician magick Mask Masque Metam Milton mortal musick NEWTON night noble Nymph observed Ovid Paradise Lost passage perhaps poem poet poet's poetical poetry praise Prince Puteanus queen ribs of death Roger de Montgomery Sabrina says sentiments Shakspeare Shakspeare's shepherd Sidney sing Sir Henry sister song soon soul Spenser Spir Spirit sublime suppose swain sweet taste Tempest Thomas Egerton thou THYER Thyrsis TODD verse virgin Virtue Wales wand wander WARBURTON WARTON winding wood word written
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Page 39 - Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence.
Page 50 - 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, And, in clear dream, and solemn vision, Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear...
Page 37 - Is now the labour of my thoughts ; 'tis likeliest They had engaged their wandering steps too far ; And envious darkness, ere they could return, Had stole them from me : else, O thievish night, Why shouldst thou, but for some felonious end, In thy dark lantern thus close up the stars. That nature hung in heaven, and fill'd their lamps With everlasting oil, to give due light To the misled and lonely traveller?
Page 55 - I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of Death...
Page 38 - Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night ? I did not err, there does a sable cloud •Turn forth her silver lining on the night...
Page 58 - The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flower, but not in this soil : Unknown, and like esteem'd, and the dull swain Treads on it daily with his clouted shoon...
Page 42 - Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots ; Their port was more than human, as they stood : I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i
Page 32 - 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.
Page 37 - By a strong siding champion, conscience. 0 welcome, pure-eyed Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering angel girt with golden wings, And thou unblemish'd form of Chastity ; 1 see ye visibly, and now believe That he, the Supreme Good, to...
Page 33 - Meanwhile welcome Joy, and Feast, Midnight Shout and Revelry, Tipsy Dance and Jollity. Braid your locks with rosy twine, Dropping odours, dropping wine Rigour now is gone to bed, And Advice with scrupulous head, Strict Age, and sour Severity, With their grave saws in slumber lie.