And when the sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown, that Sylvan loves, Of pine, or monumental oak, Where the rude axe, with heaved stroke, Was never heard the nymphs to daunt Or... Paradise regained. An account of Cowper's writings, relating to Milton. A ... - Page 200by William Hayley - 1810Full view - About this book
| Literature - 1851 - 824 pages
...aud with a sensation of delicious coolness, upon coverts as shady as any described in the Penseroso, arched walks of twilight groves, ,And shadows brown,...loves, Of pine, or monumental oak, Where the rude nxe with henved stroke, Was never heard the nymphs to daunt Or fright them from their hallow'd haunt.... | |
| George Croly - English poetry - 1849 - 416 pages
...gust hath blown his fill, Eliding on the rustling leaves, With minute drops from off the eaves. Aud when the sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me,...heard the nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallowed hauuU There in close covert by some brook, Where no profaner eye may look, Hide me from Day's... | |
| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...loud, Or usher'd with a shower still, When the guet hath blown his fill, Ending on the rustling leaves. hearse, stand from the body. 2(i Cit. Room for Antony...Ali. Stand back ! room ! bear back ! Ant. If you love», Of pine, or monumental oak, Where the rude axe, with heaved stroke, Was never heard the nymphs... | |
| Frederick Charles Cook - 1849 - 144 pages
...immortal mind that hath forsook Thus, Night, oft see me in thy pale career, Till civil-suited morn appear, And, when the sun begins to fling His flaring beams,...of twilight groves, And shadows brown, that Sylvan 3 loves, Of pine, or monumental oak, Where the rude axe, with heaved stroke, Was never heard the nymphs... | |
| Heinrich Mutschmann - 1924 - 80 pages
...Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown, that Sylvan loves, 135 Of pine and monumental oak, Where the rude axe with heaved stroke...heard the nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallowed haunt. There, in close covert, by some brook, 140 Where no profaner eye may look, Hide me... | |
| John Broadbent - Literary Criticism - 1973 - 364 pages
...Spenser and Shakespeare. The ' I ' figures in these poems are consciously immature and developing: And when the sun begins to fling His flaring beams,...twilight groves, And shadows brown that Sylvan loves. Penseroso 131 But 1Sth-century poets took on the stance of il penseroso without any sense of its limitations... | |
| John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...Leaves, With minute drops from off the Eaves. And when the Sun begins tofing His faring beams, me Goddes bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown that Sylvan loves Of Pine, or monumental Oake, Where the rude Ax with heaved slroke, Was never heard the Nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from... | |
| John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...the gust hath blown his fill, Ending on the rusding leaves, With minute-drops from off the eaves. 130 And, when the sun begins to fling His flaring beams,...walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown, that Sylvan77 loves, Of pine, or monumental oak, Where the rude axe with heaved stroke Was never heard the... | |
| Joshua Scodel - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 388 pages
...omitted in his adaptation of the passage in L' Allegro. In II Penseroso the speaker asks that . . . when the sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me...heard the nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallowed haunt. There in close covert by some brook, Where no profaner eye may look, Hide me from day's... | |
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