 | Literature - 1910 - 862 pages
...I should be abused by every tasteless pedant and every solid divine in Europe." Charles Lamb says: "Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him," which, not to put too fine a point on it, is an inconvenient essential attached to a favorite author.... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1845 - 398 pages
...would think of taking up the Fairy Queen for a stop-gap, or a volume of Bishop Andrewes' sermons ? Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which, who listens, had need bring docile thoughts, and purged ears. Winter... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1856 - 408 pages
...who would think of taking up the Fairy Queen for a stop-gap, or a volume of Bishop Andrewes' sermons? Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which, who listens, had need biing docile thoughts and purged ears. Winter... | |
 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1857 - 424 pages
...Lamb's observations — deep-dyed as they all were in truth and the tints of his own peculiar humour — that " Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which who listens had need bring docile thoughts and purged ears." It was... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - English literature - 1857 - 564 pages
...would think of taking up the Fairy Queen for a •top-gap, or a volume of Bishop Andrewes' sermons ? Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music to which, who listens, had need biing docile thoughts and purged ears. Winter... | |
 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1860 - 312 pages
...species of verse .composed with an adaptation to musical accompaniments. It was well said by Charles Lamb that Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which who listens had need bring docile thoughts and purged ears. The observation... | |
 | Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald - Authors, English - 1866 - 274 pages
...would think of taking up the ' Fairy Queen ' for a stop-gap, or a volume of Bishop Andrews' Sermons ? " Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him . . . Winter evenings — the world shut out — with less of ceremony the gentle Shakspeare enters.... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1894 - 464 pages
...who would think of taking up the Fairy Queen for a stop-gap or a volume of Bishop Andrewes' sermons ? Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which, who listens, had need bring docile thoughts, and purged ears. Winter... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1867 - 582 pages
...would think of taking up the Fairy Queen for a stop-gap, or a volume of Bishop Andrewes' sermons ? Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which, who listens, had need bring docile thoughts, and purged ears. "Winter... | |
 | 1870 - 784 pages
...movement. Read in a palace it enhances the actual, tinging it with a more real glory. "Milton," says Lamb, "almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him." Spenser for a sylvan nook deep meadowed, shady, spacious, with Dame Nature's "properties" advantageously... | |
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Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played, before you enter upon him. But he brings his music— to which, who listens, had need bring docile thoughts and purged ears. Winter evenings — the world shut out — with less of ceremony... 
