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... head of the whole line , a picturesque survival from the great Elizabethan generation of the Spencer family which the great Elizabethan poet , their kinsman , had honoured in " the proud full sail " of his verse . She lived at the noble ...
... head of the whole line , a picturesque survival from the great Elizabethan generation of the Spencer family which the great Elizabethan poet , their kinsman , had honoured in " the proud full sail " of his verse . She lived at the noble ...
Page xxxvi
... head , his sword wrested from his hand , a glass broken , and a light extinguished . " Warton's abstract of the Old Wives Tale somewhat ac- centuates the resemblance . It does not strike us quite so forcibly when we read Peele's work ...
... head , his sword wrested from his hand , a glass broken , and a light extinguished . " Warton's abstract of the Old Wives Tale somewhat ac- centuates the resemblance . It does not strike us quite so forcibly when we read Peele's work ...
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... heads the list . Lower down we read " Lady Arabella . " This was the luckless heiress of the House of Lennox . In the exclusiveness of the Masque lay much of its charm . But one3 part of the performance had to be entrusted to ...
... heads the list . Lower down we read " Lady Arabella . " This was the luckless heiress of the House of Lennox . In the exclusiveness of the Masque lay much of its charm . But one3 part of the performance had to be entrusted to ...
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... head , Strict Age , and sour Severity , 100 With their grave saws , in slumber lie . 110 We , that are of purer fire , Imitate the starry quire , Who , in their nightly watchful spheres , Lead in swift round the months and years . The ...
... head , Strict Age , and sour Severity , 100 With their grave saws , in slumber lie . 110 We , that are of purer fire , Imitate the starry quire , Who , in their nightly watchful spheres , Lead in swift round the months and years . The ...
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... head , fraught with sad fears . What if in wild amazement and affright , Or , while we speak , within the direful grasp Of savage hunger , or of savage heat ! 340 350 Eld . Bro . Peace , brother : be not over - exquisite To cast the ...
... head , fraught with sad fears . What if in wild amazement and affright , Or , while we speak , within the direful grasp Of savage hunger , or of savage heat ! 340 350 Eld . Bro . Peace , brother : be not over - exquisite To cast the ...
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Milton's Arcades and Comus: With Introd., Notes and Indexes John Milton Affichage du livre entier - 1891 |
Milton's Arcades and Comus: With Introduction, Notes and Indexes A. W. Verity Aucun aperçu disponible - 2008 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
Adonis Æneid allusion Anti-masque Arcades Ben Jonson blank verse Brachet Bridgewater brother Cambridge charm Circe classical comedy Comus Cotgrave Countess Court dance derived Dict Dictionary dramatic Du Cange Earl Echo edition Egerton Elizabethan English entertainment epithet etymology Faerie Queene father Fletcher French Giles Fletcher goddess hath Heaven Hence honour Inigo Jones Italian Italy Jonson Jonson's Masque king Lady Latin latter Lawes Lear Lord Low Lat Low Latin Lycidas lyric Masque of Blackness Masque of Queens Masque-writers Masson Mayhew and Skeat meaning metaphor Midsummer N. D. Milton modern musician Nativity Ode nature night noble nymphs Odyssey original Paradise Lost passage pastoral performance perhaps phrase piece poem poet poetry present quæ quotes reference Romeo and Juliet Sabrina says scene sense Shakespeare Shepheards Calender Shepherd song Sonnet speaks spelling Spenser sphere spirits Tempest thee thou verb Vergil whence word writes
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Page 98 - For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires: The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.
Page 112 - How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year ! My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th.
Page 134 - But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
Page 5 - I was all ear, !(« And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of Death.
Page viii - I was confirmed in this opinion that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things ; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy.
Page 13 - There is a gentle Nymph not far from hence, That with moist curb sways the smooth Severn stream : Sabrina is her name, a virgin pure ; Whilom she was the daughter of Locrine, That had the sceptre from his father Brute. She, guiltless damsel, flying the mad pursuit Of her enraged stepdame Guendolen, Commended her fair innocence to the flood That stayed her flight with his cross-flowing course. The water-nymphs, that in the bottom played, Held up their pearled wrists, and took her in, Bearing her straight...
Page 77 - Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.
Page lxx - 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, And casts a gleam over this tufted grove.
Page lxxiii - I know each lane, and every alley green, Dingle, or bushy dell, of this wild wood, And every bosky bourn from side to side...
Page 165 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...