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Page xlv
... meaning , or had they entertained an Allegory . a prophet unawares ? Perhaps some present felt that this was a Masque not quite like any they had seen in the great banquet - room at Whitehall or the lawyer's Inns of Court ; an ...
... meaning , or had they entertained an Allegory . a prophet unawares ? Perhaps some present felt that this was a Masque not quite like any they had seen in the great banquet - room at Whitehall or the lawyer's Inns of Court ; an ...
Page xlviii
... meaning or feeling1 " . Mr Saintsbury writes to the same effect when he finds the secret of Milton's pre- eminence in the skill with which the poet builds what may be called the verse - paragraph ? " Blank verse , he points out , is ...
... meaning or feeling1 " . Mr Saintsbury writes to the same effect when he finds the secret of Milton's pre- eminence in the skill with which the poet builds what may be called the verse - paragraph ? " Blank verse , he points out , is ...
Page xlix
... meaning , which , therefore , do not twist or strain the sense , and which are regulated by an internal concent and harmony as subtly balanced as a chorus of Sophocles . Milton formulated his theory of blank verse in the preface to ...
... meaning , which , therefore , do not twist or strain the sense , and which are regulated by an internal concent and harmony as subtly balanced as a chorus of Sophocles . Milton formulated his theory of blank verse in the preface to ...
Page 37
... meaning in these gifts ; Think what , and be advised ; you are but young yet . Lady . I had not thought to have unlocked my lips In this unhallowed air , but that this juggler Would think to charm my judgment , as mine eyes , Obtruding ...
... meaning in these gifts ; Think what , and be advised ; you are but young yet . Lady . I had not thought to have unlocked my lips In this unhallowed air , but that this juggler Would think to charm my judgment , as mine eyes , Obtruding ...
Page 47
... meaning of dowager is lost : the word merely distinguishes the widow of a nobleman from the wife of the heir who succeeds to his title . Shake- speare , however , uses dowager with much closer reference to its proper sense . Cf ...
... meaning of dowager is lost : the word merely distinguishes the widow of a nobleman from the wife of the heir who succeeds to his title . Shake- speare , however , uses dowager with much closer reference to its proper sense . Cf ...
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
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...