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Page xv
... spell , the rest was silence , so far as concerned poetry . The period which for all men represents the strength and maturity of manhood , which in the cases of other poets produces the best and most characteristic work , is with Milton ...
... spell , the rest was silence , so far as concerned poetry . The period which for all men represents the strength and maturity of manhood , which in the cases of other poets produces the best and most characteristic work , is with Milton ...
Page xxxix
... spell which Fletcher's genius exercised on Milton . Milton chose the story of the goddess who swayed the Severn stream in compliment to his audience . It suited the scene and the setting of his Masque ; and his treatment of the theme ...
... spell which Fletcher's genius exercised on Milton . Milton chose the story of the goddess who swayed the Severn stream in compliment to his audience . It suited the scene and the setting of his Masque ; and his treatment of the theme ...
Page lii
... spelling with a k , determined , presumably , by the Italian ch , appears to be earlier than the duplicate form Masque . For the latter cf. the French masque , masquerade . France , like England , borrowed it among the numerous Italian ...
... spelling with a k , determined , presumably , by the Italian ch , appears to be earlier than the duplicate form Masque . For the latter cf. the French masque , masquerade . France , like England , borrowed it among the numerous Italian ...
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... spelling , the derivation being clear : anti , masque , i.e. " foil , or false masque . " Plausible forms are ante - masque and antic - masque : the former , because the Anti- masque generally preceded the serious part of the ...
... spelling , the derivation being clear : anti , masque , i.e. " foil , or false masque . " Plausible forms are ante - masque and antic - masque : the former , because the Anti- masque generally preceded the serious part of the ...
Page 40
... spell , If she be right invoked in warbled song ; For maidenhood she loves , and will be swift To aid a virgin , such as was herself , In hard - besetting need . This will I try , And add the power of some adjuring verse . Sabrina fair ...
... spell , If she be right invoked in warbled song ; For maidenhood she loves , and will be swift To aid a virgin , such as was herself , In hard - besetting need . This will I try , And add the power of some adjuring verse . Sabrina fair ...
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...