Comus: A MaskMathews and Leigh, 1808 - 89 pagina's |
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Pagina 65
... moral babble , and direct Against the canon - laws of our foundation ; 800 805 V. 797 - brute Earth ] The unfeeling Earth would sympathise and assist . It is Horace's Bruta tellus , Od . i . xxxiv . 9 . WARTON . V. 802. - And though not ...
... moral babble , and direct Against the canon - laws of our foundation ; 800 805 V. 797 - brute Earth ] The unfeeling Earth would sympathise and assist . It is Horace's Bruta tellus , Od . i . xxxiv . 9 . WARTON . V. 802. - And though not ...
Pagina 67
... moral impropriety . of an innocent invention , especially when introduced for a virtuous purpose ? In poetry false narrations are often more useful than true . Something , and something preternatural , and consequently false , but ...
... moral impropriety . of an innocent invention , especially when introduced for a virtuous purpose ? In poetry false narrations are often more useful than true . Something , and something preternatural , and consequently false , but ...
Pagina 68
... moral of both dramas is the triumph of chastity . This in both is finally brought about by the same sort of machinery . Sabrina , a virgin and a king's daughter , was converted into a river- nymph , that her honour might be preserved ...
... moral of both dramas is the triumph of chastity . This in both is finally brought about by the same sort of machinery . Sabrina , a virgin and a king's daughter , was converted into a river- nymph , that her honour might be preserved ...
Pagina 79
... Moral of this poem is very finely summed up in the six concluding lines . The thought , contained in the two last , might probably be suggested to our author by a passage in the Table of Cebes , where Patience and Perseverance are ...
... Moral of this poem is very finely summed up in the six concluding lines . The thought , contained in the two last , might probably be suggested to our author by a passage in the Table of Cebes , where Patience and Perseverance are ...
Pagina 81
... moral it teaches , there is nothing extant in any language like the Mask of Comus . TOLAND , Milton's Juvenile Poems are so no otherwise , than as they were written in his younger years ; for their dignity and excellence they are ...
... moral it teaches , there is nothing extant in any language like the Mask of Comus . TOLAND , Milton's Juvenile Poems are so no otherwise , than as they were written in his younger years ; for their dignity and excellence they are ...
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
afterwards allusion ancient appears arms beautiful Brothers called character charm chaste Chastity Circe composed Comus court dance daughter delight dialogue doth drama EARL OF BRIDGEWATER earldom of Bridgewater Echo edit enchanter English expression fable faery fair Faithful Shepherdess feast Fletcher's goddess golden Greek hath head Heaven Hecate Henry Lawes Homer honour HURD imagery king Lady Alice language Lawes's Locrine Lord Brackley Lord President Ludlow Castle magician magick Mask Masque Metam Milton mortal musick NEWTON night noble Nymph observed Ovid Paradise Lost passage perhaps poem poet poet's poetical poetry praise Prince Puteanus queen ribs of death Roger de Montgomery Sabrina says sentiments Shakspeare Shakspeare's shepherd Sidney sing Sir Henry sister song soon soul Spenser Spir Spirit sublime suppose swain sweet taste Tempest Thomas Egerton thou THYER Thyrsis TODD verse virgin Virtue Wales wand wander WARBURTON WARTON winding wood word written
Populaire passages
Pagina 39 - Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence.
Pagina 50 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And, in clear dream, and solemn vision, Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear...
Pagina 37 - Is now the labour of my thoughts ; 'tis likeliest They had engaged their wandering steps too far ; And envious darkness, ere they could return, Had stole them from me : else, O thievish night, Why shouldst thou, but for some felonious end, In thy dark lantern thus close up the stars. That nature hung in heaven, and fill'd their lamps With everlasting oil, to give due light To the misled and lonely traveller?
Pagina 55 - I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of Death...
Pagina 38 - 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...
Pagina 58 - The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flower, but not in this soil : Unknown, and like esteem'd, and the dull swain Treads on it daily with his clouted shoon...
Pagina 42 - Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots ; Their port was more than human, as they stood : I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i
Pagina 32 - The star that bids the shepherd fold Now the top of heaven doth hold ; And the gilded car of day His glowing axle doth allay In the steep Atlantic stream : And the slope sun his upward beam Shoots against the dusky pole, Pacing toward the other goal Of his chamber in the east.
Pagina 37 - By a strong siding champion, conscience. 0 welcome, pure-eyed Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering angel girt with golden wings, And thou unblemish'd form of Chastity ; 1 see ye visibly, and now believe That he, the Supreme Good, to...
Pagina 33 - Meanwhile welcome Joy, and Feast, Midnight Shout and Revelry, Tipsy Dance and Jollity. Braid your locks with rosy twine, Dropping odours, dropping wine Rigour now is gone to bed, And Advice with scrupulous head, Strict Age, and sour Severity, With their grave saws in slumber lie.