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... Thou kenst not , Percy , how the RIME fhould rage , O , if my temples were diftaind with wine , And girt in girlonds of wilde iuie twine , How should I reare the Mufe on ftately ftage , And teach her tread aloft in buskin fine , With ...
... Thou kenst not , Percy , how the RIME fhould rage , O , if my temples were diftaind with wine , And girt in girlonds of wilde iuie twine , How should I reare the Mufe on ftately ftage , And teach her tread aloft in buskin fine , With ...
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... thou art gone , Now thou art gone , and never must return ! 36 30. Oft till the far that rofe , at evening , bright . ] Thus the edition 1645. In the edition of 1638 , and Cambridge manufcript , Oft till the evn - ftarre bright . And in ...
... thou art gone , Now thou art gone , and never must return ! 36 30. Oft till the far that rofe , at evening , bright . ] Thus the edition 1645. In the edition of 1638 , and Cambridge manufcript , Oft till the evn - ftarre bright . And in ...
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... thou GADILING . 45. As killing as the canker to the rofe . ] Shakespeare is fond of this image , who , from frequent repetition , feems to have fuggefted it to Milton . SONN . lxx . For CANKER Vice the SWEETEST BUDS doth love . Again ...
... thou GADILING . 45. As killing as the canker to the rofe . ] Shakespeare is fond of this image , who , from frequent repetition , feems to have fuggefted it to Milton . SONN . lxx . For CANKER Vice the SWEETEST BUDS doth love . Again ...
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... thou perhaps under the whelming tide Vifit'st the bottom of the monstrous world ; Or whether thou to our moist vows deny'd , 156 153. With falfe " furmife ; " ] The new fense which I mean to give to the remainder of the paragraph ...
... thou perhaps under the whelming tide Vifit'st the bottom of the monstrous world ; Or whether thou to our moist vows deny'd , 156 153. With falfe " furmife ; " ] The new fense which I mean to give to the remainder of the paragraph ...
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... thou goddess fair and free . ] Compare Drayton , ECL . iv . vol . iv . p . 1401 . A daughter cleped Dowfabell , A maiden FAIR AND FREE . In the metrical romances , these two words thus paired together , are a common epithet for a lady ...
... thou goddess fair and free . ] Compare Drayton , ECL . iv . vol . iv . p . 1401 . A daughter cleped Dowfabell , A maiden FAIR AND FREE . In the metrical romances , these two words thus paired together , are a common epithet for a lady ...
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againſt alfo allufion alſo Amor antient becauſe called COMUS Doctor Newton doth Drayton edit English Euripides expreffion FAERIE QUEENE faid FAITHFUL SHEPHERDESS fame fays fecond feems fenfe fent fhades fhall fhew fhould fide fing firft firſt Fletcher folemn fome fong foon foul ftill ftream ftyle fubject fuch fuppofed fupr fweet hath heaven Henry Lawes HEROID himſelf houſe ibid IL PENSEROSO inchanted inftances ipfe John Milton Jonfon king L'ALLEGRO Lady laft laſt Latin Lond Lord Lord Brackley LYCIDAS manufcript Maſk METAM mihi Milton moft moſt mufic muſt night Note Nymphs obferves Ovid paffage paftoral PARAD PARADISE LOST perhaps pleaſure poem poet poetry praiſe prefent profe PROSE-WORKS publiſhed quę queen Robin Goodfellow SAMSON AGONISTES Shakespeare ſhall ſhe Shepherd Sonnet ſpeak Spenfer ſtate thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou tibi uſed verfe verſe whofe whoſe wood
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Page 267 - The Lars, and Lemures, moan with midnight plaint ; In urns and altars round, A drear and dying sound Affrights the Flamens at their service quaint ; And the chill marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar power foregoes his wonted seat.
Page 10 - scapes not calumnious strokes : The canker galls the infants of the spring, Too oft before their buttons be disclosed, And in the morn and liquid dew of youth Contagious blastments are most imminent.
Page 31 - Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor. So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed. And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Page 92 - As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes. And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Page 43 - Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe; And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty; And if I give thee honour due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her, and live with thee In unreprove'd pleasures free...
Page 4 - Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due : For Lycidas* is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.
Page 350 - Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Page 34 - Under the opening eye-lids of the morn, We drove a-field, and both together heard What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn...
Page 63 - Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys ? Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the sunbeams ; Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus
Page 74 - Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom...