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" That musing meditation most affects The pensive secrecy of desert cell, Far from the cheerful haunt of men and herds, And sits as safe as in a senate-house ; For who would rob a hermit of his weeds, His few books, or his beads, or maple dish... "
Bell's British Theatre: Comus, by J. Milton. ... Love in a village, by I ... - Page 32
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The Poetical Works of John Milton

John Milton - Puritans - 1912 - 586 pages
...who would rob a Hermit of his Weeds, 390 His few Books, or his Beads, or Maple Dish, Or do his gray hairs any violence ? But beauty like the fair Hesperian...blooming gold, had need the guard Of dragon watch with uninchanted eye, To save her blossoms, and defend her fruit From the rash hand of bold Incontinence....
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Milton & His Poetry

William Henry Hudson - 1912 - 198 pages
...desert cell, Far from the cheerful haunt of men and herds, And sits as safe as in a senate house : For who would rob a hermit of his weeds, His few books, or his beads, or maple dish, Or do his gray hairs any violence ? But Beauty, like the fair Hesperian tree 1 Laden with blooming gold, had...
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Walter Pater: A Critical Study

Edward Thomas - 1913 - 242 pages
...of the eyes. He is doing what a man might do if, on hearing someone too solemn-unctuously repeating But Beauty, like the fair Hesperian tree Laden with...need the guard Of dragon watch with unenchanted eye, . . . he should give a brief history of masks, by laureates and others, up to the time when Comus was...
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Walter Pater: A Critical Study

Edward Thomas - 1913 - 246 pages
...hearing someone too solemn-unctuously repeating But Beauty, like the fair Hesperian tree I .ruli-n with blooming gold, had need the guard Of dragon watch with unenchanted eye, . . . he should give a brief history of masks, by laureates and others, up to the time when Comus was...
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Minor Poems

John Milton - English poetry - 1914 - 140 pages
...men and herds, And sits as safe as in a senate-house ; For who would rob a Hermit of his weeds, 390 His few books, or his beads, or maple dish, Or do...Tree Laden with blooming gold, had need the guard Of dragon-watch with unenchanted eye 395 To save her blossoms, and defend her fruit, From the rash hand...
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Comus: & Lycidas

John Milton - 1919 - 276 pages
...who would rob a .hermit of his weeds, 390 JHis few books, or his beads, or maple dish, Or do his gray hairs any violence ? But Beauty, like the fair Hesperian...tree Laden with blooming gold, had need the guard Of dragon-watch with unenchanted eye, To save her blossoms, and defend her fruit, From the rash hand of...
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The Complete Poetical Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1892 - 672 pages
...men and herds, And sits as safe as in a senate-house ; or who would rob a hermit of his weeds, 390 His few books, or his beads, or maple dish, Or do...tree Laden with blooming gold, had need the guard Of dragon-watch with unenchanted eye To save her blossoms, and defend her fruit, From the rash hand of...
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A Study of the Types of Literature

Mabel Irene Rich - American literature - 1921 - 582 pages
...who would rob a hermit of his Weeds, 39° His few books, or hist beads, or maple dish, Or do his gray hairs any violence? But beauty, like the fair Hesperian...tree Laden with blooming gold, had need the guard Of dragon-watch witli unonchnnted eye 395 From the rash hand of bold Incontinence. You may as well spread...
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A Study of the Types of Literature

Mabel Irene Rich - American literature - 1921 - 576 pages
...men and herds, And sits as safe as in a senate-house; For who would rob a hermit of his weeds, 39° His few books, or his beads, or maple dish, Or' do his gray hairs any violence? But beauty, like the fair Hesperian tree Laden with blooming gold, had need...
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The Infinitive, the Gerund and the Participles of the English Verb

Hendrik Poutsma - English language - 1923 - 256 pages
...found construed with a noun. Of this construction ^T no Late Modern English instances have been found. But Beauty, like the fair Hesperian tree | Laden with...the guard \ Of dragon watch with unenchanted eye, I To save her blossoms, and defend her fruit I From the rash hand of bold Incontinence, MILTON, Comus,...
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