Milton's LycidasBlackie & son, limited, 1902 - 112 páginas |
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... sonnet On Being Arrived at the Age of Twenty - three , which I shall quote , as it contains not only fourteen lines of noble poetry , but also a certain amount of matter interesting otherwise . " How soon hath Time , the subtle thief of ...
... sonnet On Being Arrived at the Age of Twenty - three , which I shall quote , as it contains not only fourteen lines of noble poetry , but also a certain amount of matter interesting otherwise . " How soon hath Time , the subtle thief of ...
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... " inward ripeness " , and how resolute to attain that lot towards which Time and the will of Heaven were leading him , is apparent not only from the Sonnet but also Lo a letter , in which he enclosed the Sonnet 14 LYCIDAS.
... " inward ripeness " , and how resolute to attain that lot towards which Time and the will of Heaven were leading him , is apparent not only from the Sonnet but also Lo a letter , in which he enclosed the Sonnet 14 LYCIDAS.
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... Sonnet to the Nightingale and the Arcades , the four great poems of what may be called his first period - the period during which the austerity of Puritanism was still tempered by the innocent delights of the senses and the warm ...
... Sonnet to the Nightingale and the Arcades , the four great poems of what may be called his first period - the period during which the austerity of Puritanism was still tempered by the innocent delights of the senses and the warm ...
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... ( Sonnet i ) that " it honours the grassy vale of Rhine and the noble pass " . But in Sonnet iv . 14 he uses the word " Alba " evidently in two senses , i.e. for " dawn " and as his lady's name ( the line means both " till rosy morn ...
... ( Sonnet i ) that " it honours the grassy vale of Rhine and the noble pass " . But in Sonnet iv . 14 he uses the word " Alba " evidently in two senses , i.e. for " dawn " and as his lady's name ( the line means both " till rosy morn ...
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... . Except about a dozen sonnets he seems to have written no verse . I resolved , " he says , " though then meditating other matters " ( his eagle - flight being , doubtless , one great matter of meditation ) , " to transfer INTRODUCTION 19.
... . Except about a dozen sonnets he seems to have written no verse . I resolved , " he says , " though then meditating other matters " ( his eagle - flight being , doubtless , one great matter of meditation ) , " to transfer INTRODUCTION 19.
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Aeneid Ajacis altered ancient Arcades beauty BLACKIE'S Browne called Cambridge Church classical colour Comus criticism Crown 8vo Dante death Delphinium E. K. Chambers Edited by E. K. Edited by John ELEMENTARY English epithet Essay F'cap 8vo Faerie Queene flower FRENCH G. A. Henty genius German Greek Henry HISTORY hyacinth iambic Illustrated imaginative Jerome Harrison Jerram John Downie Johnson Julius Cæsar Keith Leask King L'Allegro larkspur Latin lily lines literary Lycidas M. A. Cloth Macaulay Macaulay-Essay means Milton Milton's earlier poems Milton's verse mind modern Muses nature Numbers Paradise Lost Paradise Regained passage pastoral Penseroso perhaps petals poet poetic poetry probably PROSE reader regard rhythm rime Ruskin says seems Shakespeare shepherds sing song sonnet speaks Spenser star Stopford Brooke STORIES syllables TEXT-BOOK Theocritus thought tion translation true VERE FOSTER'S Verity Virgil words writers written
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Página 51 - Say there be; Yet nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean: so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race: this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Página 70 - And hears the unexpressive nuptial song In the blest kingdoms meek of joy and love. There entertain him all the Saints above, In solemn troops, and sweet societies, That sing, and singing in their glory move, And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes.
Página 45 - 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...
Página 67 - Alas! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair?
Página 66 - Lycidas ? For neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your old bards, the famous Druids, lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream. Ay me, I fondly dream ! Had ye been there...
Página 65 - Without the meed of some melodious tear. Begin then, Sisters of the sacred well That from beneath the seat of Jove doth spring, Begin, and somewhat loudly sweep the string.
Página 69 - Herdman's art belongs! What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel Pipes of wretched straw, The hungry Sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread : Besides what the grim Wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said. But that two-handed engine at the door, Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.
Página 69 - Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues.
Página 68 - That to the faithful herdman's art belongs ! What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw; The hungry sheep look up, and are...
Página 13 - 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.