Milton's LycidasGinn and Heath, 1879 - 38 pages |
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... poem , the object of introducing them will have been gained . Some explanation of the two which stand respec- * In regard to the use of capital letters , the authority of Wilson on Punctu- ation has generally been followed . tively at ...
... poem , the object of introducing them will have been gained . Some explanation of the two which stand respec- * In regard to the use of capital letters , the authority of Wilson on Punctu- ation has generally been followed . tively at ...
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... poetry ; so great that when once we have come to know and honor and love it , it so subdues the judgment that the judgment can with difficulty do its work with tem- perance . . . . No style , when one has lived in it , is so spacious ...
... poetry ; so great that when once we have come to know and honor and love it , it so subdues the judgment that the judgment can with difficulty do its work with tem- perance . . . . No style , when one has lived in it , is so spacious ...
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... poem has grown grander , and Milton's genius has seemed more angelic . May this slight contribution lead at least a few others to love more warmly this kingliest of English souls , and to study more intelligently and more reverently ...
... poem has grown grander , and Milton's genius has seemed more angelic . May this slight contribution lead at least a few others to love more warmly this kingliest of English souls , and to study more intelligently and more reverently ...
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... poem , though perhaps the best that could have been chosen , hardly indicates beforehand the full extent of the theme . Nor are the opening lines sufficiently descriptive of what is to fol- low . According to them , the song is to be ...
... poem , though perhaps the best that could have been chosen , hardly indicates beforehand the full extent of the theme . Nor are the opening lines sufficiently descriptive of what is to fol- low . According to them , the song is to be ...
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... poem . He and his actions are the link between that new World of Man , the infancy of which we behold in the poem , and that boundless antecedent Universe of Pre - human existence which the poem assumes . For he was a native of that pre ...
... poem . He and his actions are the link between that new World of Man , the infancy of which we behold in the poem , and that boundless antecedent Universe of Pre - human existence which the poem assumes . For he was a native of that pre ...
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Page 8 - 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 10 Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious tear.
Page 6 - YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. 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.
Page 14 - Ay me, I fondly dream! Had ye been there — for what could that have done? What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself, for her enchanting son, Whom universal nature did lament, 60 When by the rout that made the hideous roar His gory visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore?
Page xxix - Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet— Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave; nor did there want Cornice or frieze, with bossy sculptures graven: The roof was fretted gold.
Page 10 - To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...
Page 5 - LYCIDAS In this Monody the Author bewails a learned Friend, unfortunately drowned in his passage from Chester on the Irish Seas, 1637 ; and, by occasion, foretells the ruin of our corrupted Clergy, then in their height. YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year.
Page 34 - Through the dear might of Him that walked the waves; Where, other groves and other streams along, With nectar pure his oozy locks he laves, 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.
Page 27 - In billows, leave i' the midst a horrid vale. Then with expanded wings he steers his flight Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air, That felt unusual weight; till on dry land He lights; if it were land that ever...
Page 32 - Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...