 Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by force though pale and faint.  Walks in London - Page 288by Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1894Full view - About this book
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 414 pages
...gives such voluptuous dignity and touching purity to Milton's delineation of the female character. " Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave. Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint.... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...and ocean without rest ; They also serve who only stand and wait.' ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. MBTHOUGHT I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis, from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint.... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 312 pages
...through the world's vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide. XXIII. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. METHOUGHT I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint.... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 524 pages
...ever loved, he addressed the following sonnet, rather a dull one in its way, after her death : — Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by force, tho' pale and faint. Mine>... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 1042 pages
...ever loved, he addressed the following sonnet, rather a dull one in its way, after her death : — Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by force, tho' pale and faint. Minei... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...through the world's vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide. XXIII. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. METHOUGHT I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis, from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by force, tho' pale and faint. Mine,... | |
 | Alexander Dyce - 1833 - 240 pages
...the world's vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide. JOHN MILTON. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. METHOUGHT I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis, from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescu'd from Death by force, though pale and faint.... | |
 | University of Oxford - 1833 - 146 pages
...[Dean Ireland's Scholarship, 1841.] III. For Latin Hexameters. " Terra; Motus." For Latin Elegiacs. Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint.... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1837 - 394 pages
...marriage. He honoured her memory with what Johnson (out upon him !) calls a poor sonnet ; it is the one beginning Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis from the grave ; which, in its solemn and tender strain of feeling and modulated harmony, reminds us of Dante. He... | |
 | Theodore Dwight Woolsey - 1837 - 288 pages
...alluùes to this play of his favorite author in the opening lines of the sonnet on his deceased wife : " Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Ransomed from death by force, though pale and faint."... | |
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