Old Law did save, And such as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. Her face was... The Book of the Sonnet - Page 180edited by - 1867Full view - About this book
| John Milton - 1707 - 480 pages
...hour, refrains. . . . XIX, . -. . Methought I faw my late efpoufed Saint Brought to me like Alceflis from the grave, Whom Jove's great Son to her glad Husband gave, Refcu'd from death by force though pale and faint. Mine as whom walht from fpot of child- bed taint,... | |
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...;" which appeared in 1654. Morus was highly chagrined at a truth told by Milton in * ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alceftis, from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescu'd from death by force,... | |
| John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 624 pages
...I replunged io night," ould perhaps be sufficiently unexcepionable. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. Metbought I saw my late espoused saint, Brought to me, like...Death by force, though pale and faint: Mine, as whom, wash'd from spot of childbed taint. Purification in the old law did save, And such, as yet once more... | |
| Lyre - Love poetry, English - 1806 - 208 pages
...part Where Ix>ve incurably hath fix'd his dart. 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, Bescued from death by force, though pale and faint. Mine, as whom wash'd from spot of child-bed taint,... | |
| John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 602 pages
...waked—she fled: and I replunged in night," would perhaps be sufficiently unexceptionable. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. Methought I saw my late espoused saint, Brought to me, like Alcestis, from the grave, Wiom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescued from Death by force, though pale and faint:... | |
| British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...and of their train am I. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. 'Vf ETHOUGHT I saw my late-espoused Saint, * Bronght to me, like Alcestis, from the grave; Whom Jove's...her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by force, thongh pale and faint. Mine, as whom wash'd from spot of child-bed taint, Purification in the' Old... | |
| Charles Symmons - 1810 - 690 pages
...458. — —— et noctis caligine caeci Ceraere censemus golem, lumenque diurnum. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. Methought I saw my late espoused saint, Brought...Death by force, though pale and faint: Mine, as whom, wash'd from spot of childbed taint, Purification in the old law did save, And such as yet once moie... | |
| William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 472 pages
...with the tenderness that reigns in the pa. thetic poetry of Milton : in the opening of tliis sonnet ; Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to...son to her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by foree, tho" pale and faint : and in the latter part of it, Her face was veil'd, yet to my fancied sight... | |
| William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 pages
...mask Content though bliryl, had I no better guide. vOL. IV. T XVIII. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. METHOI'(;HT I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis,...grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescu'd from death by force, though pale and faint. Mine, as whom wash'd from spot of child-bed taint... | |
| John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...world's vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide. XVIII. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. MJETHOUGHT I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis;...grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescu'd from death by force, though pale and faint. Mine, as whom wash'd from spot of child-bed taint... | |
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