ComusCambridge University Press, 1912 - 143 pages |
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Page xxiii
... called for a manuscript of his ; which , being brought , he delivered to me , bidding me take it home with me and read it at my leisure , and , when I had so done , return it to him with my judgment there- upon . When I came home , and ...
... called for a manuscript of his ; which , being brought , he delivered to me , bidding me take it home with me and read it at my leisure , and , when I had so done , return it to him with my judgment there- upon . When I came home , and ...
Page xxxi
... called Comus . It was written by a Dutchman , Hendrik van der Putten ( better known under the name of Erycius Puteanus ) , sometime professor at Louvain . First printed in 1608 , his Comus was reissued at Oxford in 1634 , a remarkable ...
... called Comus . It was written by a Dutchman , Hendrik van der Putten ( better known under the name of Erycius Puteanus ) , sometime professor at Louvain . First printed in 1608 , his Comus was reissued at Oxford in 1634 , a remarkable ...
Page xlii
... Paradise Lost demands a statelier , slower movement . This extrametrical syllable at the end of a line is commonly called the " double " or " feminine " ending . Note that it is of two kinds - where the xlii INTRODUCTION .
... Paradise Lost demands a statelier , slower movement . This extrametrical syllable at the end of a line is commonly called the " double " or " feminine " ending . Note that it is of two kinds - where the xlii INTRODUCTION .
Page 11
... called but when the dragon womb Of Stygian darkness spets her thickest gloom , And makes one blot of all the air ! Stay thy cloudy ebon chair , Wherein thou ridest with Hecate , and befriend Us thy vowed priests , till utmost end Of all ...
... called but when the dragon womb Of Stygian darkness spets her thickest gloom , And makes one blot of all the air ! Stay thy cloudy ebon chair , Wherein thou ridest with Hecate , and befriend Us thy vowed priests , till utmost end Of all ...
Page 26
... called it Hæmony , and gave it me , And bade me keep it as of sovran use ' Gainst all enchantments , mildew blast , or damp , Or ghastly Furies ' apparition . I pursed it up , but little reckoning made , Till now that this extremity ...
... called it Hæmony , and gave it me , And bade me keep it as of sovran use ' Gainst all enchantments , mildew blast , or damp , Or ghastly Furies ' apparition . I pursed it up , but little reckoning made , Till now that this extremity ...
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