ComusCambridge University Press, 1912 - 143 pages |
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... charms " ( 150 ) . Observe that inversion generally gives some emphasis to the word . Much the commonest inversion is that of the first foot . Indeed , this use of an initial trochee is one of the most characteristic points in Milton's ...
... charms " ( 150 ) . Observe that inversion generally gives some emphasis to the word . Much the commonest inversion is that of the first foot . Indeed , this use of an initial trochee is one of the most characteristic points in Milton's ...
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... in these woods ! Now to my charms , And to my wily trains : I shall ere long 150 Be well stocked with as fair a herd as grazed About my mother Circe . Thus I hurl My dazzling spells into the spongy air , Of power COMUS . II.
... in these woods ! Now to my charms , And to my wily trains : I shall ere long 150 Be well stocked with as fair a herd as grazed About my mother Circe . Thus I hurl My dazzling spells into the spongy air , Of power COMUS . II.
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... Far other arms and other weapons must Be those that quell the might of hellish charms ; He with his bare wand can unthread thy joints , And crumble all thy sinews . 600 610 Elder Brother . Why , prithee , Shepherd , How COMUS . 25.
... Far other arms and other weapons must Be those that quell the might of hellish charms ; He with his bare wand can unthread thy joints , And crumble all thy sinews . 600 610 Elder Brother . Why , prithee , Shepherd , How COMUS . 25.
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... charms , although this corporal rind Thou hast immanacled , while Heaven sees good . Comus . Why are you vexed , Lady ? why do you frown ? Here dwell no frowns , nor anger ; from these gates Sorrow flies far . See , here be all the ...
... charms , although this corporal rind Thou hast immanacled , while Heaven sees good . Comus . Why are you vexed , Lady ? why do you frown ? Here dwell no frowns , nor anger ; from these gates Sorrow flies far . See , here be all the ...
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... charm my judgment , as mine eyes , Obtruding false rules pranked in reason's garb . I hate when Vice can bolt her arguments And Virtue has no tongue to check her pride . Impostor ! do not charge most innocent Nature , As if she would ...
... charm my judgment , as mine eyes , Obtruding false rules pranked in reason's garb . I hate when Vice can bolt her arguments And Virtue has no tongue to check her pride . Impostor ! do not charge most innocent Nature , As if she would ...
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Adonis Æneid allusion Ben Jonson blank verse called Cambridge character charmed chastity Circe classical Comus crown dance daughter Earl of Bridgewater Echo Elder Brother Elizabethan enchanted English epithet Estrildis evil eyes Faerie Queene fair favourite Germ Glossary goddess gods hath Heaven hence Henry Wotton Homer honour Il Penseroso influence Italy Jonson King L'Allegro Lady Latin Lawes's legend Locrine Lord Lord Brackley Ludlow Castle Lycidas lyric Masque Masson metaphor Midsummer-Night's Dream Milton nature night noun nymph Odyssey original Paradise Lost passage pastoral Penseroso perhaps phrase piece pleasure poem poet poetic poetry probably Puritanism reference rhyme rhythm river Sabrina Sabrina fair Samson Agonistes says scene sense Shakespeare Shepheards Calender shepherd Sir Henry song Sonnet soul speaks Spenser Spirit stage-direction story sweet syllable Tempest Tennyson thou Thyrsis trochee verb virgin Virtue wood word writers youth