ComusCambridge University Press, 1912 - 143 pages |
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... soul , And lap it in Elysium : Scylla wept , And chid her barking waves into attention , And fell Charybdis murmured soft applause . Yet they in pleasing slumber lulled the sense , 260 And in sweet madness robbed it of itself ; But such ...
... soul , And lap it in Elysium : Scylla wept , And chid her barking waves into attention , And fell Charybdis murmured soft applause . Yet they in pleasing slumber lulled the sense , 260 And in sweet madness robbed it of itself ; But such ...
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... he that hides a dark soul , and foul thoughts , Benighted walks under the mid - day sun ; Himself is his own dungeon . Second Brother . ' Tis most true 380 That musing Meditation most affects The pensive secrecy of desert 18 COMUS .
... he that hides a dark soul , and foul thoughts , Benighted walks under the mid - day sun ; Himself is his own dungeon . Second Brother . ' Tis most true 380 That musing Meditation most affects The pensive secrecy of desert 18 COMUS .
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... soul's essence , Till all be made immortal . But when lust , By unchaste looks , loose gestures , and foul talk , But most by lewd and lavish act of sin , Lets in defilement to the inward parts , The soul grows clotted by contagion ...
... soul's essence , Till all be made immortal . But when lust , By unchaste looks , loose gestures , and foul talk , But most by lewd and lavish act of sin , Lets in defilement to the inward parts , The soul grows clotted by contagion ...
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... soul Under the ribs of Death : but , Oh ! ere long Too well I did perceive it was the voice Of my most honoured Lady , your dear sister . Amazed I stood , harrowed with grief and fear ; And ' O poor hapless nightingale , ' thought I ...
... soul Under the ribs of Death : but , Oh ! ere long Too well I did perceive it was the voice Of my most honoured Lady , your dear sister . Amazed I stood , harrowed with grief and fear ; And ' O poor hapless nightingale , ' thought I ...
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... soul , to apprehend The sublime notion and high mystery That must be uttered to unfold the sage And serious doctrine of Virginity ; 780 And thou art worthy that thou shouldst not know More happiness than this thy present lot . Enjoy ...
... soul , to apprehend The sublime notion and high mystery That must be uttered to unfold the sage And serious doctrine of Virginity ; 780 And thou art worthy that thou shouldst not know More happiness than this thy present lot . Enjoy ...
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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