ComusCambridge University Press, 1912 - 143 pages |
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Page xii
... True , Milton gave more than one earnest of his future Milton's fame . The dates of the early pieces- lyric verse ; L'Allegro , Il Penseroso , Arcades , Comus its relation to contem- and Lycidas - are not all certain ; but pro- porary ...
... True , Milton gave more than one earnest of his future Milton's fame . The dates of the early pieces- lyric verse ; L'Allegro , Il Penseroso , Arcades , Comus its relation to contem- and Lycidas - are not all certain ; but pro- porary ...
Page xiii
... true way to liberty followed on from these beginnings , inasmuch also as I had so prepared myself from my youth that , above all things , I could not be ignorant what is of Divine and what of human right , I resolved , though I was then ...
... true way to liberty followed on from these beginnings , inasmuch also as I had so prepared myself from my youth that , above all things , I could not be ignorant what is of Divine and what of human right , I resolved , though I was then ...
Page xv
... true Copies . The Songs were set in Musick by Mr. Henry Lawes , gentleman of the King's Chappel , and one of His Majesties private Musick . -Baccare frontem Cingite , ne vati noceat mala lingua futuro . ' VIRG . Ecl . 7 . Printed and ...
... true Copies . The Songs were set in Musick by Mr. Henry Lawes , gentleman of the King's Chappel , and one of His Majesties private Musick . -Baccare frontem Cingite , ne vati noceat mala lingua futuro . ' VIRG . Ecl . 7 . Printed and ...
Page xix
... true poem , that is , a composition and pattern of the best and honour- 1 This is equally true of Samson Agonistes . ablest things , not1 presuming to sing high praises of LIFE OF MILTON . xix COMUS 1-38.
... true poem , that is , a composition and pattern of the best and honour- 1 This is equally true of Samson Agonistes . ablest things , not1 presuming to sing high praises of LIFE OF MILTON . xix COMUS 1-38.
Page xxxvii
... true yesterday , to - day , and for ever ; and the art with which it is enforced remains undimmed , the wisdom unfading . Johnson had fault to find with the songs in Comus . He considered them " harsh " and " not very musical . " This ...
... true yesterday , to - day , and for ever ; and the art with which it is enforced remains undimmed , the wisdom unfading . Johnson had fault to find with the songs in Comus . He considered them " harsh " and " not very musical . " This ...
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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