 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 602 pages
...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:... | |
 | 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 Alcestis, from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescued from Death by force, though pale and faint:... | |
 | 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 me, like Alcestis, from the grave, . Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by foree, tho" pale and faint... | |
 | Charles Symmons - 1810 - 684 pages
...iv. 458. . et noctis caligine caeci Cernere censemus solem, lumenque diurnum. 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. Rescued from Death by force, though pale and faint... | |
 | 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, from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescu'd from death by force, though pale and faint.... | |
 | 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; from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescu'd from death by force, though pale and faint.... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...repair his strength, And fainting spirits uphold. ยง 14. Sonnel: on his deceased Wife. MILTON. MBTHOUGHT I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave, Whom Jdve's great son to her glad husband gave, [faint. Rescued from death by force, though pale and... | |
 | England - 1838 - 884 pages
...not glide in with the stillness of night, and, enacting life, draw Milton's curtain t " Me thought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis, from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gare, Rescu'd from death by force, though pale and faint.... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 366 pages
...world's vain mask Content, though blind, had I no better guide. XXIII. ON IltS DECEASED WIFE.* METHOUOHT I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis, from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by force, tho' pale and faint. Mine,... | |
 | 1822 - 592 pages
...gives such voluptuous dignity and touching purity to Milton's delineation of the female character. " 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, Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint.... | |
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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, Rescued from death by force though pale and faint. 
