Comus: With Introd. and NotesMacmillan, 1891 - 117 pages |
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Abbott adjective adverb allusion azurn Ben Jonson Bridgewater bright called charm chastity Chaucer Circe clause cognate common comp Compare Comus connected Corineus crowned Cupid dance darkness dative daughter denote divine earth Elder Brother Elizabethan English enchanted epithet evil eyes Faerie Faerie Queene fair flowers frequently goddess gods Greek hath Heaven hence Hymn Nat Il Pens Il Penseroso implies Jonson's L'Alleg L'Allegro Lady Latin Locrine Lord Brackley Lost Lycidas Macbeth magic mask masque Masson meaning MICHAEL MACMILLAN Milton Moly mortal Nereus night nightingale noun nymph Odyssey Ovid participle Pens Penseroso phrase poem poet prefix preposition Presidency College pronoun Queen radical refers Sabrina Second Brother sense sewed Shakespeare sheen shepherd song soul spells Spenser spheres Spirit stars sweet syllable Tennyson's thee thou Thyrsis Ulysses verb virgin Virtue Warton wings word youth دو
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Page 16 - I saw them under a green mantling vine, That crawls along the side of yon small hill, Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots ; Their port was more than human, as they stood I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live,
Page xi - He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i' the centre, and enjoy bright day : But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun ; Himself is his own dungeon. In
Page 109 - From the heavens now I fly, And those happy climes that lie Where day never shuts his eye, Up in the broad field of the sky. There I suck the liquid air All amidst the gardens fair Of Hesperus, and his daughters three That sing about the golden tree. There eternal summer dwells, And
Page 109 - There eternal summer dwells, And west winds, with musky wing, About the cedarn alleys fling Nard and cassia's balmy smells. Iris there with humid bow Waters the odorous banks, that blow Flowers of more mingled hue Than her purfled scarf can show,
Page 17 - Perhaps some cold bank is her bolster now, Or 'gainst the rugged bark of some broad elm Leans her unpillowed head, fraught with sad fears. What if in wild amazement and affright, Or, while we speak, within the direful grasp Of savage hunger, or of savage heat! To cast the fashion of uncertain evils
Page ix - And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That, in the various bustle of resort, Were all to-ruffled, and sometimes impaired.
Page 33 - bank, 890 Where grows the willow and the osier dank, My sliding chariot stays, Thick set with agate, and the azurn sheen Of turkis blue, and emerald green, Thus I set my printless feet O'er the cowslip's velvet head, That bends not as I tread. Gentle swain, at thy request
Page 77 - Some say that, ever against that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad.
Page 15 - Lady. Nay, gentle shepherd, ill is lost that praise That is addressed to unattending ears. Not any boast of skill, but extreme shift How to regain my severed company, Compelled me to awake the courteous Echo To give me answer from her mossy couch. Comns. What chance, good Lady, hath bereft you thus ? Lady. Dim
Page 20 - Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, 460 The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, 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, Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite