 | Thomas Bulfinch - Chivalry - 1913 - 972 pages
...a forest side, Or fountain, some belated peasant sees (Or dreams he sees), while overhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her...ear. At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds." THE GRIFFIN, OR GRYPHON The Griffin is a monster with the body of a lion, the head and wings of an... | |
 | John Broadbent - Literary Criticism - 1972 - 198 pages
...by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her...ear; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds. I 781 In the 1 7th century it was not ridiculous for an educated person to half-believe in fairies... | |
 | James Burnett - 498 pages
...For, as a fimile is a Wheels her pale courfe ; they on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund mufic charm his ear ; At once, with joy and fear, his heart rebounds. Book iv 777. He has another beautiful fimile of the fame kind in the 4th book of Paradife Loft, beginning... | |
 | 1860 - 48 pages
...by a forest side Or fountain, some belated peasant sees Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her...ear: At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds." Were not they gone yet ? Why, if they were, should Milton bring so ignorant a peasant into an epic... | |
 | 442 pages
...arbitress, and neerer to the earth Wheels her pale course, they, on thir mirth and dance Intent, with jocond music charm his ear ; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds." l The impression they made upon his imagination in early life appears from his " Vacation exercise,"... | |
 | John Kevin Newman - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 576 pages
...Arbitress, and neerer to the Earth Wheels her pale course, they on thir mirth and dance Intent, with jocond Music charm his ear; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds. This "belated peasant," in this passage reminiscent of Apollonius (IV. 1479) and Virgil (Aeneid VI.... | |
 | Stephen Greenblatt - America - 1991 - 230 pages
...by a forest-side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her...ear; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds. (Paradise Lost 1.m-88)30 The transformation of the rebel angels is at once unbelievable and true —... | |
 | Stephen Greenblatt - History - 2008 - 225 pages
...Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbi tress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course, they...ear; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds. (Paradise Lost i.jj-j-88)30 The transformation of the rebel angels is at once unbelievable and true... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - Fiction - 1993 - 390 pages
...uses the Pygmies for a simile in Paradise Lost, Book i : (Or dreams he sees), while overhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her...ear. At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds. THE GRIFFIN, OR GRYPHON The Griffin is a monster with the body of a lion, the head and wings of an... | |
 | Grover Smith - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 198 pages
...midnight revels, by a forest-side Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees . . . . . . they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund...charm his ear; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds.24 This last group of passages illustrates ambiguous permutations of "source" materials. A... | |
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Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course ; they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his... 
