 We, that are of purer fire, Imitate the starry quire ; Who, in their nightly watchful spheres, Lead in swift round the months and years. The sounds and seas, with all their finny drove, Now to the moon in wavering morrice move ; And, on the tawny sands...  Comus: A Mask - Page 10by John Milton - 1858 - 90 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1874 - 136 pages
...Tipsy dance and jollity. Braid your locks with rosy twine, 105 Dropping odours, 'dropping wine. Rigour now is gone to bed, And advice with scrupulous head,...sour severity, With their grave saws, in slumber lie. 1 10 We that are of purer fire Imitate the starry choir, Who, in their nightly watchful spheres, Lead... | |
 | John Milton, Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1874 - 608 pages
...approached him, mho with hand Silence, and with these words attention, won."—PL, X. 456—459. " Imitate the starry quire, Who, in their nightly watchful spheres, Lead in swift round the months and years."—Com. ill—113. " Hail, divinest Melancholy, To hit the sense of human sight."—// Pens.... | |
 | John Milton - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 412 pages
...Advice with scrupulous head, Strict Age, and sowre Severity, With their grave Saws in slumber ly. 11o We that are of purer fire Imitate the Starry Quire, Who in their nightly watchfull Sphears, Lead in swift round the Months and Years. The Sounds, and Seas with all their finny... | |
 | William Bridges Hunter - Literary Criticism - 1979 - 216 pages
...sphere-music, significantly, is seen as the dance of the heavenly bodies, to which earthly rhythms respond : We that are of purer fire Imitate the Starry Quire Who in their nightly watchful Sphears, Lead in swift round the Months and Years; The Sounds, and Seas with all their finny drove... | |
 | William Kerrigan - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 372 pages
...Ludlow Castle from so many sources? Dancing in the night, the tempter clarifies his opposition: Rigor now is gone to bed, And Advice with scrupulous head,...sour Severity, With their grave Saws in slumber lie. (108-110) Rigor, Advice, Age, and Severity are personifications of parental authority, ways in which... | |
 | Roger Copeland, Marshall Cohen - Music - 1983 - 606 pages
...Comus himself to make the impudent claim that he and his crew are duplicating the dance of the planets: We that are of purer fire Imitate the Starry Quire Who in their nightly watchfull Sphears, Lead in swift round the Months and Years. The Sounds, and Seas with all their finny... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...Advice with scrupulous head, Strict Age, and sour Severity, With their grave saws, in slumber lie. 110 We, that are of purer fire, Imitate the starry quire, Who, in their nighdy watchful spheres, Lead in swift round the months and years. The sounds and seas, with all their... | |
 | Gary Eberle - Religion - 1994 - 180 pages
...Milton, in his Comus (1637), as a Morris dance, an English country dance of exuberance and fertility: We that are of purer fire Imitate the starry Quire Who in their nightly watchful Sphears Lead in swift round the Months and Years — The Sounds, and Seas with all their finny drove... | |
 | William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...revelry, Tipsy dance and jollity. Braid your locks with rosy twine Dropping odours, dropping wine. Rigour now is gone to bed, And Advice with scrupulous head,...lie. We that are of purer fire Imitate the starry choir, Who in their nightly watchful spheres Lead in swift round the months and years. (102-14) After... | |
 | James Gill - Carnival - 1997 - 316 pages
...And advice with scrupulous head. Strict Age, and sowre Severity, With their grave Saws in Slumber ly. We that are of purer fire Imitate the Starry Quire, Who in their nightly watchfull Sphears, Lead in swift round the Months and Years. Comus delivers this speech to "a rout... | |
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