 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...world's vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide. XXIII. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. METHOUGHT I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis,...her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by force, tho' pale and faint. Mine, as whom wash'd from spot of child-bed Purification in the old Law did save,... | |
 | Joseph Ivimey - Poets, English - 1833 - 314 pages
...melancholy event, were vented in the following most touching Sonnet : — ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. u Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alcestis,...Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint : * Summons's Life of MILTON, note, p. 456. Mine, a« whom washed from spot of child-bed taint Purification... | |
 | Joseph Ivimey - Poets, English - 1833 - 430 pages
...to her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint: Mine, as whom washed from spot of child-bed taint, Purification in the...have Full sight of her in heaven without restraint, * Simmons's Life of MILTON, note, p. 456. Came vested all in white, pure as her mind! Her face was... | |
 | English poetry - 1833 - 240 pages
...mask Content though blind, had I no better guide. 125 JOHN MILTON. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. METHOUGHT I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis,...grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescu'd from Death by force, though pale and faint. Mine, as whom wash'd from spot of child-bed taint... | |
 | Joseph Ivimey - Poets, English - 1833 - 320 pages
...melancholy event, were vented in the following most touching Sonnet : — OK HIS DECEASED WIFE. " Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alcestis,...grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Re scued from death by force, though pale and faint : * Simmons's Life of MILTON, note, p. 456. Mine,... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...world's vain mask, Content though blind, had I no better guide, XVIII, On his deceased Wife. METHOUGHT I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis,...yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in heav'n without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind: Her face was veil'd; yet to my... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 498 pages
...Alcestis, from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by force, tho' pale and faint. Mine, as whom wash'd from spot of...yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heav'n without restraint, Came, vested all in white, pure as her mind : Her face was veil'd, yet to... | |
 | Theodore Dwight Woolsey - Greek poetry - 1837 - 288 pages
...this play of his favorite author in the opening lines of the sonnet on his deceased wife : " Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alcestis...grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Ransomed from death by force, though pale and faint." The young student, however, is not to suppose... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 496 pages
...vain mask, Content though blind, had I no otter guide.' Todd. XXHI. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. METHOUGHT I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis,...her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by force, tho' pale and faint. Mine, as whom wash'd from spot of child-bed taint Purification in the old Law... | |
 | 1838 - 876 pages
...Did n not glide in with the stillness of night, and, enacting We, draw Miltcn'a curtain'; " Melhonght I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis,...grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Uescu'd irom death by force, though pale and faint. Mice, as whom, wash'd from spot of cnildbed taint,... | |
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Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint. Mine, as whom washed from spot of child-bed taint Purification in the old law did save, And such, as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white,... 
