 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1861 - 752 pages
...wing, About the cedarcd alleys fling Nard and cassia's balmy smells: Iri^ there with humid bow We.ers or example, there was enly a single division. It was dienches with Elysian dew, (List, mortals, if your ears be true,) Beds of hyacinths and roses, Where... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...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 shew, And drenches with Elysian dew (List, mortals, if your ears be true), Beds of hyacinth and roses,... | |
 | John Milton - 1862 - 568 pages
...fling Nard and Cassia's balmy smells. Iris there with humid h""Waters the odorous nanKs, that blov Flowers of more mingled hue Than her purfled scarf...Beds of hyacinth and roses, Where young Adonis oft i-ppo?es. Waxing well of his ueep wound [n slumber soft, and on the ground Sadly sits th' Assyrian... | |
 | Double acrostics - 1862 - 208 pages
...locality in Yorkshire, and The creature immortalised by Wordsworth. 1. " Iris there, with humid bow, Waters the odorous banks that blow. Flowers of more mingled hue Than her purfled scarf can show." 2. " While in very scorn ye fling The amaranth upon the ground ; What care we for its fair tale Of... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1863 - 722 pages
...bow Waters the odorous banks, that blow Flowers of more mingled hue Than her purfled scarf can shew ; And drenches with Elysian dew (List, mortals, if your...Adonis oft reposes, Waxing well of his deep wound In slumber soft, and on the ground Sadly sits the Assyrian queen :; But far above in spangled sheen Celestial... | |
 | John Milton - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 412 pages
...Waters the odorous banks that blow Flowers of more mingled hew Then her purfl'd scarf can shew, 995 And drenches with Elysian dew (List mortals, if your...Adonis oft reposes, Waxing well of his deep wound 1000 988 There] Erratum Ed. i, T.MS.1, B.MS.: That there Edd. i, 2, 1637: that there T.MS.» In slumber... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...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 shew, And drenches with Elysian dew (List mortals, if your ears be true) Beds of hyacinth and roses,... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - Chivalry - 1913 - 972 pages
...equally in its production and its decay. Milton alludes to the story of Venus and Adonis in his "Comus" : "Beds of hyacinth and roses Where young Adonis oft reposes, Waxing well of his deep wound In slumber soft, and on the ground Sadly sits th' Assyrian queen;" etc. APOLLO AND HYACINTHUS Apollo was... | |
 | Joseph Ellis Duncan - Eden in literature - 1972 - 349 pages
...bow, Waters the odorous banks that blow Flowers of more mingled hew Than her purfl'd scarf can shew And drenches with Elysian dew (List mortals if your...Hyacinth, and Roses Where young Adonis oft reposes . . . (979-98) Fusing the traditional elements of the golden age sites, Milton created in Comus a Christian... | |
 | William Kerrigan - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 372 pages
...pair the blissful intercourse they enjoy in the Faerie Queene43 without dread of "that foe of his": (List mortals, if your ears be true) Beds of Hyacinth...Adonis oft reposes, Waxing well of his deep wound In slumber soft, and on the ground Sadly sits th' Assyrian Queen. (997-1002) In the sky above this garden,... | |
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And drenches with Elysian dew (List, mortals, if your ears be true), Beds of hyacinth and roses, Where young Adonis oft reposes, Waxing well of his deep wound... 
