What! have you let the false enchanter scape? O ye mistook; ye should have snatched his wand, And bound him fast. Without his rod reversed, And backward mutters of dissevering power, We cannot free the Lady that sits here In stony fetters fixed and motionless. Comus: A Mask - Page 64by John Milton - 1858 - 90 pagesFull view - About this book
| Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 868 pages
...ch. vi. O ye mistook, ye should have suatcht his wand, And bound him fast ; without his rod reserved, And backward mutters of dissevering power, We cannot free the lady that sits here. Milton. Comus, 1.817. The dissevering of fleets hath been the overthrow of many actions. Ralegh. (1)... | |
| John Milton - 1847 - 604 pages
...free the lady, that sits here, In stony fetters fix'd, and motionless : Yet stay, be not disturb'd : now I bethink me, Some other means I have, which may be us'd, Which once of Meliboeus old I learn 'd, The soothest shepherd that e'er piped on plains. There... | |
| John Frederick Denison Maurice - 1849 - 336 pages
...enchanter 'scape:' ' Oh! ye mistook: ye should have snatched his wand, And held him fast; without hie rod reversed And backward mutters of dissevering power, We cannot free the Lady who sits here In stony fetters, fixed and motionless.' We cannot banish the evils of the Confessional... | |
| John Milton - 1850 - 704 pages
...cannot free the lady that sits here In stony fetters fix'd, and motionless : Yet stay; be not disturb'd; now I bethink me, Some other means I have which may be used, Which once of Melibceus old I learn'd, The smoothest shepherd that e'er piped on plains. There ia a gentle nymph not far from hence,... | |
| 1851 - 408 pages
..." What ! have you let'the false enchanter 'scape ? 0, ye mistook, ye should have snatched his wand And bound him fast ; without his rod reversed, And...bethink me, Some other means I have which may be used. There is a gentle nymph not far from hence, That, with moist curb, sways the smooth Severn stream ;... | |
| Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 pages
...sup- counter-charm by reversing her I 1 \ And backward mutters of dissevering power, V^e_cannot^free the lady that sits here In stony fetters fixed and...motionless : Yet stay, be not disturbed ; now I bethink me, 820 Some other means I have which may be used, Which once of Meiiboeus old I learnt, The soothest shepherd... | |
| English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...'scape f O ye mistook, ye should have snatch'd his wand, And bound him fast; without his rod revers'd, 7 8 flx'd, and motionless: 8I9 Yet stay, be not disturb'd ; now I bethink me, Some other means I have which... | |
| John Milton - 1852 - 424 pages
...Spirit comes in. Spir. What, have you let the false enchanter 'scape ? Yet stay, be not drsturb'd ; now I bethink me, Some other means I have, which may be used, Which once of Meliboeus old I learnt, The soothest shepherd that e'er piped on plains. There is a gentle nymph, not... | |
| John Milton - 1852 - 350 pages
...the Lady that sits here In stony fetters fix'd, and, motionless : 8i9 Yet stay, be not disturb'd : now I bethink me, Some other means I have which may be us'd, Which once of Meliboeus old I learnt, The soothest shepherd that e'er pip'd on plains. There... | |
| John Milton, George Gilfillan - 1853 - 376 pages
...'scape 1 0 ye mistook, ye should have snatch'd his wand, And bound him fast ; without his rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power, We cannot free the Lady that sits here In stony fetters fix'd, and motionless : Yet stay, be not disturb'd ; now I bethink me, Some other means I have which... | |
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