 | David Daiches - 1979 - 304 pages
...become separated from her brothers and is lost in the wood. Comus falls into a more formal speechBreak off, break off, I feel the different pace Of some chaste footing near about this ground— and lays his plans. The Lady enters, and in flexible verse with conversational overtones explains her... | |
 | Elaine Jordan - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 212 pages
...march but still in triumph over time. The image of the drunken dance echoes Milton's Comus, 143-4: Come, knit hands, and beat the ground In a light fantastic round. The 'raven gloss' of darkness had already recalled this third predecessor: At every fall smoothing the... | |
 | Anthony W. Shipps - Reference - 1990 - 216 pages
...is best to start over with the expanded quotation: Break off, break off; I feel the different sound Of some chaste footing near about this ground: Run...within these brakes and trees; Our number may affright. The expanded quotation, incidentally, is not worded correctly, but no matter. We may indeed find the... | |
 | John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...telltale Sun discry Our conceal 'd Solemnity. Com, knit bands, and beat the ground, In a light fantaslick round. The Measure. Break off, break off, I feel the different pace, Ofsom chasl footing neer about this ground. Run to your shrouds, within these Brakes and Trees, Our... | |
 | William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...of this word-magic, Comus invites his followers to begin the first anti-masque, a grotesque dance: Come, knit hands, and beat the ground In a light fantastic round. (I43~4) Eventually their wild and wanton 'measure' is interrupted by Comus, who, hearing some 'chaste... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...axle doth allay In the steep Atlantic stream. 7474 Comus What hath night to do with sleep? 7475 Comus t? And whence be the grapes of the wine-press which ye tread? 6802 7476 Comus Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night? 7453 7477... | |
 | Otto Dresel - Music - 2002 - 328 pages
..."The Measure," a dance in the first scene of the masque for Camus and his "crew" of enchanted beings ("Come, knit hands, and beat the ground in a light fantastic round"). 20. This is the narrative poem parodied in Gilbert and Sullivan's Princess Ida. 21. Yet another setting,... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...concealed solemnity.0 Come, knit hands, and beat the ground, In a light fantastic round.0 The Measure0 Break off, break off, I feel the different pace Of...ground. Run to your shrouds, within these brakes and trees;0 Our number may affright: some virgin sure (For so ! can distinguish by mine art) Benighted... | |
 | Sheila O'Connell - Arts, English - 2003 - 300 pages
...hath night to do with sleep? / Night hath better sweets to prove, / Venus now wakes, and wakens Love / Come, knit hands, and beat the ground / In a light fantastic round' (Camus: A Maskc I'resc-nlcd at l.udlmr Castle, 1637). The Temple was decorated inside 'with a whimsical... | |
 | Sophie Tomlinson - Drama - 2005 - 324 pages
...strength as a potential assailant is imaged in his preternatural sensitivity to the Lady's approach: 'Break off, break off, I feel the different pace, / Of some chaste footing near about this ground' (145—6). In his working copy of the masque, Milton originally had Comus 'hear the different pace'... | |
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Of some chaste footing near about this ground. Run to your shrouds within these brakes and trees ; Our number may affright. Some virgin sure (For so I can distinguish by... 
