 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, pure as her mind. Her face was...  Table-talk; or, Original essays - Page 29by William Hazlitt - 1824Full view - About this book
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Women - 1837 - 394 pages
...honoured her memory with what Johnson (out upon him !) calls a poor sonnet ; it is the one beginning Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis from the grave ; which, in its solemn and tender strain of feeling and modulated harmony, reminds us of Dante. He... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 496 pages
...tlas world's 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...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,... | |
 | James Wilson - Biography - 1838 - 372 pages
...— " I waked, she fled, and I replunged in night ;" would perhaps be sufficiently unexceptionable. Methought I saw my late espoused saint, Brought to me, like Alcestis, from the grave, far more agreeable than those deadly shades of which Solomon is speaking; but if, as it is written,... | |
 | William Johnson Fox - Death - 1838 - 72 pages
...Euripides — a name which Milton's sonnet has rendered so familiar and holy to modern readers — (" Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis, from the grave:") and who is represented in the drama as voluntarily parting with life — as dying by way of commutation,... | |
 | Scotland - 1838 - 894 pages
...channel " beautiful exceedingly," on their way down to the Great Glen of Night and Death ! " Methouglit I saw my late espoused saint, Brought to me, like Alcestis, from the grave ! " So said Milton — in a sonnet written for the whole world — but first of all, for his own soul.... | |
 | Scotland - 1838 - 938 pages
...1 Did it not glide in with the stillness of night, and, enacting life, draw Milton's curtain t . " Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis, from tho grave. Whom Jove's great eon to her glad husband gave, Rescu'd from death by force, though pale... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...vain mask, Content though blind, had I no other guide.' Todd. XXm. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. METHOD GHT 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... | |
 | Henry Alford - Greek poetry - 1841 - 272 pages
...readers, after our Chapter on the Alcestis, against Dr. Johnson's judgement: * ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. METHOUGHT I saw my late espoused saint Brought to...pale and faint. Mine, as whom wash'd from spot of childhood taint. Purification in the old law did save, And such, as yet once more I trust to have Full... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1841 - 346 pages
...Sleep's golden keys the dusky chambers of Persephone, and brings her back for a moment to light : — " Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to...Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint, j Mine, as whom washed from spot of child-bed taint Purification in the old law did save And such,... | |
| |
