...hour, refrains. . . . XIX, . -. . Methought I faw my late efpoufed Saint Brought to me like Alceflis from the grave, Whom Jove's great Son to her glad Husband gave, Refcu'd from death by force though pale and faint. Mine as whom walht from fpot of child- bed taint,...

...Milton in * ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alceftis, from the 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....

...DECEASED WIFE. Methought I saw my late espoused saint, Brought to me, like Alcestis, from the grave, Wiom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescued...faint: Mine, as whom, wash'd from spot of childbed taiut, Purification in the old law did save, And such, as yet once more I trust to have Full sight...

...part Where Ix>ve incurably hath fix'd his dart. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. METHOUGHT I saw my late-espoused Saint, Brought to me, like Alcestis, from the grave...; Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Bescued from death by force, though pale and faint. Mine, as whom wash'd from spot of child-bed taint,...

...sustained with Christian fortitude and patience, Mrs. Elizabeth Foster, granddaughter of Milton. * " Mine, as whom wash'd from spot of childbed taint, Purification, in the old law did save," &c. Son. xxiii. questionably wrong if she affirmed, as it is said, that her mother and her aunts had...

...and of their train am I. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. 'Vf ETHOUGHT I saw my late-espoused Saint, * Bronght to me, like Alcestis, from the grave; Whom Jove's...her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by force, thongh pale and faint. Mine, as whom wash'd from spot of child-bed taint, Purification in the' Old...

...caeci Ceraere censemus golem, lumenque diurnum. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. Methought I saw my late espoused saint, Brought to me, like Alcestis, from the grave,...Purification in the old law did save, And such as yet once moie I trust to have • Full sight of her in heaven without restraint; Came, vested all in white,...

...the pa. thetic poetry of Milton : in the opening of tliis sonnet ; Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis, from the grave,...son to her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by foree, tho" pale and faint : and in the latter part of it, Her face was veil'd, yet to my fancied sight...

...though blind, had I no better guide. XVIII. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. MJETHOUGHT I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis; from the 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...

...bliryl, had I no better guide. vOL. IV. T XVIII. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. METHOI'(;HT I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis, from the 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...