Comus: A Mask: Presented at Ludlow Castle 1634, Before the Earl of Bridgewater, Then President of WalesT. Bensley, 1799 - 124 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 40
... natural shape . Among the many feats of magic in this play , a bride newly married gains a marriage portion by dipping a pitcher into a well . As she dips , there is a voice : " Faire maiden , white and red , " Combe me smoothe , and ...
... natural shape . Among the many feats of magic in this play , a bride newly married gains a marriage portion by dipping a pitcher into a well . As she dips , there is a voice : " Faire maiden , white and red , " Combe me smoothe , and ...
الصفحة 43
... natural , that eyen so original a writer as Milton should have been biassed by the reign- ing poetry of the day , by the composition most in fashion , and by subjects recently brought for- ward , but soon giving way to others , and ...
... natural , that eyen so original a writer as Milton should have been biassed by the reign- ing poetry of the day , by the composition most in fashion , and by subjects recently brought for- ward , but soon giving way to others , and ...
الصفحة 92
... natural for a young author , preparing a piece for the stage , to propose to himself for a pattern the most celebrated master of English dramatic poetry . THYER . Milton has here more professedly imitated the manner of Shakspeare in his ...
... natural for a young author , preparing a piece for the stage , to propose to himself for a pattern the most celebrated master of English dramatic poetry . THYER . Milton has here more professedly imitated the manner of Shakspeare in his ...
الصفحة 93
... natural intervention is admitted , must indeed be given up to all the freaks of imagination ; but , so far as the action is merely human , it ought to be reasonable , which can hardly be said of the con- duct of the two brothers , who ...
... natural intervention is admitted , must indeed be given up to all the freaks of imagination ; but , so far as the action is merely human , it ought to be reasonable , which can hardly be said of the con- duct of the two brothers , who ...
الصفحة 100
... natural constitution of a regular play . There is a chastity in the application and conduct of the machinery ; and Sabrina is introduced with much address , after the Brothers had imprudently suf- fered the enchantment of Comus to take ...
... natural constitution of a regular play . There is a chastity in the application and conduct of the machinery ; and Sabrina is introduced with much address , after the Brothers had imprudently suf- fered the enchantment of Comus to take ...
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afterwards ancient arms beautiful Bishop Bishop of Worcester Brothers charm Chastity Circe comedy Comus court dance darkness daughter delight doth Dovaston's drama Duke Earl Edward enchanter English fair fear George Peele goddess golden hall haste hath heav'n Henry VII Hist Hodges's honour Jove king L'ALLEGRO lady Lord President Lord Rivers Ludlow Castle Ludlow Town magician Marches of Wales Mask Masque melancholy Meroe Milton moral night nobility nymph o'er Old Wiues Paradise Lost perhaps play pleasure poem poetical poetry poets pow'r praise President of Wales Prince Prince Potemkin queen reign rhyming Richard Roger de Montgomery SABRINA says scene shades Shakspeare Shakspeare's shepherd shew Sidney State Papers sing Sir Harry Sir Henry Sidney sister song soon soul Spir Spirit swain sweet tale taste thee thou three merrie Thyrsis towers verse virgin Virtue WARTON Welsh William wood youth
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الصفحة 117 - Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys! Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the sun-beams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus
الصفحة 118 - Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet, And hears the Muses in a ring Aye round about Jove's altar sing; And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens takes his pleasure; But, first and chiefest, with thee bring Him that yon...
الصفحة 122 - And, when the sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown, that Sylvan loves, Of pine, or monumental oak, Where the rude axe, with heaved stroke, Was never heard the nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallow'd haunt.
الصفحة 84 - Wherewith she sits on diamond rocks, Sleeking her soft alluring locks; By all the nymphs that nightly dance Upon thy streams with wily glance: Rise, rise, and heave thy rosy head From thy coral-paven bed, And bridle in thy headlong wave, Till thou our summons answered have.
الصفحة 88 - To the ocean now I fly, And those happy climes that lie Where day never shuts his eye, Up in the broad fields of the sky. There I suck the liquid air, 980 All amidst the gardens fair Of Hesperus, and his daughters three That sing about the golden tree.
الصفحة 121 - Canace to wife, That owned the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous horse of brass, On which the Tartar king did ride; And if aught else, great bards beside, In sage and solemn tunes have sung, Of tourneys and of trophies hung; Of forests, and enchantments drear, Where more is meant than meets the ear.
الصفحة 119 - And, missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way, And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fleecy cloud.
الصفحة 53 - 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...
الصفحة 67 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
الصفحة 121 - Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That own'd the virtuous ring and glass ; And of the wondrous horse of brass, On which the Tartar king did ride...