...see their outlines on the screen'. 3, 5 stage . . . later age: compare Milton, // Penseroso 99—101: Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of...what (though rare) of later age, Ennobled hath the buskined stage. Also perhaps compare Wordsworth, who rhymes 'stage' / 'Age', in Ode: Intimations of...

...The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook; And of those daemons that are found In fire, air, flood, or under ground, Whose...hath a true consent With planet, or with element. These lines (which to my mind have a Brunian ring through the mention of the Bear, where the reform...

...what vast regions Hold The Immortal mind, that hath forsook Her Mansion in this fleshly nook. Chorus Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In scepter'd Pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops line, And the Tale of Troy divine. Song Frances: But Ol Sad Virgin, that thy Power Might raise Musaeus from...

...those Damons that are found In fire, air, flood, or underground, Whose power hath a true consent 95 With Planet, or with Element. Sometime let Gorgeous...Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine, 100 Or what (though rare) of later age, Ennobled hath the Buskin'd stage. But, O sad Virgin, that thy...

...Orpheus suggests magic, and magic suggests the control of elemental spirits: those Daemons that are found In fire, air, flood, or under ground, Whose...hath a true consent With Planet, or with Element. [Il Penseroso] Whatever one thinks of magic, a soul as pure as the Lady in Comus might be able to commune...

...Pelops' line: W is quoting Milton's IlPenseroso (97-100): 'Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy | In sceptered pall come sweeping by, | Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, | Or the tale of Troy divine'. 'Thebes' refers to those tragedies concerning Oedipus and his family; Pelops was the ancestor of Atreus...

...reading of tragedies: "Som time let Gorgeous Tragedy In Scepter'd Pall com sweeping by, Presenting Thebs, or Pelops line, Or the tale of Troy divine. Or what...rare) of later age, Ennobled hath the Buskind stage" (The Works of John Milton p. 43, lines 97—102). 43 Stevens, "Subversion and Wonder" 384. 44 Ibid....

...element. Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops 1 line, Or the tale of Troy divine, Or what (though rare) of later age Ennobled hath the buskined stage. But, 0 sad Virgin! that thy power Might raise Musaeus from his bower; Or bid the soul...

...immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook; And of those demons that are found Whose power hath a true consent With planet or with element. Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops 1 line, Or the tale of Troy divine, Or...

...both Platonic and hermetic philosophy, with the sympathetic correspondences of "those daemons that are found / In fire, air, flood, or under ground, / Whose...hath a true consent / With planet, or with element." But in old age it is visible nature that the contemplative man contemplates, seeking a hermitage Where...