...that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return, Alpheus, E 1 flow'reta of a thousand huea. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,...

...still more advanced season. The passage to which tho objection applies is tlio following: — " Yo Valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks. On whoso fresh lap the swart star sparely looks, Throw hither all your quaint cnamell'd eyes, That on...

...could distinguish between tho flowers of Spring and the flowers of Summer. The "Sicilian Muse" is to "call the vales, and bid them hither cast their bells, and flow'rets of a thousand hnes." There were not only to be cast the "quaint enamell'd eyes" of "venial flowers," but "every flower...

...close, The wonted roar was up amid the woods," &c. How exquisite is every image of this passage : " Return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells, and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,...

...two-handed engine at tho door 1'ii) Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return, Alphcus; the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams; return,...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. 133 Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton...

...Two years later he composed "The Seasons," full of beautiful musical episodes, and sweet visions of " Valleys low where the mild whispers use, Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks." There are few finer passages than that in which we have the calming and dying away of a thunder-storm....

...When first the white-thorn blows ; Such, Lycidas, thy loss to shepherd's ear. * * * * # * * * Eeturn, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades and wanton winds,...

...When first the white-thorn blows ; Such, Lycidas, thy loss to shepherd's ear. * * * * * * * * Eeturn, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades and wanton winds,...

...effect. Several of these causes are enumerated together in MILTON'S exquisite poem of " Lycidas "— Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks. And again in Paradise Regained (b. 2, v. 26)— Where winds with reeds and osiers whisp'ring play....

...papistical.' Few will be so hardy as to ascribe any tinge of papistry to Milton. Listen to him : — Return, Sicilian muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,...