Virtue could see to do what Virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. Comus: A Mask - الصفحة 29بواسطة John Milton, John Dalton - 1791 - عدد الصفحات: 66عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| British drama - 1811 - عدد الصفحات: 624
...virtue's book, And the sweet peace that goodness bosoms ever, As that the single want of fight and noise (Not being in danger, as I trust she is not) Could...to do what Virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk ; and Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude,... | |
| 1811 - عدد الصفحات: 620
...virtue's book, And the sweet peace that goodness bosoms ever, As that the single want of light and noise (Not being in danger, as I trust she is not) Could...And put them into misbecoming plight. Virtue could sec to do what Virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk... | |
| Richard Hurd - 1811 - عدد الصفحات: 380
..., " Milton catched at this image, and has run it into a sort of paraphrase, in those fine lines, -" Virtue could see to do what virtue would " By her own radiant light, tho' Sun and Mooq ** Were in the flat sea sunk— COMUS, In Spenser's fine" we have the idea of Virtue dropt ,down... | |
| Robert Deverell - 1813 - عدد الصفحات: 634
...bosoms ever, As that the single want of light and noise (Not being in danger, as I trust she is not) 370 Could stir the constant mood of her calm thoughts,...to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Having now explained that the ague and fever is the subject of this mask pr drama,... | |
| Robert Deverell - 1813 - عدد الصفحات: 622
...bosoms ever, As that the single want of light and noise (Not being in danger, as I trust she is not) 370 Could stir the constant mood of her calm thoughts,...to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon .) Having now explained that the ague and fever is the subject of this mask or... | |
| Robert Deverell - 1813 - عدد الصفحات: 354
...bosoms. ever, As that the single want of light and noise (Not being in danger, as I trust she is not) 37Q Could stir the constant mood of her calm thoughts,...to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon (374-.) Having now explained that the ague and fever is the subject of this mask... | |
| John Milton - 1813 - عدد الصفحات: 270
...(Not being in danger, as I trust sh. is not) 37p Could stir the constant mood of her calm thought*, And put them into misbecoming plight. Virtue could...to do what Virtue would By her own radiant light, though Sun and Moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self 375 Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude;... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1813 - عدد الصفحات: 480
...quarto has been followed. MALONE. Milton, in his Comus, might here have been indebted to Shakspeare: " Virtue could see to do what virtue would, " By her own radiant light, though sun and moon " Were in the flat sea sunk." STEEVENS. * Come, civil night,'] Civil is grave,... | |
| Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 414
...virtue's book, And the sweet peace, that goodness bosoms ever, As that the single want of light and noise (Not being in danger, as I trust she is not) Could stir the constant tnood of her calm thoughts, And put them into misbecoming plight. Virtue could see to do what Virtue... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 490
...To-morrow to fresh woods and pastures new. § 4. Virtue, II :>Jom, and ContenpJatif*. , • MlLTOV. VIRTUE could see to do what Virtue would By her own radiant light, though son and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's rlf Oft Seeks to sweet retired solitude,... | |
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