Comus: A Mask: Presented at Ludlow Castle 1634, Before the Earl of Bridgewater, Then President of WalesT. Bensley, 1799 - 124 Seiten |
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... Verses , printed at Petersburgh , in the year 1780 , and addressed to Prince Potemkin : Επιγραμμα επι της παμφαές και χαρμόσυνα ΓΟΡΓΕΙΟΦΟ ΡΙΑΣ , της κοινοτέρως ΜΑΣΚΑΡΑΔΟΣ καλυμένης , ην κ . τ . λ . Thus englished , A Poem , on the ...
... Verses , printed at Petersburgh , in the year 1780 , and addressed to Prince Potemkin : Επιγραμμα επι της παμφαές και χαρμόσυνα ΓΟΡΓΕΙΟΦΟ ΡΙΑΣ , της κοινοτέρως ΜΑΣΚΑΡΑΔΟΣ καλυμένης , ην κ . τ . λ . Thus englished , A Poem , on the ...
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... tell ye ; ' tis not vain or fabulous , ( Though so esteem'd by shallow ignorance ) What the sage poets , taught by th ' heavenly muse , Story'd of old in high immortal verse , Of dire chimeras and enchanted isles , And rifted rocks 1 . 68.
... tell ye ; ' tis not vain or fabulous , ( Though so esteem'd by shallow ignorance ) What the sage poets , taught by th ' heavenly muse , Story'd of old in high immortal verse , Of dire chimeras and enchanted isles , And rifted rocks 1 . 68.
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... verse . SONG . Sabrina fair , Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy , cool , translucent wave , In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber - dropping hair ; Listen for dear honour's sake , Goddess of the ...
... verse . SONG . Sabrina fair , Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy , cool , translucent wave , In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber - dropping hair ; Listen for dear honour's sake , Goddess of the ...
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... verse , which his maturer judgment approved , and from which he never endeavoured nor desired to deviate . Nor does Comus afford only a specimen of his language ; it exhibits likewise his power of de- scription and his vigour of ...
... verse , which his maturer judgment approved , and from which he never endeavoured nor desired to deviate . Nor does Comus afford only a specimen of his language ; it exhibits likewise his power of de- scription and his vigour of ...
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... I know , ancient or modern . The conduct of the piece is answerable to the beginning , and the versification of it is finely varied by short and long verses , blank and rhyming , and the sweetest songs that ever were 96.
... I know , ancient or modern . The conduct of the piece is answerable to the beginning , and the versification of it is finely varied by short and long verses , blank and rhyming , and the sweetest songs that ever were 96.
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 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
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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...