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... Keightley , to which the editor unfortunately did not have access , all quotations and citations are made at first hand . In the case of the exceptions , the editor has consulted such reliable sources , usually indicated in the Notes ...
... Keightley , to which the editor unfortunately did not have access , all quotations and citations are made at first hand . In the case of the exceptions , the editor has consulted such reliable sources , usually indicated in the Notes ...
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... ( Keightley ) , while the one that follows ( 17–24 ) is , perhaps , Milton's own invention . 1 16. Ivy - crowned Bacchus . See Class . Dict . ; cf. C. 54-55 . 1 17. Or whether , etc. rather frequent in Milton . Note the change in ...
... ( Keightley ) , while the one that follows ( 17–24 ) is , perhaps , Milton's own invention . 1 16. Ivy - crowned Bacchus . See Class . Dict . ; cf. C. 54-55 . 1 17. Or whether , etc. rather frequent in Milton . Note the change in ...
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... ( Rosa rubigenosa ) , Warton supposes that by ' the twisted eglantine ' Milton meant the honeysuckle ; Mr. Keightley , more accurately , suggests the dog - rose ( Rosa canina ) . " A Popularly , several of the smaller - flowered NOTES . 63.
... ( Rosa rubigenosa ) , Warton supposes that by ' the twisted eglantine ' Milton meant the honeysuckle ; Mr. Keightley , more accurately , suggests the dog - rose ( Rosa canina ) . " A Popularly , several of the smaller - flowered NOTES . 63.
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... ( Keightley ) , referring of course to the gorgeousness of the spectacle . 3 62. In thousand liveries dight . " Liveries seems to be plainly used of the clouds because they are regarded as servants or attendants of the sun , not because ...
... ( Keightley ) , referring of course to the gorgeousness of the spectacle . 3 62. In thousand liveries dight . " Liveries seems to be plainly used of the clouds because they are regarded as servants or attendants of the sun , not because ...
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... ( Keightley ) . In view of this last fact , tells his tale is also interpreted as " relates his story , " — tale being taken either in the general sense of " any story " or in the particular sense of " a love - tale . " " But ( 1 ) this ...
... ( Keightley ) . In view of this last fact , tells his tale is also interpreted as " relates his story , " — tale being taken either in the general sense of " any story " or in the particular sense of " a love - tale . " " But ( 1 ) this ...
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Page 27 - Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i...
Page 6 - With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Page xlix - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases.
Page 5 - Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whispering winds soon lulled asleep. Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold...
Page 52 - Ay me ! I fondly dream — Had ye been there — for what could that have done ? What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself, for her enchanting son, Whom universal nature did lament, When by the rout that made the hideous roar His gory visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore...
Page 12 - Or the unseen Genius of the wood. But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.
Page 12 - And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell 170 Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Page 9 - But first and chiefest, with thee bring Him that yon soars on golden wing Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne, The cherub Contemplation; And the mute Silence hist along, 55 'Less Philomel will deign a song In her sweetest saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of Night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke Gently o'er the accustomed oak. 60 Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy!
Page 3 - Oft listening how the hounds and horn Cheerly rouse the slumbering morn, From the side of some hoar hill, Through the high wood echoing shrill: Some time walking, not unseen, By hedge-row elms, on hillocks green, Right against the eastern gate, Where the great sun begins his state...
Page 37 - Fool, do not boast ; Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind 'With all thy charms, although this corporal rind Thou hast immanacled, while Heaven sees good.