 | Edward Le Comte - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 168 pages
...espoused saint"-that second marriage," at least, was made in heaven — has theologically justified hope: "And such as yet once more I trust to have / Full sight of her in heaven without restraint" (Son. XIX. 7-8). Yet once more, Milton in Elegia VII "makes evident," as B. Rajan has phrased it, "the... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...LiTB; NOBE; NoP; OAEL-I; OBEV; OBS; PoEL-3; PPP; Prim; TrGrPo; UnPo; WeW; WGRP On His Deceased Wife 34 Ȕ .h .`g . veiled; yet to my fancied sight Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined So clear as in no face... | |
 | American poetry - 1993 - 412 pages
...Rescu'd from death by force though pale and faint, Mine as whom washt from spot of child-bed taint, Purification in the old Law did save, And such, as...vested all in white, pure as her mind: Her face was vail'd, yet to my fancied sight, Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shin'd So clear, as in no... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...though pale and faint. Mine, as whom washed from spot of childbed taint Purification in the Old Law193 did save, And such as yet once more I trust to have...vested all in white, pure as her mind. Her face was veiled; yet to my fancied sight 10 Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined So clear as in no... | |
 | James Russell Kincaid - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 288 pages
...Rescu'd from death by force though pale and faint. Mine as whom washt from spot of child-bed taint, Purification in the old Law did save, And such, as...fancied sight, Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shin'd So clear, as in no face with more delight. But O, as to embrace me so inclin'd, 1 wak'd, she... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...Rescu'd from death by force though pale and faint. Mine as whom washt from spot of child-bed taint. Purification in the old Law did save. And such, as...fancied sight, Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person. shin'd So clear, as in no face with more delight. But O, as to embrace me she inclin'd, I wak'd, she... | |
 | Masson - Poetry - 1995 - 228 pages
...Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint. Mine, as whom washed from spot of childbed taint Purification in the old Law did save, And such as...vested all in white, pure as her mind. Her face was veiled, yet to my fancied sight Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined So clear as in no face... | |
 | William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...to be purified as explained in Leviticus ? The poem continues with somewhat ambiguous description : And such as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint . . . Blindness is, presumably, the 'restraint' which the poet hopes will be removed in heaven, where... | |
 | John Hollander - Education - 1997 - 342 pages
...Rescued from death by force though pale and faint. Mine as whom washed from spot of childbed taint, Purification in the old Law did save, And such, as...vested all in white, pure as her mind: Her face was veiled, yet to my fancied sight Love, sweetness, goodness in her person shined So clear, as in no face... | |
 | Jane M. Ussher - Psychology - 1997 - 432 pages
...already typified this idealization of 'woman' in his homage to his 'saintly' wife, who had died. She Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. Her face was veiled, yet to my fancied sight, Love sweetness goodness in her person shined So clear, as no face... | |
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Death by force, though pale and faint. Mine, as whom washed from spot of child-bed taint Purification in the Old Law did save, And such as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her... 
