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" 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... "
Comus: A Mask: Presented at Ludlow Castle 1634, Before the Earl of ... - Page 118
by John Milton, Thomas Warton - 1799 - 124 pages
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...shoulders drawn. Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step, and musing gait, And looks commercing lark to matins, and by and by gilds the fringes of...cloud, and peeps over the eastern hills, thrustin thce calm Peace, and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet, And hears the Muses in a ring,...
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Poetry for schools

Frederick Charles Cook - 1849 - 144 pages
...rapt soul sitting in thine eyes : Forget thyself to marble, till There, held in holy passion still, With a sad leaden downward cast Thou fix them on the...as fast: And join with thee calm Peace, and Quiet, And hears the Muses in a ring Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet, Aye round about Jove's altar...
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The hill Difficulty; or, The temptations ... of a Christian pilgrim

George Barrell Cheever - 1849 - 240 pages
...paraphrased this pleasant maxim in the Penseroso, adding another line on the pleasure of rural exercise — And join with thee calm Peace and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet : And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens takes his pleasure. Intemperance is by no means...
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The literary class book; or, Readings in English literature

Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...shoulders drawn. Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step, and musing gait, And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes:...with gods doth diet, And hears the Muses in a ring Aye round about Jove's altar sing : And add to these retir'd Leisure, That in trim gardens takes his...
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Beauties of the British Poets ...

George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...shoulders drawn. Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step und musing gait ; And look's commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes...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...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step, and musing gait, And looks commercing with the skie«, c8 Aye round about Jove's altar sing ; And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens takes his...
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Poetical Works

John Milton - 1850 - 704 pages
...even step, and musing gait; And looks commercing with the skies. Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes: Forget thyself to marble, till With a sad leaden downward...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...
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Milton's English Poetry: Being Entries from A Milton Encyclopedia

William Bridges Hunter (Jr.) - 1986 - 260 pages
..."keep thy wonted state, / With eev'n step, and musing gate." Images of discipline and detachment — "calm Peace, and Quiet, / Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet" — are decorous to Penserosos quest of the pleasures of contemplation, just as spontaneity of movement...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...shoulders drawn. Come, but keep thy wonted state. With even step and musing gait. And looks commercing (II, ii) 44 That we shall die, we know; (1. 31—42) 17 Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string. Drew iron tears...
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Miscellaneous Poems ; Paradise Regain'd ; & Samson Agonistes

John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...drawn. Com, but keep thy wonted slate, With eev'n slep, and musing fate, And looks commercing with we skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes: There held in holy passion slitt, Forget thy self to Marble, till With a sad Leaden downward casl, Thoufx them on the earth asfasl....
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