Comus: A Mask: Presented at Ludlow Castle 1634, Before the Earl of Bridgewater, Then President of WalesT. Bensley, 1799 - 124 pages |
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... written many years before , it is said , 66 Many of the royal apartments are yet entire ; " and the sword , with the velvet hangings , and 66 some of the furniture , are still preserved . " And Grose in his Antiquities , published about ...
... written many years before , it is said , 66 Many of the royal apartments are yet entire ; " and the sword , with the velvet hangings , and 66 some of the furniture , are still preserved . " And Grose in his Antiquities , published about ...
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... written 1660 , on the Inconve- niencies and Dangers of re - admitting Kingship , and with a view to counteract the noxious Hu- mour of returning to Bondage , he says , a king " must be adored as a demi - god , with a dissolute " and ...
... written 1660 , on the Inconve- niencies and Dangers of re - admitting Kingship , and with a view to counteract the noxious Hu- mour of returning to Bondage , he says , a king " must be adored as a demi - god , with a dissolute " and ...
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... written by that ac- complished gentleman , Sir Philip Sidney . Perhaps I may be excused , if I lengthen the note by giving an extract or two from this Mask , which may remind the reader of a pleasant character on the modern stage , the ...
... written by that ac- complished gentleman , Sir Philip Sidney . Perhaps I may be excused , if I lengthen the note by giving an extract or two from this Mask , which may remind the reader of a pleasant character on the modern stage , the ...
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... written by Allan Ram- say . An ingenious unknown friend in England , compli- mented the Scottish bard , on " his revival of a good old " form of poetry , in high repute with us . " See the intro- duction prefixed to the Mask . The same ...
... written by Allan Ram- say . An ingenious unknown friend in England , compli- mented the Scottish bard , on " his revival of a good old " form of poetry , in high repute with us . " See the intro- duction prefixed to the Mask . The same ...
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... Written by " G. P. [ i . e . George Peele . ] Printed at Lon- 66 vive this kind of poesy , gives the joint opinion of Addison and himself respecting Comus : " the best Mask ever writ- " ten was that of Milton , in the praise of which no ...
... Written by " G. P. [ i . e . George Peele . ] Printed at Lon- 66 vive this kind of poesy , gives the joint opinion of Addison and himself respecting Comus : " the best Mask ever writ- " ten was that of Milton , in the praise of which no ...
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Page 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
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...