 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 mind. Her face was...  The New Monthly Magazine - Page 2381822Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...through the world's vain Content, though blind, had I no better guide. XXIII ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. METHOUGHT I saw my late espoused saint Brought to...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 564 pages
...world's vain mask, Content though blind, had I no better guide. XVIII. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. METHOUOHT I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis,...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... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1855 - 508 pages
...Sonnet "on his deceased wife." " Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alccstis from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad...Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint." JR Lowell has chosen the " Shepherd of King Admetus " for the subject of a short poem. He makes that... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 pages
...through the world's vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide. XXIII. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. METHOUGHT I saw my late espoused saint" Brought to me, like Alcestis from the grave,1 Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by force, though pale and... | |
 | 1855 - 834 pages
...METHOCGIIT I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Älcestis from the grave, Whom Jove's greatson to her glad husband gave Rescued from death by force, though pale an J taint. Mine, as whom wash'd from spot of child-bed taint, Purification in the old Law did save,... | |
 | William Ross Wallace - 1856 - 192 pages
...those are slumbering, side by side, "Who, like thyself, have suffered, toiled and died. DAILY NEWS. METHOUGHT I saw my late espoused Saint Brought to...Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint. ***** Her face was veiled, yet to my fancied sight, Love, sweetness, goodness in her person shin'd... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1856 - 512 pages
...restored to her husband. Milton alludes to the story of Alcestis in his Sonnet " on his deceased wife." " Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to...great son to her glad husband gave, Rescued from death hy force, though pale and faint." JR Lowell has chosen the " Shepherd of King Admetus " for the subject... | |
 | William Howitt - 1856 - 596 pages
...testimony, his twenty-second sonnet : " Methonght I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alccstis from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad...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 yet once more... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1856 - 384 pages
...nature's germins tumble all together, Even till destruction sicken, answer me To what I ask you. 366. Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to...grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescu'd from death by force, though pale and faint. Mine (as whom wash'd from spot of child-bed taint... | |
 | George Frederick Graham, Henry Reed - 1856 - 372 pages
...giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant. Meos.for Meos.j ii. 2. like Aleestis, from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by force MILTON. ' Somuts she has a hidden strength Which you remember not. Sec. Rro. What hidden strength Unless... | |
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