The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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Page 64
... these lines : We drove a field , and both together heard What time the grey fly winds her sultry horn , Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night . We know that they never drove a field , and 64 THE LIFE OF MILTON .
... these lines : We drove a field , and both together heard What time the grey fly winds her sultry horn , Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night . We know that they never drove a field , and 64 THE LIFE OF MILTON .
Page 66
... night with the fanciful narratives of superstitious ig- norance . The pensive man , at one time , walks unseen to muse at midnight ; and at another hears the sullen curfew . If the weather drives him home , he sits in a room lighted ...
... night with the fanciful narratives of superstitious ig- norance . The pensive man , at one time , walks unseen to muse at midnight ; and at another hears the sullen curfew . If the weather drives him home , he sits in a room lighted ...
Page 85
... night . Milton , when he has expatiated in the sky , may be allowed sometimes to revisit earth ; for what other author ever soared so high , or sustained his flight so long ? Milton , being well versed in the Italian poets , ap- pears ...
... night . Milton , when he has expatiated in the sky , may be allowed sometimes to revisit earth ; for what other author ever soared so high , or sustained his flight so long ? Milton , being well versed in the Italian poets , ap- pears ...
Page 96
... night , distinguish'd by your smiles , shall tell , That never Britain can in vain excel ; The slighted arts futurity shall trust , And rising ages hasten to be just . At length our mighty Bard's victorious lays Fill the loud voice of ...
... night , distinguish'd by your smiles , shall tell , That never Britain can in vain excel ; The slighted arts futurity shall trust , And rising ages hasten to be just . At length our mighty Bard's victorious lays Fill the loud voice of ...
Page 97
... night . FROM COLLINS'S ODE ON THE POETICAL CHARACTER . HIGH on some cliff , to Heaven up - piled , Of rude access , of prospect wild , Where , tangled round the jealous steep , Strange shades o'erbrow the vallies deep , And holy Genii ...
... night . FROM COLLINS'S ODE ON THE POETICAL CHARACTER . HIGH on some cliff , to Heaven up - piled , Of rude access , of prospect wild , Where , tangled round the jealous steep , Strange shades o'erbrow the vallies deep , And holy Genii ...
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Page 100 - This neglect of rime is so little to be taken for a defect, though it may seem so perhaps to vulgar readers, that it is rather to be esteemed an example, the first in English, of ancient liberty recovered to heroic poem from the troublesome and modern bondage of riming.