 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...  Dean Ireland Scholarship - Page xiiiby University of Oxford - 1833Full view - About this book
 | English literature - 1847 - 482 pages
...endeavoured to make him appear, he would never have written as he did, — ON BI8 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... | |
 | William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1847 - 524 pages
...character of this excellent woman, he has left us that beautiful testimony, his twenty-second sonnet : Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to...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... | |
 | 1847 - 488 pages
...endeavoured to make him appear, he would never have written as he did, — ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. " Methoaght 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1847 - 604 pages
...through the world's vam Content, though blind, had I no better guide. XXIII. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE.* METHOUGHT I saw my late espoused saint, Brought to...gave, Rescued from death by force, though pale and fairu Mine, as whom wash'd from spot of child-bed taint, Purification in the old law did save, And... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...solemn and touching sonnets : — Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alccstis from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad...whom wash'd from spot of child-bed taint Purification hi the old law did save, And such as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in heaven without... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Historic buildings - 1847 - 474 pages
...wife, who died in childbed, and to whose death we owe one of the most beautiful of his sonnets ; — Methought I saw my late espoused saint, Brought to me, like Alcestis, from the grave, &c. and here it was that the great poet became totally blind. Milton resided in Petty France, from... | |
 | George Frederick Graham, Henry Reed - English language - 1847 - 374 pages
...would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground. Tempest, i. 1. - like Alceitit, from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave. MILTOH. therefore as far From granting he, as I from begging peace. PL, IT. 104. When, from the soft... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - English language - 1849 - 380 pages
...this before The things, I have-forsworn to grant, may never Be held by you denials. Coriolamu, v. 3. - like Alcestis, from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave. MILTOH. therefore as far From granting he, as I from begging peace. PL, IT. 104 When, from the soft... | |
 | Charles Ollier - Dreams - 1848 - 270 pages
...307, Doctor Cheyne gives an instance even more remarkable than the present, of Death-in-Life. THE DIS My late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis, from the grave, Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint. MILTON. THE DISINTERMENT. ON a fine morning in... | |
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