 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
 | William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 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 - English language - 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... | |
 | James Hamilton - Christian literature, English - 1857 - 494 pages
...land and ocean without rest ; They also serve who only stand and wait." ©n fit's beeeaseti JFu'fe. Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to...wash'd from spot of child-bed taint Purification in th' old law did save, And such as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in heaven without... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 pages
...those delights can judge, and spare To interpose them oft, is not unwise. V. 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 - 1857 - 664 pages
...through the world's vaiu 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... | |
 | William Artman, Lansing V. Hall, L. V. Hall - Blind - 1857 - 404 pages
...and offers us the welcome opportunity of drawing upon our own experience, we gladly give it room : Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to...Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint. Mice as whom wash'd from spot of child-bed taint Purification in the old Law did save, And such, as... | |
 | William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1857 - 736 pages
...has left us this testimony, his twentysecond sonnet : — " Methought I saw my late espoused saiot Brought to me, like Alcestis from the grave, Whom...death by force, though pale and faint. Mine, as whom washeti from spot of childbed taint. Purification in the old law did save. And such as yet once more... | |
 | Villemain (M.) - French literature - 1857 - 490 pages
...époux, encore « toute pâle et languissante. La mienne, semblable à la * Me thought, I saw my laie espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis, from...grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Kesuued from death l;y force, tho' pale and faint. Mine, as whom wush'd from spot of child-bed taint... | |
 | James Hamilton - Christian literature, English - 1857 - 532 pages
...They also serve who only stand and wait." ©n fcis ttctagtt HEife. Methonght I saw my late esponsed saint Brought to me, like Alcestis, from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, I ;..-•••] i .. I from death by force, though pale and faint ; Mine, as whom wash'd from spot... | |
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