...on evil da-s, On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues ; In darkness, and with dangers compassed round, And solitude ; yet not alone, while thou Visit'st...song, Urania, and fit audience find, though few." 8. Jolin. Milton (ch. viii. § 30, 51 — 55, 60, 62, 63, 65, 69; ch. ix. § 2 — 8, 25) at the Restoration...

...; In darkness, and with dangers compass'd round, And solitude ; yet not alone, while thou Visit' st my slumbers nightly, or when morn Purples the east : still govern thou my song, so Urania, and fit audience find, though few : But drive far off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus...

...folitude ; yet not alone, while thou Vifit'ft my (lumbers Nightly, or when Morn Purples the Eaft : ftill govern thou my Song, Urania, and fit audience find, though few. But drive farr off the barbarous diflonance Of Bacchus and his Revellers, the Race Of that wilde Rout that tore...

...tongues; In darkness, and with dangers compast round, And solitude; yet not alone, while thou Visit's! my slumbers nightly, or when morn Purples the East:...my song, Urania, and fit audience find, though few. And in the end he makes a tragic hero of the blind Samson. Milton wrote sonnets intermittently throughout...

...on evil dayes, On evil dayes though fall'n, and evil tongues; In darkness, and with dangers compast round, And solitude; yet not alone, while thou Visit'st...my slumbers Nightly, or when Morn Purples the East . . . (VII, 12-30) This passage occurs exactly in the middle of the poem, when "Half yet remaines unsung."...

...threatening audience and an anxious recollection of Orpheus, the endangered Milton of Book 7 lives in "solitude," yet not alone, while thou Visit'st my slumbers Nightly, or when Morn Purples the East. (7-28-30) It does not require an elaborate psychology to understand what dreaming could mean to a man...

...nature, his mind illumined by the rotating lights of the divinely ordained circle of creation: ... yet not alone, while thou Visit'st my slumbers Nightly, or when Morn Purples the East ... (VII, 28-30) Because the inspired narrator can apprehend the sacred order of creation, he can make...

...on evil dayes, On evil dayes though fall'n, and evil tongues; In darkness, and with dangers compast round, And solitude; yet not alone, while thou Visit'st...my Song, Urania, and fit audience find, though few. [7.23-31] Looking back now we can see that warnings of this tragic paradox have been given from time...

...degree to which the archetype of that drowned poet becomes linked with his sense of his own career: Still govern thou my song, Urania, and fit audience...far off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus and his revelers, the race Of that wild rout that tore the Thracian bard In Rhodope, where woods and rocks...

...cosmic creation, the narrator also has managed to make his own chaos the prelude to that other creation. But drive far off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus and his Revellers, the Race Of what wild Rout that tore the Thracian Bard In Rhodape, where Woods and Rocks had Ears To rapture, till...