Comus: A MasqueG. Routledge, 1906 - 82 páginas |
Términos y frases comunes
12 Photogravures ambrosial Bacchus baits BOOK DUE Carol Circe command from sovran COMUS O foolishness COMVS A MASKE daffodils dance darkness daughter doth drouth ELDER BROTHER Thyrsis ESSIE MOKING fair false fear flocks GILBERT JAMES goblin or swart Goddess golden hallo Heaven Hecat herds hidden strength invoked in warbled ivy berries wreathed JOHN MILTON LADY Twill Locrine loved Ludlow marble venomed seat masque MOKING Comus mortal Nature's nectared Nereus new-entrusted Sceptre night nymph PHOTOGRAVURE AND COLOUR Photogravures after GILBERT Photogravures after WILLIAM precious vialed liquors purple grape Crushed reason's SABRINA SECOND BROTHER shades silver lining sister sits song soul sovran Jove SPIRIT stars Stoic stream Of pansies swain swift swink tell Tethys thee Thrice upon thy thy brewed enchantments truth and honesty Tuscan mariners transformed usage and soft vialed liquors heals virtue wand well-governed and wise Whoever tasted lost WID-LC PR WIDENER NOV wild wood winds
Pasajes populares
Página 28 - I saw them under a green mantling vine, That crawls along the side of yon small hill, Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots ; Their port was more than human, as they stood : I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i
Página 24 - What might this be? A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses.
Página 23 - In the blind mazes of this tangled wood ? My Brothers, when they saw me wearied out With this long way, resolving here to lodge Under the spreading favour of these pines...
Página 77 - To the ocean now I fly, And those happy climes that lie Where day never shuts his eye, Up in the broad fields of the sky. There I suck the liquid air, All amidst the gardens fair Of Hesperus, and his daughters three That sing about the golden tree.
Página 53 - His praise due paid ; for swinish Gluttony Ne'er looks to Heaven amidst his gorgeous feast, But with besotted base ingratitude Crams, and blasphemes his feeder.
Página 59 - Goddess of the silver lake, Listen and save! Listen, and appear to us, In name of great Oceanus, By the earth-shaking Neptune's mace, And Tethys' grave majestic pace; 870 By hoary Nereus' wrinkled look, And the Carpathian wizard's hook; By scaly Triton's winding shell, And old soothsaying Glaucus' spell; By Leucothea's lovely hands, And her son that rules the strands; By Thetis...
Página 8 - I will tell you now What never yet was heard in tale or song, From old or modern bard, in hall or bower. Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crushed the sweet poison of misused wine...
Página 25 - Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale, Where the love-lorn nightingale Nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well : Canst thou not tell me of a gentle pair That likest thy Narcissus are?
Página 23 - My best guide now : methought it was the sound Of riot and ill-managed merriment, Such as the jocund flute, or gamesome pipe, Stirs up among the loose unletter'd hinds, When, for their teeming flocks, and granges full, In wanton dance they praise the bounteous Pan, And thank the gods amiss.
Página 43 - At last a soft and solemn-breathing sound Rose like a steam of rich distilled perfumes, And stole upon the air, that even Silence Was took ere she was ware, and wished she might Deny her nature, and be never more, Still to be so displaced. I was all ear, 560 And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of Death.