...hour, refrains. . . . XIX, . -. . Methought I faw my late efpoufed Saint Brought to me like Alceflis from the grave, Whom Jove's great Son to her glad Husband gave, Refcu'd from death by force though pale and faint. Mine as whom walht from fpot of child- bed taint,...

...Populo Anglicano ;" which appeared in 1654. Morus was highly chagrined at a truth told by Milton in * ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alceftis, from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescu'd from death by force,...

...alone. " I waked—she fled: and I replunged in night," would perhaps be sufficiently unexceptionable. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. Methought I saw my late espoused...saint, Brought to me, like Alcestis, from the grave, Wiom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescued from Death by force, though pale and faint:...

...part Where Ix>ve incurably hath fix'd his dart. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. METHOUGHT I saw my late-espoused Saint, Brought to me, like Alcestis, from the grave...; Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Bescued from death by force, though pale and faint. Mine, as whom wash'd from spot of child-bed taint,...

...sustained with Christian fortitude and patience, Mrs. Elizabeth Foster, granddaughter of Milton. * " Mine, as whom wash'd from spot of childbed taint, Purification, in the old law did save," &c. Son. xxiii. questionably wrong if she affirmed, as it is said, that her mother and her aunts had...

...and of their train am I. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. 'Vf ETHOUGHT I saw my late-espoused Saint, * Bronght to me, like Alcestis, from the grave; Whom Jove's...her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by force, thongh pale and faint. Mine, as whom wash'd from spot of child-bed taint, Purification in the' Old...

...with the tenderness that reigns in the pa. thetic poetry of Milton : in the opening of tliis sonnet ; Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to...son to her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by foree, tho" pale and faint : and in the latter part of it, Her face was veil'd, yet to my fancied sight...

...world's vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide. XVIII. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. MJETHOUGHT I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis;...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...

...mask Content though bliryl, had I no better guide. vOL. IV. T XVIII. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. METHOI'(;HT I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis,...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...

...thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide;. xxur. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. METHOUGHT I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Aleestis, from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, llescued from death by force,...