The conscience, friend, to have lost them overplied In Liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which all Europe rings from side to side. This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content, though blind, had I no better guide. The Poetical Works of John Milton - Էջ 215John Milton - 1852Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
| William Hazlitt - 1845 - 432 էջ
...Friend, to have lost them overply'd In liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which all Europe talks from side to side. This thought might lead me through...mask, Content though blind, had I no better guide." Nothing can exceed the mild, subdued tone of this Sonnet, nor the striking grandeur of the concluding... | |
| Anna Maria Hall - 430 էջ
...thou ask! The conscicnce, Friend, to have lost them overplicd, In liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which all Europe rings from side to side. This thought might lead me thro' the world's vain masque ; Content, though blind, had I no bctter guide." Snch are the unflinching... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 616 էջ
...Friend, to have lost them overplied In liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which all Europe talks from side to side. This thought might lead me through...mask Content, though blind, had I no better guide. WORDSWORTH. Earth has not anything to show more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A... | |
| John Heneage Jesse - 1847 - 474 էջ
...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... | |
| William Ellery Channing - 1848 - 430 էջ
...thou ask ? The conscience, Friend, to have lost them overplied In Liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which all Europe rings from side to side. This...mask, ' Content though blind, had I no better guide." Sonnet XXII. We see Milton's magnanimity in the circumstances under which " Paradise Lost " was written.... | |
| William Ellery Channing - 1849 - 432 էջ
...thou ask ? The conscience, Friend, to have lost them overplied In Liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which all Europe rings from side to side. This...mask, Content though blind, had I no better guide." Sonnet XXII. We see Milton's magnanimity in the circumstances under which " Paradise Lost" was written.... | |
| 1856 - 666 էջ
...thou ask ? The conscience, friend, to have lost them overplied In liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which all Europe rings from side to side. This...mask, Content, though blind, had I no better guide. Truly noble, heroic, and magnanimous, ia the spirit infused into that fine sonnet. It is a deep from... | |
| 1849 - 602 էջ
...thou ask ? The conscience, friend, to have lost them overplied In liberty's defence, my noble task ! Of which all Europe rings from side to side ; This...mask Content, though blind, had I no better guide." All honor to the memory of the man who so steadfastly, courageously, and unrepiningly, alike amid storm... | |
| 1876 - 396 էջ
...thou ask ? The conscience, friend, to have lost them overplied In liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which all Europe rings from side to side. This...thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Conten t, though blind, had I no better guide. It will be seen from this sonnet, that Milton was far... | |
| George Croly - 1849 - 416 էջ
...thou ask ? The conscience, Friend, to have lost them ovcrplied In liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which all Europe rings from side to side. This thought might lead me thro' the world's vain mask Content, though blind, had I no better guide. WHEPs THE ASSAULT WAS INTENDED... | |
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