 | Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - 2000 - 389 էջ
...in my days of nature Are burnt and purg'd away. William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1, v, 9-13 (c. 1603) 10 Methought I saw my late espoused Saint Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave . . . But O as to embrace me she enclin'd, 1 wak'd, she fled, and day brought back my night. John Milton,... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1084 էջ
...long had lost." by Eleanor G. Brown in Milton's Blindness (New SONNET XXIII* METHOUGHT I SAW . . . 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 washt from spot of child-bed taint,... | |
 | Joseph Gerson Mayer - 2004 - 278 էջ
...sometimes be referred to as "reason 1 (conscience)." Lines 13-14 give a second, conflicting answer: This thought might lead me through the world's vain...mask Content though blind, had I no better guide. He is supported by a better guide than satisfaction in public set.vice. This guide—probably some... | |
 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - 2007 - 778 էջ
...in our bedroom, under my heel. . . . YOSA BUSON JAPANESE (1716-1783) TRANSLATED BY HAROLD HENDERSON On His Deceased Wife Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Akestis from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescu'd from death by force... | |
 | Donald T. Blume - 2004 - 426 էջ
...wife — dead within the first year of their wedlock, and dying in childbed. "Methought," it begins, "I saw my late espoused saint brought to me, like Alcestis, from the grave;" and it ends with telling how she Came vested all in white, pure as her mind; Her face was veiled; yet... | |
 | Ambrose Bierce - 2004 - 264 էջ
...wife—dead within the first year of their wedlock, and dying in childbed. "Methought," it begins, "I saw my late espoused saint brought to me, like Alcestis, from the grave;" and it ends with telling how she Came vested all in white, pure as her mind; Her face was veiled; yet... | |
 | Alden Smith - 2005 - 272 էջ
...atque haec mirantibus addit: 'aspice . . .' VIRGIL, Aen. 6.854-855 Methought I saw my late epoused saint, Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave, Whom Jove's Great Son to her sad husband gave, Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint, Mine as whom washed from spot... | |
 | Thomas R. Frosch - 2007 - 368 էջ
...Milton's closest approaches to Romanticism occurs in still another version of Adam's dream, his Sonnet 23: 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. She comes to him now as he will someday see her... | |
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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. 
