 | 1849 - 600 էջ
...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." All honor to the memory of the man who so steadfastly, courageously, and unrepiningly, alike amid storm... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1844 - 384 էջ
...honoured her memory with what Johnson (out upon him !) calls a poor sonnet; it is the one beginning Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis from the grave; which, in its solemn and tender strain of feeling and modulated harmony, reminds us of Dante. He never... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 432 էջ
...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 the world's vain...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... | |
 | 1827 - 516 էջ
...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. — Sonnet £2. We see Milton's magnanimity in the circumstances under which Paradise Lost was written.... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1845 - 436 էջ
...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." Sonnet XXII. We see Milton's magnanimity in the circumstances under which " Paradise Lost" was written.... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 616 էջ
...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 the world's vain...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... | |
 | George Frederick Graham, Henry Reed - 1847 - 374 էջ
...would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground. Tempest, i. 1. - like Alceitit, from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave. MILTOH. therefore as far From granting he, as I from begging peace. PL, IT. 104. When, from the soft... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1848 - 430 էջ
...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." Sonnet XXII. We see Milton's magnanimity in the circumstances under which " Paradise Lost " was written.... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1849 - 380 էջ
...this before The things, I have-forsworn to grant, may never Be held by you denials. Coriolamu, v. 3. - like Alcestis, from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave. MILTOH. therefore as far From granting he, as I from begging peace. PL, IT. 104 When, from the soft... | |
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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. 
