...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, XVIII, On his deceased Wife. METHOUGHT I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis, from...

...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 belter guide. It is impossible to read such productions without becoming wiser and better : for they...

...defence, my noble task, Of which all Europe talks from side to side. This thought might lead me thro' the world's vain mask, Content, though blind, had I no better guide. This Cyriac Skinner is believed to have been the son of the Rev. Robert Skinner, DD, who was Bishop...

...prsferre debeam." Milton alluùes to this play of his favorite author in the opening lines of the sonnet on his deceased wife : " Methought I saw my late espoused...grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Ransomed from death by force, though pale and faint." The young student, however, is not to suppose...

...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...

...Did n not glide in with the stillness of night, and, enacting We, draw Miltcn'a curtain'; " Melhonght I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis,...grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Uescu'd irom death by force, though pale and faint. Mice, as whom, wash'd from spot of cnildbed taint,...

...them, overplied In Liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which all Enrope rings from side to side : This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask, Content, though blind, had I no other guide. Of the completion of his misfortune, the date is by no means accurately settled. All his...

...Euripides — a name which Milton's sonnet has rendered so familiar and holy to modern readers — (" Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis, from the grave:") and who is represented in the drama as voluntarily parting with life — as dying by way of commutation,...

...channel " beautiful exceedingly," on their way down to the Great Glen of Night and Death ! " Methouglit I saw my late espoused saint, Brought to me, like Alcestis, from the grave ! " So said Milton — in a sonnet written for the whole world — but first of all, for his own soul....

...1 Did it not glide in with the stillness of night, and, enacting life, draw Milton's curtain t . " Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis, from tho grave. Whom Jove's great eon to her glad husband gave, Rescu'd from death by force, though pale...