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Page iv
... . This drama was not to be generally character- ifed by its fongs and odes : nor do I know that softness and sweetness , although they want nei- ther , ther , are particularly characteristical of those paffages , which iv PREFACE .
... . This drama was not to be generally character- ifed by its fongs and odes : nor do I know that softness and sweetness , although they want nei- ther , ther , are particularly characteristical of those paffages , which iv PREFACE .
Page v
... those paffages , which are most commonly rough with ftrong and crouded images , and rich in personi- fication . However , the Song to Echo , and the initial ftrains of Comus's invocation , are much in the style which Wootton describes ...
... those paffages , which are most commonly rough with ftrong and crouded images , and rich in personi- fication . However , the Song to Echo , and the initial ftrains of Comus's invocation , are much in the style which Wootton describes ...
Page xii
... those very reasons which constitute its effential and specific merit , from this intro- duction to notice , COMUS grew popular as a poem . L'ALLEGRO and IL PENSEROSO were set to music by Handel in 1741 ; and his ex- preffive harmonies ...
... those very reasons which constitute its effential and specific merit , from this intro- duction to notice , COMUS grew popular as a poem . L'ALLEGRO and IL PENSEROSO were set to music by Handel in 1741 ; and his ex- preffive harmonies ...
Page xiii
... those years in which imagination is on the wing , were unworthily and unprofita- bly wafted on temporary topics , on elaborate but perishable differtations in defence of innova- tion and anarchy . To this employment he fa- crificed his ...
... those years in which imagination is on the wing , were unworthily and unprofita- bly wafted on temporary topics , on elaborate but perishable differtations in defence of innova- tion and anarchy . To this employment he fa- crificed his ...
Page xvi
... those attached to the English text , I have thought it proper to introduce them to the reader's acquaintance by fome general remarks , from which an estimate of their character might be preparatively formed , and at one view . Our ...
... those attached to the English text , I have thought it proper to introduce them to the reader's acquaintance by fome general remarks , from which an estimate of their character might be preparatively formed , and at one view . Our ...
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againſt alfo allufion alſo Amor antient becauſe beſt called cauſe circumftance COMUS deceaſed Doctor Newton doth Drayton edit Engliſh Euripides expreffion FAERIE QUEENE faid FAITHFUL SHEPHERDESS fame fays fecond feems fenfe fent fhades fhall fhepherd fhew fhould fing firft firſt Fletcher folemn fome fong foon foul ftill fubject fuch fuppofed fupr fweet hath heaven Henry Lawes HEROID himſelf houſe ibid IL PENSEROSO Iliad inftances ipfe John Milton Jonfon king L'ALLEGRO Lady laft laſt Latin Lond Lord LYCIDAS manufcript Maſk METAM mihi Milton moft moſt mufic muſt night Note Nymphs obferves Ovid paffage paftoral PARAD PARADISE LOST perhaps pleaſure poem poet poetry praiſe prefent profe PROSE-WORKS publiſhed quæ queen Robin Goodfellow Shakeſpeare ſhall ſhe Sonnet ſpeaks Spenfer ſtill thee thefe Theocritus theſe thofe thoſe thou tibi uſed verfe verſes whofe whoſe words