 LAWRENCE, of virtuous father virtuous son, Now that the fields are dank, and ways are mire, Where shall we sometimes meet, and by the fire Help waste a sullen day, what may be won From the hard season gaining? Time will run On smoother, till Favonius...  Retrospective Review - Page 392edited by - 1823Full view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1863 - 982 pages
...And when this dust falls to the urn, In that state I came, return. //. Vaughan LXXVI TO MR. LAWRENCE LAWRENCE, of virtuous father virtuous son, Now that...frozen earth, and clothe in fresh attire The lily and rose, that neither sow'd nor spun. Warble immortal notes and Tuscan air ? He who of those delights... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 438 pages
...this dust falls to the urn, In that state I came, return. //. Vaughan LXXVI TO MR. LAWRENCE LA^VRENCE, of virtuous father virtuous son, Now that the fields...be won From the hard season gaining ? Time will run Cn smoother, till Favonius re-inspire The frozen earth, and clothe in fresh attire The lily and rose,... | |
 | John Milton - 1864 - 584 pages
...post o'er land and ocean without rest ; They also serve who only stand and wait." TO MR. LAWRENCE. LAWRENCE ! of virtuous father virtuous son, Now that...frozen earth, and clothe in fresh attire The lily and rose, that neither sowed nor spun. What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice, Of Attic taste,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1864 - 406 pages
...frequently so used; and so is help, sometimes,—as in Milton's Sonnet to his friend Lawrence:— " Where shall we sometimes meet, and by the fire Help waste a sullen day r " But, even since the language may be said to have entered upon the stage of its existence in which... | |
 | John Milton - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 412 pages
...Ocean without rest: They also serve who only stand and waite. XX Lawrence of vertuous Father vertuous Son, Now that the Fields are dank, and ways are mire,...Where shall we sometimes meet, and by the fire Help wast a sullen day; what may be won From the hard Season gaining: time will run $ On smoother, till... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...o'er land and ocean without rest ; They also serve who only stand and wait." TO MR. LAWRENCE (1656) LAWRENCE, of virtuous father virtuous son, Now that...frozen earth, and clothe in fresh attire The lily and rose, that neither sowed nor spun. What neat repast shall feast us. light and choice, Of Attic taste,... | |
 | Stanley Fish - Education - 1980 - 412 pages
...frozen and the day sullen. The only controversy the sonnet has inspired concerns its final two lines: Lawrence of virtuous father virtuous son, Now that...frozen earth; and clothe in fresh attire The lily and rose, that neither sowed nor spun. What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice, Of Attic taste,... | |
 | John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...Ocean without resl: They also serve who only fland and waite. 5 Lawrence ofvertuous Father vertuous Son Now that the Fields are dank, and ways are mire,...Where shall we sometimes meet, and by the fire Help was! a sullen day; what may be won From the hard Season gaining: time will run On smoother, till Favonius... | |
 | John Thelwall - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 464 pages
...return to Milton, whose other model of perfection, I find, is his SONNET XX. To Mr. Laurence. 'Laurence, of virtuous father virtuous son, Now that the fields...frozen earth, and clothe in fresh attire The lily and rose, that neither sow'd nor spun. What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice, Of Attic taste,... | |
 | Joshua Scodel - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 388 pages
...octave Milton emphasizes that the pleasures he offers respond decorously to the conditions of the times: Lawrence of virtuous father virtuous son, Now that...may be won From the hard season gaining: time will mn On smoother, till Favonius reinspire The frozen earth; and clothe in fresh attire The lily and rose,... | |
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