 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.  The Poetical Works of John Milton - Page 215by John Milton - 1832Full view - About this book
 | William Johnson Fox - Death - 1838 - 72 pages
...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,... | |
 | Scotland - 1838 - 894 pages
...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.... | |
 | England - 1839 - 684 pages
...thou ask ? 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...mask, Content, though blind, had I no better guide. WHEN THE ASSAULT WAS INTENDED TO THE CITY. Captain or Colonel, or Knight in arms, Whose Chance on these... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...them overplied In liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which all Europe rings from side to side. 12 This thought might lead me through the world's vain...mask Content though blind, had I no better guide. 3 Bereft, &e.] In the printed copies, ' Bereft of sight their seeing have forgot, Nor to their idle... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - English literature - 1840 - 352 pages
...thou ask ? 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...mask, Content though blind, had I no better guide." There is something particularly impressive and affecting in the fact, that with the dignity of a prophet... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 354 pages
...thou ask ? 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...mask, Content though blind, had I no better guide." There is something particularly impressive and affecting in the fact, that with the dignity of a prophet... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - English literature - 1840 - 376 pages
...tliou ask ? 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...mask, Content though blind, had I no better guide." There is something particularly impressive and affecting in the fact, that with the dignity of a prophet... | |
 | Charles Knight - London (England) - 1841 - 918 pages
...thou ask ? 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...mask Content, though blind, had I no better guide/' The European fame of the author of the 'Defensio pro Populo Anglicano' was not overstated by the poet.... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...thou ask ? 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...mask Content, though blind, had I no better guide." The following extracts are only portions of his own defence. " I was confirmed in this opinion, that... | |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church - 1857 - 830 pages
...friond, to hare lost them overplied In liberty's defense, my noble task, Of which all Europe talks from side to side. This thought might lead me through...world's vain mask, Content, though blind, had I no hotter guide." Can it be that the torrent which Before leaped so madly and so loudly from rock to rock... | |
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