 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
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...repair his strength, And fainting spirits uphold. § 14. Sonnel: on his deceased Wife. MILTON. MBTHOUGHT I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave, Whom Jdve's great son to her glad husband gave, [faint. Rescued from death by force, though pale and Mine,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 366 pages
...thou ask ? The conscience, Friend, to' have lost them overIn liberty's defence, my noble task, [plied Of which all Europe rings from side to side. This...Content, though blind, had I no better guide. XXIII. ON IltS DECEASED WIFE.* METHOUOHT I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis, from the... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 272 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...blind, had I no better guide. XXIII. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE6. METHOUGHT I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestes, from the grave, Whom Jove's... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - 612 pages
...Friend, t' have 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...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... | |
 | Arminianism - 1876 - 1204 pages
...friend, to have lost them overplied In liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which all Europe rings Irom side to side. This thought might lead me through the...mask, Content though blind, had I no better guide." Milton is severe ou woman — unjustly severe. It is well known that liis experience of the married... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - 598 pages
...me, dost thou ask ? Of which all Europe talks from side to side. In liberty's defence, my noble task, 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... | |
 | 1822 - 592 pages
...conscience, Friend, t have 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 mind, had I no better guide." Nothing can exceed the mild, subdued tone of this Sonnet, nor the striking... | |
 | 1822 - 600 pages
...Friend, t* have 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, Contejit though blind, had I no better guide." Nothing can exceed the mild, subdued tone of this Sonnet,... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1823 - 406 pages
...dostthou ask? The conscience, Friend, to' have lost them overIn liberty's defence, my noble task, [plied Of which all Europe rings from side to side. This...mask Content, though blind, had I no better guide. ____ MILTON. <f>n fjis DcrcascD (Elite. METHOUGHT I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1823 - 470 pages
...defence, my noble task, [plied Of which all Europe rings from side to side. This thought mightlead me through the world's vain mask Content, though blind, had I no better guide. MILTON. ©n Ijis Deeeases E£Ufe. METHOUGHT I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis,... | |
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