 With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp and feast and revelry, With mask and...  The Poetical Works of John Milton - Page 146by John Milton - 1832Full view - About this book
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast,...and revelry, With mask and antique pageantry ; Such eights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon,... | |
 | Jottings - 1847 - 378 pages
...There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, And mask, and antique pageantry ; Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves, by haunted stream." ON the morning of a fine day, late in September, the Beechcroft bells were ringing merrily, and a wedding-procession... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1847 - 366 pages
...There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, And mask, and antique pageantry ; Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves, by haunted stream." ON the morning of a fine day, late in September, the Beechcroft bells were ringing merrily, and a wedding-procession... | |
 | Robert Folkestone Williams - 1847 - 342 pages
...him a very Medusa. CHAPTER XXXII. Now, gentlemen, I go To turn an actor and a humorist. BEN JONSON. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on ; Or sweetest Shakspeare. Fancy's child. Warble his native wood notes wild. MILTON. Seeing too much sadness hath... | |
 | John Milton - 1848 - 154 pages
...tales, to bed they creep, By whisp'ring winds soon lull'd asleep. 10 V There let Hymen oft appear .. In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast,...Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves bv haunted stream. And ever,, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal... | |
 | John Milton - 1848 - 420 pages
...With mask and antique pageantry; Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakspeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild. And ever, against eating cares, Lap me... | |
 | Frederick Charles Cook - 1849 - 144 pages
...Of wit, or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast,...youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's 5 learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakspeare, Fancy's... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast,...youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest SUakspcare, Fancy's child,... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1849 - 416 pages
...contend To win her grace whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper c/ear, And Pomp, and Feast, and Revelry, With Mask, and antique...youthful poets dream, On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Johnson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1849 - 574 pages
...1645 — Milton had offered another testimony to Shakspere in his "I/ Allegro," then published : — " Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned...Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild." Milton was not afraid to publish these lines, even after the suppression of the theatres by his own... | |
| |
