| John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...convinc't; Yet should I try, the uncontrouled worth wre cause would kindle my rapt Spirits To such a fame of sacred vehemence, That dumb things would be mov'd...Earth would lend her nerves, and shake, Till all thy magick flruftures rear'd so high, Were shatter a into heaps o're thy false head. Co. She fables not,... | |
| John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...rhetoric, 790 That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence; Thou art not fit to hear thyself convinced. Of this pure cause would kindle my rapt spirits To...flame of sacred vehemence That dumb things would be moved to sympathize, And the brute Earth would lend her nerves, and shake, Till all thy magic structures,... | |
| British Academy - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 736 pages
...her dazzling fence. Thou art not fit to hear thyself convinced; Yet should I try, the uncontrolled worth Of this pure cause would kindle my rapt spirits...flame of sacred vehemence. That dumb things would be moved to sympathize. And the brute Earth would lend her nerves. and shake. Till all thy magic structures... | |
| Dennis Kezar Assistant Professor of English Vanderbilt University - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 282 pages
...Lady of Cambridge as she threatens Comus with Orpheus's power: 84 Yet should I try, the uncontrolled worth Of this pure cause would kindle my rapt spirits...flame of sacred vehemence, That dumb things would be moved to sympathize, And the brute Earth would lend her nerves, and shake, Till all thy magic structures... | |
| John T. Shawcross - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 176 pages
...114) and ideas which have just been raised: Yet should I try [to convince Comus], the uncontrouled worth Of this pure cause would kindle my rapt spirits...flame of sacred vehemence, That dumb things would be mov'ti to sympathize, And the brute Earth would lend her nerves, and shake, Till all thy magick structures... | |
| Claude J. Summers, Ted-Larry Pebworth - History - 2002 - 248 pages
...this thy present lot. Thou art not fit to hear thyself convinc't; Yet should I try, the uncontrolled worth Of this pure cause would kindle my rapt spirits...high, Were shatter'd into heaps o'er thy false head. 2 The Lady is Milton's first fully developed hero of faith. Her profession of virginity is a declaration... | |
| Blair Hoxby - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 332 pages
...Virginitie" (lines 786-87), she spares Comus to see another day: Yet should I trie, the uncontrouled worth Of this pure cause would kindle my rap't spirits...Earth would lend her nerves, and shake, Till all thy magick structures rear'd so high, Were shatter'd into heaps ore thy false head. (lines 793-99) This... | |
| David Norbrook - History - 2002 - 362 pages
...idea of the power of speech: if she really unfolded the whole mystery of virginity, the uncontrolled worth Of this pure cause would kindle my rapt spirits...flame of sacred vehemence, That dumb things would be moved to sympathi/e. And the brute Earth would lend her nerves, and shake, Till all thy magic structures... | |
| John Milton - Poetry - 2003 - 1084 pages
...her dazzling fence, Thou art not fit to hear thyself convinc't; Yet should I try, the uncontrolled worth Of this pure cause would kindle my rapt spirits To such a flame of sacred vehemence, 795 That dumb things would be mov'd to sympathize, And the brute Earth would lend her nerves, and shake,... | |
| John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...convinced; Yet should I try, the uncontrolled worth0 Of this pure cause would kindle my rapt spirits0 To such a flame of sacred vehemence. That dumb things would be moved to sympathi2e, And the brute Earth would lend her nerves, and shake,0 Till all thy magic structures... | |
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