 | Alexander Henley Grant - 1865 - Liczba stron: 414
...illumination, He stole the pagan revelation.' SONNET ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. JOHN MILTON. ' Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis,...death by force, though pale and faint. Mine, as whom washed from spot of child-bed taint Purification in the old law did save ; And such, as yet once more... | |
 | Alexander Henley Grant - 1865 - Liczba stron: 414
...illumination, Pie stole the pagan revelation.' SONNET ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. JOHN MILTON. ' Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis,...death by force, though pale and faint. Mine, as whom washed from spot of child-bed taint Purification in the old law did save ; And such, as yet once more... | |
 | William Adolphus Wheeler - 1865 - Liczba stron: 462
...husband's life, she died in his stead, but was brought back to the upper world by Hercules. Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alcestis...Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint. Milton. Al-oi'dêç. [Gr. 'ААки'%.] (Gr. o? Roui, Myth.) A patronymic or title of Hercules, the... | |
 | 1866 - Liczba stron: 376
...world's vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide. XXIII. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. METHOUGHT I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis,...grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Kescued from death by force tho' pale and faint. Mine, as whom wash'd from spot of child-bed Purification... | |
 | Leigh Hunt, Samuel Adams Lee - 1867 - Liczba stron: 722
...Lawrence was the son of the President of Cromwell's Council. VIII. A DREAM OF HIS LOST WIFE. METHOUGHT I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis,...death by force, though pale and faint. Mine (as whom, washed from spot of child-bed taint, Purification in th' old Law did save, And such as yet once more... | |
 | English poetry - 1869 - Liczba stron: 328
...to her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint. Mine, as whom washed from spot of child-bed taint Purification in the old...have Full sight of her in heaven without restraint, Game vested all in white, pure as her mind : Her face was veiled ; yet to my fancied sight Love, sweetness,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1869 - Liczba stron: 504
...voluptuous dignity and touching purity to Milton's delineation of the female character : — • " Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alcestis...grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Eescued from death by force, though pale and faint. Mine, as whom wash'd from spot of child-bed taint... | |
 | John Milton - 1870 - Liczba stron: 356
...her. Witness the eighteenth, like that on the Martyrs of Piedmont, a ' collect in verse.' " Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis,...pale and faint. Mine, as whom wash'd from spot of child- bed taint Purification in the old law did save, And such as yet once more I trust to have Full... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1870 - Liczba stron: 524
...a/wißas àfi'aç караоокем. j. GL 468 ON HIS DECEASED WIFE Methought I saw my late-espoused saint brought to me like Alcestis from the grave,...death by force, though pale and faint. Mine, as -whom washed from spot of child-bed taint, purification in the Old Law did save, and such, as yet once more... | |
 | John Milton - 1870 - Liczba stron: 436
...Content, though blind, had I no better guide. XVIII. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. (Feb. 1658 ?) METHOUGHT I saw my late espoused saint, Brought to me like Alcestis...grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescu'd from Death by force, though pale and faint. Mine, as whom washt from spot of child-bed taint... | |
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Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint. Mine, as whom washed from spot of child-bed taint Purification in the old law did save, And such, as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white,... 
