 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,...  Specimens of the British Poets - Seite 259von Thomas Campbell - 1844 - 716 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Milton - 1871 - 92 Seiten
...the world's vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide. X. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. METHOUGHT I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis,...her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by force, tho' pale and faint. Mine, as whom wash'd from spot of child-bed taint 5 Purification in the old Law... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Phillips - 1872 - 614 Seiten
...word's vain Content, though blind, had I no better guide. , XXIII. \ ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. MEinouonr I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alcestis...Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint. Came vested all in white, pure as her mind : Her face was veil'd, yet to my fancied sight Love, sweetness,... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1872 - 510 Seiten
...husband. Milton alludes to the story of Alcestis in his Sonnet " on his deceased wile." " Mcthought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alcestis...Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint." JR Lowell has chosen the " Shepherd of King Admetus " for the subject of a short poem. He makes thai... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1913 - 972 Seiten
...her husband. Milton alludes to the story of Alcestis in his Sonnet "on his deceased wife:" "Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alcestis...Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint." JR Lowell has chosen the "Shepherd of King Admetus" for the subject of a short poem. He makes that... | |
 | Jon Stallworthy - 1986 - 422 Seiten
...content to live Divided, with but half a heart, Till we shall meet and never part. 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 childbed taint, Purification in the old Law did save, And such, as yet once more... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley - 1995 - 682 Seiten
...of Thessaly, on the river Peneiis. Illustrative. Milton's sonnet, On his Deceased Wife : Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alcestis...Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint. Chaucer, Legende of Good Women, 208 etseq. ; Court of Love (?), 100 et seq. Poems. Robert Browning's... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1993 - 390 Seiten
...her husband. Milton alludes to the story of Alcestis in his Sonnet 'On his deceased wife': Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alcestis...Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint. JR Lowell has chosen the 'Shepherd of King Admetus' for the subject of a short poem. He makes that... | |
 | John Milton - 1994 - 630 Seiten
...burden loads the day, Sonnet 1" Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alcestis192 from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad...Death by force, though pale and faint. Mine, as whom washed from spot of childbed taint Purification in the Old Law193 did save, And such as yet once more... | |
 | Masson - 1995 - 228 Seiten
...please, With these poor offerings, a man like thee. JOHN KEATS 12 DEATH On His Dead 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 childbed taint Purification in the old Law did save, And such as yet once more... | |
 | James Russell Kincaid - 1995 - 288 Seiten
...Milton might do when unfolded. Here are the two poems in question, Milton first: Sonnet XXIII 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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