 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Love poetry - 1844 - 384 pages
...honoured her memory with what Johnson (out upon him !) calls a poor sonnet; it is the one beginning Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis from the grave; which, in its solemn and tender strain of feeling and modulated harmony, reminds us of Dante. He never... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Great Britain - 1845 - 432 pages
...is not unwise." In the last, On his deceased Wife, the allusion to Alcestis is beautiful, and shows how the poet's mind raised and refined his thoughts...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... | |
 | William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1847 - 524 pages
...character of this excellent woman, he has left us that beautiful testimony, his twenty-second sonnet : Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to...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... | |
 | English literature - 1847 - 482 pages
...endeavoured to make him appear, he would never have written as he did, — ON BI8 DECEASED WIFE. " Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to...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... | |
 | 1847 - 488 pages
...endeavoured to make him appear, he would never have written as he did, — ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. " Methoaght 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1847 - 604 pages
...through the world's vam Content, though blind, had I no better guide. XXIII. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE.* METHOUGHT I saw my late espoused saint, Brought to...gave, Rescued from death by force, though pale and fairu Mine, as whom wash'd from spot of child-bed taint, Purification in the old law did save, And... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...solemn and touching sonnets : — Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alccstis from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad...whom wash'd from spot of child-bed taint Purification hi the old law did save, And such as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in heaven without... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Historic buildings - 1847 - 474 pages
...wife, who died in childbed, and to whose death we owe one of the most beautiful of his sonnets ; — Methought I saw my late espoused saint, Brought to me, like Alcestis, from the grave, &c. and here it was that the great poet became totally blind. Milton resided in Petty France, from... | |
 | George Frederick Graham, Henry Reed - English language - 1847 - 374 pages
...would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground. Tempest, i. 1. - like Alceitit, from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave. MILTOH. therefore as far From granting he, as I from begging peace. PL, IT. 104. When, from the soft... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - English language - 1849 - 380 pages
...this before The things, I have-forsworn to grant, may never Be held by you denials. Coriolamu, v. 3. - like Alcestis, from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave. MILTOH. therefore as far From granting he, as I from begging peace. PL, IT. 104 When, from the soft... | |
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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, pure as her mind. Her face was... 
