...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...

...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...

...307, Doctor Cheyne gives an instance even more remarkable than the present, of Death-in-Life. THE DIS My late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis, from the grave, Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint. MILTON. THE DISINTERMENT. ON a fine morning in...

...the world's vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide. XVIII. — ON HIS DECEASED WIPE. METHOUGHT I saw my late espoused saint Brought to...faint. Mine, as whom wash'd from spot of child-bed Purification in the old Law did save, [taint And such, as yet once more I trust to have Full sight...

...within a year, and he consecrated to her memory one of his simple, but solemn and touching sonnets : — And that which casts our proficiency therein so much...universities ; partly in a preposterous exaction, forcing t wash 41 from spot of child-bed taint Purification in the old law did save, And such as yet once more...

...his mild yoke, they serve him best : his state MILTON ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. Methought I saw my Inte espoused saint Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad hushand gave, Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint Mine, as whom washed from spot of...

...affection for his partner who peruses the following touching sonnet, inscribed ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. Methought I saw my late espoused saint, Brought to...from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad hushaud gave, Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint: Mine, as whom, wash'd from spot of...

...world's vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide. XXIII. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. METHOUOHT 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 Purification in the old Law did save,...

...to the memory of his deceased wife, which affords an example of such unalterable attachme nt : — " Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to...grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Bescued from death by force, though pale and faint. Mine, as whom washed from spot of child-bed taint,...

...solemn and touching sonnets : — Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to rae like Alccetis from the grave. Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by forre, though pale and faint. Mine, as whom wash'd from spot of child-bed taint Purification in the...