...Euripides — a name which Milton's sonnet has rendered so familiar and holy to modern readers — (" Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis, from the grave:") and who is represented in the drama as voluntarily parting with life — as dying by way of commutation,...

...many a channel " beautiful exceedingly," on their way down to the Great Glen of Night and Death ! *' Methought I saw my late espoused saint, Brought to me, like Alcestis, from the grave ! " So said Milton — in a sonnet written for the whole world — but first of all, for his own soul....

...— " I waked, she fled, and I replunged in night ;" would perhaps be sufficiently unexceptionable. Methought I saw my late espoused saint, Brought to me, like Alcestis, from the grave, far more agreeable than those deadly shades of which Solomon is speaking; but if, as it is written,...

...Euripides — a name which Milton's sonnet has rendered so familiar and holy to modern readers — (" Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis, from the grave :") and who is represented in the drama as voluntarily parting with life — as dying by way of commutation,...

...Milton has three wives, and writes one sonnet on Mrs. Milton No. a— after he buries her! " Methonght I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis from the grave," We are acquainted with Mr. Waller's Amoret and Saccharissa who gave him a cold shoulder, as he deserved,...

...vain mask, Content though blind, had I no other guide.' Todd. XXm. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. METHOD GHT 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 Purification in the old Law...

...appeal to any of our readers, after our Chapter on the Alcestis, against Dr. Johnson's judgement: * ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. METHOUGHT I saw my late espoused...pale and faint. Mine, as whom wash'd from spot of childhood taint. Purification in the old law did save, And such, as yet once more I trust to have Full...

...wait.' SONNET ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. MEIHOCOHT I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Aleestis from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad...child-bed taint, Purification in the old Law did save, I ' Ami such, as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came...

...year, and he consecrated to her memory one of his simple, but M 'Ii inn and touching sonnets : — Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to...gave, Rescued from death by force, though pale and fuint. Mine, as whom wash'd from spot of child-bed taint Purification in i In' old law did save, And...

...Tuscan air ? He who of those delights can judge, and spare To interpose them oft, is not unwise. V.—ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. METHOUGHT I saw my late espoused...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...