 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...  Dean Ireland Scholarship - Página xiiipor University of Oxford - 1833Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Milton - 1839 - 496 páginas
...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... | |
 | Henry Alford - 1841 - 272 páginas
...readers, after our Chapter on the Alcestis, against Dr. Johnson's judgement: * ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. METHOUGHT I saw my late espoused saint Brought to...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... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1841 - 346 páginas
...Sleep's golden keys the dusky chambers of Persephone, and brings her back for a moment to light : — " Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to...Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint, j Mine, as whom washed from spot of child-bed taint Purification in the old law did save And such,... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 92 páginas
...those delights can judge, and spare To interpose them oft, is not unwise. V.—ON HIS 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... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1844 - 384 páginas
...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... | |
 | Robert Sears - 1844 - 514 páginas
...great son to lier glad husband gnve, Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint. Mine, as when wash'd from spot of child-bed taint Purification in the old law did save, And MK-li as ycl "lice inoro I trust to have Full Sicht n!' hrr in Hrav'n without restraint, Came, vested... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 432 páginas
...gives such voluptuous dignity and touching purity to Milton's delineation of the female character. " Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to...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... | |
 | 1847 - 482 páginas
...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... | |
 | William Howitt - 1847 - 524 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1847 - 488 páginas
...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... | |
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