 | Henry Morley - 1873 - 964 pages
...: " Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave. * » * * • And such as yet once more I trust to have Full sight...vested all in white, pure as her mind : Her face was veil'd, yet to my fancied sight, Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined So clear, as in no... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 504 pages
...world's vain mask Content, though blind, had I no better guide. XXIIL [ON HIS DECEASED WIFE.] METHOUGHT I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alcestis...fancied sight Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined So clear as in no face with more delight. But, oh ! as to embrace me she inclined, I waked,... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 518 pages
...world's vain mask Content, though blind, had I no better guide. XXIII. [ON HIS DECEASED WIFE.] METHOUGHT I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alcestis...fancied sight Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shineti So clear as in no face with more delight. But, oh ! as to embrace me she inclined, I waked,... | |
 | Dawn - 1874 - 340 pages
...force, though pale and faint. Mine, as whom washed from spot of child-bed taint, -O ON MA Y MORNING. Purification in the old law did save ; And such, as...fancied sight Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined So clear, as in no face with more delight. But oh ! as to embrace me she inclined, I waked —... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - 1874 - 432 pages
...Eescu'd from death by force, though pale and faint. Mine, as whom washt from spot of child-bed taiut, Purification in the Old Law did save, And such, as...vested all in white, pure as her mind. Her face was veil'd, yet, to my fancied sight, Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person sliin'd So clear, as in... | |
 | James Cargill Guthrie - 1875 - 558 pages
...extent, comparatively enjoyed the comforts and pleasures of the homelife of genius : — " Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis,...Her face was veiled ; yet to my fancied sight Love, sweetest goodness, in her bosom shined, So clear, as in no face with more delight, But, 0 ! as to embrace... | |
 | James Cargill Guthrie - 1875 - 550 pages
...extent, comparatively enjoyed the comforts and pleasures of the homelife of genius : — " Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis,...Her face was veiled ; yet to my fancied sight Love, sweetest goodness, in her bosom shined, So clear, as in no face with more delight, But, 0 ! as to embrace... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pages
...memory one of his simple, but solemn and touching sonnets : Sonnet on his Deceased Wife. Methought n a subsequent age, were communicated to the world....lover and praiser of himself; a contemner and scorner goodness, sweetness, in her person shincd So clear, as in no face with more delight. But, oh ! as to... | |
 | David Masson - 1877 - 732 pages
...that he will keep it as a sacred memory for himself in the last of all his Sonnets : — "Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alcestis...fancied sight Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined So clear as in no face with more delight. But oh ! as to embrace me she inclined, I waked, she... | |
 | William Howitt - 1877 - 732 pages
...washed from spot of childbed taint, ratification in the old law did save. And such as yet once more 1 trust to have Full sight of her in heaven without...fancied sight, Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person sinned So clear, as in no face with more delight. But, oh ! at to embrace me she inclined, I walked,... | |
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METHOUGHT I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescued from Death by force, though pale and faint. Mine, as whom washed from spot of child-bed taint Purification in the... 
