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" Return, Alpheus; the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. "
Licida, di Giovanni Milton: Mondodia per la morte del naufragato Eduardo King - Page 52
by John Milton - 1812 - 55 pages
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Pictures of Life. [In verse.]

Elijah Ridings - 1850 - 200 pages
...Written after reading the book of Job, and Leigh Hunt's Translations from the Greek. Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian muse. MILTON. 0 ! let me live, and pass my future days, Far from the town, and all its sordid ways, In some...
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The British Sylva, and Planters' and Foresters' Manual

1851 - 222 pages
...and running waters, and consequently with those beautiful scenes which nature often presents — " In valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades,...On whose fresh lap the swart star sparely looks," will ever render the aspen an agreeable object with those whose regard for trees is* not limited by...
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The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men and Things, Volume 1

William Hazlitt - 1851 - 394 pages
...years ago, " that the moat accomplished prince in Europe was an Adonis of fifty ! " " Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse ! " I look out of my window and see that a shower has just fallen : the fields look green after it,...
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The Works of the British Poets, Selected and Chronologically Arranged ...

1852 - 874 pages
...two-handed engine at the door I30 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return, Alpheus, er, though a monarch reign, Their separate cells and...webs shall draw, Entangle Justice in her net of Law, swart-star sparely looks ; Throw hither all your quaint enamell'd eyes, That on the green turf suck...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 3

John Milton - 1852 - 350 pages
...Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells, and flow'rets of a thousand hues. i-i5 Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks, >» Grate] Virg. Eel. iii. 26. ' solebus Strideuti miserum stipulii dispendere carmen.' Neuto«. i25...
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The British Quarterly Review, Volume 15

Henry Allon - 1852 - 620 pages
...it Observe, in comparison, how a poet like Milton gathers flowers. The quotation is from Lycidas. ' Return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowrets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,...
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Milton's Poetical Works: With Life, Critical Dissertation, and ..., Volume 2

John Milton, George Gilfillan - 1853 - 376 pages
...that two-handed engine4 at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return, Alpheus,6 the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams ;...winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart-star1 sparely looks ; Throw hither all your quaint enau1ell'd eyes, That on the green turf suck...
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Milton's Poetical Works: With Life, Critical ..., Page 109, Volume 2

John Milton - 1853 - 372 pages
...that two-handed engine* at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return, Alpheus,6 the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams ;...hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use 1 ' The pilot : ' Peter.—2 ' Scrannel : ' screeching.—3 ' Sed : ' old spelling for said. — 4...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 3

John Milton - 1853 - 344 pages
...that two-handed engine at the door isc Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams ;...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells, and flow'rets of a thousand hues. 135 Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton...
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The Beauties of the British Poets, with a Few Introductory Observations

George Croly - 1854 - 426 pages
...that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams ;...winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart-star sparely looks, Throw hither all your quaint enamelled eyes, That on the green-turf suck...
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