 | Authors, English - 1855 - 834 pages
...METHOCGIIT I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Älcestis from the grave, Whom Jove's greatson to her glad husband gave Rescued from death by force, though pale an J taint. Mine, as whom wash'd from spot of child-bed taint, Purification in the old Law did save,... | |
 | William Ross Wallace - Death - 1856 - 192 pages
...those are slumbering, side by side, "Who, like thyself, have suffered, toiled and died. DAILY NEWS. METHOUGHT I saw my late espoused Saint Brought to...Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint. ***** Her face was veiled, yet to my fancied sight, Love, sweetness, goodness in her person shin'd... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - Mythology - 1856 - 512 pages
...recovered, and was restored to her husband. Milton alludes to the story of Alcestis in his Sonnet " on his deceased wife." " Methought I saw my late espoused...great son to her glad husband gave, Rescued from death hy force, though pale and faint." JR Lowell has chosen the " Shepherd of King Admetus " for the subject... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1856 - 384 pages
...nature's germins tumble all together, Even till destruction sicken, answer me To what I ask you. 366. Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to...grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescu'd from death by force, though pale and faint. Mine (as whom wash'd from spot of child-bed taint... | |
 | George Frederick Graham, Henry Reed - English language - 1856 - 372 pages
...giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant. Meos.for Meos.j ii. 2. like Aleestis, from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by force MILTON. ' Somuts she has a hidden strength Which you remember not. Sec. Rro. What hidden strength Unless... | |
 | James Hamilton - Christian literature, English - 1857 - 494 pages
...land and ocean without rest ; They also serve who only stand and wait." ©n fit's beeeaseti JFu'fe. Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to...death by force, though pale and faint ; Mine, as whom wash'd from spot of child-bed taint Purification in th' old law did save, And such as yet once more... | |
 | William Artman, Lansing V. Hall, L. V. Hall - Blind - 1857 - 404 pages
...and offers us the welcome opportunity of drawing upon our own experience, we gladly give it room : Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to...Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint. Mice as whom wash'd from spot of child-bed taint Purification in the old Law did save, And such, as... | |
 | William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1857 - 736 pages
...has left us this testimony, his twentysecond sonnet : — " Methought I saw my late espoused saiot Brought to me, like Alcestis from the grave, Whom...death by force, though pale and faint. Mine, as whom washeti from spot of childbed taint. Purification in the old law did save. And such as yet once more... | |
 | Villemain (M.) - French literature - 1857 - 490 pages
...époux, encore « toute pâle et languissante. La mienne, semblable à la * Me thought, I saw my laie espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis, from...grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Kesuued from death l;y force, tho' pale and faint. Mine, as whom wush'd from spot of child-bed taint... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley - Art - 1995 - 682 pages
...Ceres) : Proserpina. Larissa : a city of Thessaly, on the river Peneiis. Illustrative. Milton's sonnet, On his Deceased Wife : Methought I saw my late espoused...Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint. Chaucer, Legende of Good Women, 208 etseq. ; Court of Love (?), 100 et seq. Poems. Robert Browning's... | |
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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... 
