Had ye been there, for what could that have done? What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself for her enchanting son, Whom universal nature did lament, When by the rout that made the hideous roar, His gory visage down the stream was... Elegant extracts in poetry - Página 745por Elegant extracts - 1816Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 páginas
...herself that Orpheus bore. The Muse herself, for her enchanting son Whom universal nature did lament, MI When by the rout that made the hideous roar, His gory...Hebrus to the Lesbian shore? Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade. And strictly meditate the thankless Muse?... | |
| Peter C. Herman - 1996 - 294 páginas
...dream! Had ye been there — for what could that have done? What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself, for her enchanting son Whom...sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore? (11. 56-63) The inability of the Muses to protect their own leads Milton, as Evans writes, to question... | |
| William Riley Parker - 1996 - 708 páginas
...Milton of one of his favourite stories, the myth of Orpheus: What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself, for her enchanting son Whom...rout that made the hideous roar His gory visage down M3e stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore. (58-63) Poets die suddenly, and the... | |
| Melissa Fran Zeiger - 1997 - 228 páginas
...dream — Had ye been there — for what could that have done? What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself, for her enchanting son Whom...stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore?14 Each set of female figures in the passage — nymphs, Muse, murderous maenads — is succeeded... | |
| William Harmon - 1998 - 386 páginas
...dream! Had ye been there ... for what could that have done? What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself, for her enchanting son? Whom...swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore. Alas! What boots it witli uncessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless... | |
| Geoffrey Miles - 1999 - 474 páginas
...to magically shift its course as an omen of disaster. The Muse herself, for her enchanting son, 60 Whom universal nature did lament, When by the rout...sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore. (d) from Paradise Lost, 1667 These are the opening lines of Book 7 (1-39), at the mid-point of Paradise... | |
| Kent Gramm - 2001 - 350 páginas
...dream! Had ye been there— for what could that have done? What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself, for her enchanting son Whom...Hebrus to the Lesbian shore? Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse?... | |
| John Milton - 2003 - 1084 páginas
...Arc, 53. victorie to the inhabitants upon it" by changing its Whom Universal nature did lament, 60 When by the rout that made the hideous roar, His gory...Hebrus to the Lesbian shore? Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherd's trade, 65 And strictly meditate the thankless... | |
| Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 2004 - 592 páginas
...master in mournful strains." . Ovid 's " Metamorphoses. ' ' "What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself for her enchanting son, Whom...sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore? ' ' Milton's "Lycidas." XIV ORPHANT ANNIE 135 ORSINO Orphant Annie. A bound girl, who is credited by... | |
| Diane Purkiss - 2005 - 324 páginas
...mother to defend him from the assaults of maddened women: What could the muse herself thac Orpheus bore, The muse herself for her enchanting son Whom...hideous roar, His gory visage down the stream was sent. (11. 58-62) So important is this figure of Orpheus to Milton's project of selffashioning as a poet... | |
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