...solemn and touching sonnets : — Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alccstis rée. @k ! child-bed taint Purification hi the old law did save, And such as yet once more I trust to have Full...

...wife, who died in childbed, and to whose death we owe one of the most beautiful of his sonnets ; — Methought I saw my late espoused saint, Brought to me, like Alcestis, from the grave, &c. and here it was that the great poet became totally blind. Milton resided in Petty France, from...

...would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground. Tempest, i. 1. - like Alceitit, from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave. MILTOH. therefore as far From granting he, as I from begging peace. PL, IT. 104. When, from the soft...

...this before The things, I have-forsworn to grant, may never Be held by you denials. Coriolamu, v. 3. - like Alcestis, from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave. MILTOH. therefore as far From granting he, as I from begging peace. PL, IT. 104 When, from the soft...

...307, Doctor Cheyne gives an instance even more remarkable than the present, of Death-in-Life. THE DIS My late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis, from the grave, Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint. MILTON. THE DISINTERMENT. ON a fine morning in...

...within a year, and he consecrated to her memory one of his simple, but solemn and touching sonnets : — And that which casts our proficiency therein so much...universities ; partly in a preposterous exaction, forcing t wash 41 from spot of child-bed taint Purification in the old law did save, And such as yet once more...

...his mild yoke, they serve him best : his state MILTON ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. Methought I saw my Inte espoused saint Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad hushand gave, Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint Mine, as whom washed from spot of...

...inscribed ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. Methought I saw my late espoused saint, Brought to me, like Aleestis from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad...pale and faint : Mine, as whom, wash'd from spot of childbed taint, Purification in the old law did save, And such, as yet once more I trust to have Full...

...affection for his partner who peruses the following touching sonnet, inscribed ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. Methought I saw my late espoused saint, Brought to...from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad hushaud gave, Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint: Mine, as whom, wash'd from spot of...

...day-time of his soul. What pathos does this lend to the last line? "Methought I saw my late-eapoused saint Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave,...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...