...guide. On bis deeeased Wife. Aie1гюи»Ы I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Aleestis from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Reseued from death by foree, though pale and faint. Mine, as whom wash'd from spot of ehild-bed taint,...

...ever loved, he addressed the following sonnet, rather a dull one in its way, after her death : — Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to...her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by force, tho' pale and faint. Mine> as whom wash'd from spot of child-bed taint Purification in the old law...

...ever loved, he addressed the following sonnet, rather a dull one in its way, after her death : — Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to...her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by force, tho' pale and faint. Minei as whom wash'd from spot of child-bed taint Purification in the old law...

...through the 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...her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by force, tho' pale and faint. Mine, as whom wash'd from spot of child-bed Purification in the old Law did save,...

...this melancholy event, were vented in the following most touching Sonnet : — ON HIE DECEASED WIFE. " Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to...Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint : * Simmona's Life of MILTON, note, p. 456. Mine, as whom washed from spot of child-bed taint Purification...

...the world's vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide. JOHN MILTON. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. 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...

...this melancholy event, were vented in the following most touching Sonnet : — OK HIS DECEASED WIFE. " Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to...grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Re scued from death by force, though pale and faint : * Simmons's Life of MILTON, note, p. 456. Mine,...

...refrains. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE.' MF.THODGHT I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Aleestis, from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by force, tho' pale and faint Mine, as whom wash'd from spot of child bed taint Purification in the' old Law...

...alluùes to this play of his favorite author in the opening lines of the sonnet on his deceased wife : " Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to...grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Ransomed from death by force, though pale and faint." The young student, however, is not to suppose...

...honoured her memory with what Johnson (out upon him !) calls a poor sonnet ; it is the one beginning Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis from the grave ; which, in its solemn and tender strain of feeling and modulated harmony, reminds us of Dante. He...