...The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly sp^ll Of every star that Heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew ; Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain. These pleasures, Melancholy, give, And I with thee will choose to live. XV. [Part of an entertainment...

...The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that Heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew ; Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain. These pleasures, Melancholy, give, And I with thee will choose to live. MILTON. 168 ODE ON THE NATIVITY....

...hairy gown and mossy cell, "Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that Heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew ; Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain." Had Milton only written these two short poems, I should have been disposed to look upon him not only...

...resignation, their hermitage and their crust ; and long to be like them, and play at loneliness. " And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful...experience do attain To something like prophetic strain." So, who does not love Goldsmith's Edwin and Angelina, and tha gentle line with which it sets out 7...

...The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew; Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain. This kind of wisdom is certainly special, but it doesn't set the artist completely apart from the community,...

...hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Off every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain." It is not given to man of himself to prophesy, and when we contrast the youthful dream to the actual...

...massy proof. And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim, religious light. (1. 155 — 160) 19 1 1) 6 He sent for lancewood to make the thills;...white-wood, that cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron These pleasures Melancholy give, And I with thee will choose to live. (1. 168-176) AWP; FiP; GTBS;...

...conclusion, the poet-prophet: Where 1 may sit and rightly spell Of every Star that Heav'n doth shew, And every Herb that sips the dew; Till old experience do attain To something like Prophetic strain. These pleasures Melancholy give, And I with thee will choose to live. (lines 170-6) The presence of...

...The Hairy Gown and Mossy Cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every Star that Heav'n doth shew, And every Herb that sips the dew; Till old experience do attain To something like Prophetic strain. [11. 167-74] Thus, in the conclusion of "II Penseroso," pagan philosophy and Christian asceticism,...

...The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain. lohn Milton These pleasures, Melancholy, give, Seventeenth century And I With thee Will choOSC tO live....