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...off. Bong. Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander s ers mounnth well ; Canst thou not tell me of a gentle pair That likest thy Narcissus are J 0, if thou have...

...Song. Sweet Echo, sweetest nympli, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's inargent affectionate nature of Jaffier ; and the harsh unnatural cruelty of Priuli serres as thcc her sad song mourneth well ; Canst thou not tell me of a gentle pair That likest thy Narcissus...

...plaintive song employ. Milton, who had the temperament of a Greek, naturally adopted the Greek view :— Where the love-lorn nightingale Nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well. ' Cornus,' 23*. And Shakespeare, who was certainly not a Greek, felt himself forced to swim with the...

...COMUS. 191 THE LADY'S SONG IN " COMUS." Sweet Eeho, sweetest nymph, that liv'st nnseen Within thy aery shell, By slow Meander's margent green, And in the...love-lorn nightingale Nightly to thee her sad song monrneth well ; Canst thon not tell me of a gentle pair That likest thy Nareissns1 are ? O, if thon...

...Nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung." MILTON. " And in the violet-embroidered vale. Where the lovelorn Nightingale Nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well." MILTON. " 0 Nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still, Thou...

...livest unseen Within thy aery shell, By slow Meander's margcnt green, And in the violet-embroidcr'd vale, Where the love-lorn nightingale Nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well ; Canst thou not tell me of a gentle pair That likest thy Narcissus are ? Oh, if thou have Hid them...

...Echo. Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph, that livest unseen Within thy aery shell, By slow Meander's margen t green, And in the violet-embroider'd vale, Where the love-lorn nightingale Nightly to thec her sad song mourneth well ; Canst thou not tell me of a gentle pair That likest thy Narcissus...

...livest unseen 230 Within thy aery shell, By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale Where the love-lorn nightingale Nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well : ' 235 219. A glistering gultrdian.] any slow, winding stream. The An allusion to Ps. xci. 11: 'He...

...It is a sort of stiff and constrained chant, destitute of melody, and, except in the passage — " Where the love-lorn nightingale Nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well," where there is a glimmering of feeling at the words " sad song," — it is equally destitute of expression....