 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 432 páginas
...gives such voluptuous dignity and touching purity to Milton's delineation of the female character. " Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint.... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1847 - 474 páginas
...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... | |
 | William Howitt - 1847 - 524 páginas
...character of this excellent woman, he has left us that beautiful testimony, his twenty-second sonnet : Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint.... | |
 | 1847 - 482 páginas
...endeavoured to make him appear, he would never have written as he did, — ON BI8 DECEASED WIFE. " Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis, from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint.... | |
 | 1847 - 488 páginas
...endeavoured to make him appear, he would never have written as he did, — ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. " Methoaght I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis, from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 páginas
...and he consecrated to her memory one of hi* simple, but solemn and touching sonnets :— Mcthought be secret) ought to be done with greater gravity. And presenting unto hi Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint.... | |
 | Charles Ollier - 1848 - 270 páginas
...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 páginas
...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 behind, is our time lost part Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint.... | |
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 272 páginas
...affection for his partner who peruses the following touching sonnet, inscribed ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. Methought I saw my late espoused saint, Brought to me, like Alcestis from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad hushaud gave, Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint:... | |
 | Edwin Owen Jones - 1853 - 258 páginas
...to the memory of his deceased wife, which affords an example of such unalterable attachme nt : — " Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis, from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Bescued from death by force, though pale and faint.... | |
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Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by force though pale and faint. 
