...adjudge the prize Of wit, or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear, In saffron robe, with taper clear, And...pageantry ; Such sights as youthful poets dream, On summer eve by haunted stream. — L'ALLEGRO. If any utilitarian require further reason for our particularity...

...while hoth contend To win her grace, whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron rohe, with taper clear, And Pomp, and Feast, and Revelry,...Such sights as youthful poets dream, On summer eves hy haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned soek he on, Or sweetest Shakespear,...

...pageantry; Such sights as youthful poets dream, On summer eves by haunted stream, Then to the well trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakspeare, Fancy's child. Warble his native wood notes wild. And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse...

...or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commendThere let Hymen oft appear In. sain-on robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry,...pageantry ; Such sights as youthful poets dream, On summer eve, by haunted stream, Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest...

...judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe with taper clear, And pomp...Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild. YACINTH. Hyacinthus. Class 6, H ANDIUA. Order: MONOGYNIA. The h cinth, so celebrated in the songs of...

...wit, or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear 125 In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast,...youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. 130 Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's...

...Villein tilled the hedgeless hides• And Norman William made the Book of Doom. Ralph the Red-handed. And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask and antique...pageantry ; Such sights as youthful poets dream, On summer eve, by haunted stream. Hilton, OUR story again shifts to the pleasant palace of Oxford, at that period...

...and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry; Such sights as youthful poet» dream On summer evee n, through the native white Soft-shooting, o'er the...morning-dew, Breathing delight ; and, under flowing jet, ; 8uch as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long...

...judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And...pageantry,— Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer-eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon," &c. So, in ' II Penseroso,' there...

...the distinction between Ben Jonson's learned taste, and Shakspeare's unhampered riot of intellect : " Then to the well-trod Stage anon, If Jonson's learned...Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild."* It by no means follows that his mind was strange to high aspirations. These are the mocking hopes of...