 | John Milton - 2003 - 1084 ページ
...is not) 370 Could stir the constant mood of her calm thoughts, And put them into misbecoming plight. Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though Sun and Moon 334. disinherit Chaos: disposses Chaos. Cf. PL 349. innumerous: innumerable. Cf. PL VII, I, 10 and... | |
 | J. William Jones - 2004 - 484 ページ
...gorge to the far light, " without feeling the truth of the almost inspired lines of the poet, that "Virtue could see to do what Virtue would, By her...light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. " Whither now, O world-renowned hero! will you direct your footsteps? Will you carry to foreign courts... | |
 | Douglas Trevor - 2004 - 288 ページ
...melancholic, they do augment the praise of learned seclusion: "Wisdom's self," the Eldest Brother comments, "Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, / Where with...She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings" (374-377). The Second Brother agrees, noting that it is in the "pensive secrecy of desert cell" that... | |
 | John Palmer (Jun.) - 2005 - 208 ページ
...pierc'd with so great agony, When such I see, that all for pity I could die. SPENSER. Virtue would see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea-sunk. MILTON. WE now recur to Emma, who so suddenly disappeared from the Isle of Wight. She had... | |
 | John Milton - 2006 - 66 ページ
...and noise Could stir the constant mood of her calm thoughts, And put them into misbecoming plight. Virtue could see to do what Virtue would By her own...wings, That, in the various bustle of resort, Were all to-ruffled, and sometimes impaired. He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i' the centre,... | |
 | Wendy Olmsted - 2008 - 313 ページ
...to trace Satan's loss of society with himself in Book IV of Paradise Lost. A Mask (Comus) comments, And wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude,...wings That in the various bustle of resort Were all to ruffl'd, and somtimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast. May sit i'th' center,... | |
 | James Dougal Fleming - 2008 - 228 ページ
...offers a counter-image of her as her own lantern. "Vertue could see to do what vertue would," he says, "by her own radiant light, though Sun and Moon / Were in the flat Sea sunk" (373-375). That watery apocalypse leads into an image of virtuous radiance as a contrast (classically... | |
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Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within... 
