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" Comus, grotesque monsters, half bestial, half human, dropping with wine, bloated with gluttony, and reeling in obscene dances. Amidst these... "
Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature - Page 433
edited by - 1844
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John Milton

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1877 - 112 pages
...could be compared to nothing so fitly as to the rabble of Comus, grotesque monsters, half bestial, half human, dropping with wine, bloated with gluttony, and reeling in obscene dances. Amidst these that fair Muse was placed, like the chaste lady of the Masque, lofty, spotless, and serene, to be chattered...
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Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays and Poems, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English - 1880 - 844 pages
...human, dropping with wine, bloated with gluttony, and reeling in obscene dances. Amidst these that fair Muse was placed, like the chaste lady of the Masque, lofty, spotless, and serene, to be chattered at, and pointed at, and grinned at, by the whole rout of Satyrs and Goblins. If ever despondency...
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Miscellaneous Works of Lord Macaulay: Critical and historical essays

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 640 pages
...could be compared to nothing so fitly as to the rabble of Comus, grotesque monsters, half bestial, half human, dropping with wine, bloated with gluttony, and reeling in obscene dances. Amidst these that fair Muse was placed, like the chaste lady of the Masque, lofty, spotless, and serene, to be chattered...
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A handbook of English dictation

English dictation - 1881 - 156 pages
...could be compared to nothing so fitly as to the rabble of Comus ; grotesque monsters, half bestial, half human, dropping with wine, bloated with gluttony,...chatted at and pointed at and grinned at by the whole rout of Satyrs and Goblins. If ever despondency and asperity could be excused in any man, they might...
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The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great ...

English essays - 1881 - 578 pages
...could be compared to nothing so fitly as to the rabble of Comus, grotesque monsters, half bestial, o superiority bnt chattered at, and pointed at, and grinned at by the whole rabble of satyrs and goblins. If ever despondency...
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Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays and Poems, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1882 - 878 pages
...could be compared to nothing so fitly as to the rabble of Comus, grotesque monsters, half bestial, half human, dropping with wine, bloated with gluttony, and reeling in obscene dances. Amidst these that fair Muse was placed, like the chaste lady of the Masque, lofty, spotless, and serene, to be chattered...
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The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language: A Complete ..., Volume 2

John Ogilvie - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1883 - 714 pages
...let drops fall; to drip; to discharge itself in drops. It was a loathsome herd, . . . half bestial, half human, dropping with wine, bloated with gluttony, and reeling in obscene dances. Macaulay. DROPAX 104 DROUTH V The heavens also dropped at the presence of God Ps. lnviii. 7. 3. To...
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Macaulay's Milton, ed. to illustrate the laws of rhetoric and composition by ...

Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays], Milton.), Alexander Mackie - English language - 1884 - 216 pages
...could be compared to nothing so fitly as to the rabble of Comus, grotesque monsters, half bestial, half human, dropping with wine, bloated with gluttony,...obscene dances. Amidst these his muse was placed, 25 like the chaste lady of the masque, lofty, spotless, and serene — to be chattered at, and pointed...
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Lord Macaulay's Essays and Lays of Ancient Rome

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1885 - 916 pages
...could be compared to nothing so fitly as to the rabble of Comus, grotesque monsters, half bestial, nch Revolution. Bat it is not very easy to draw the line Pof distinction between that fair Muse was placed, like the chaste lady of the Masque, lofty, spotless, and serene, to be chattered...
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The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great ...

Robert Cochrane - Authors, English - 1887 - 572 pages
...could be compared to nothing so fitly as to the rabble of Comus, grotesque monsters, half bestial, t ; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast ; In...to prefer ; Born but to die, and reasoning but to e tlie chaste lady of the masque, lofty, spotless, and serene — to be chattered at, and pointed at,...
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