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" There is a gentle Nymph not far from hence, That with moist curb sways the smooth Severn stream : Sabrina is her name, a virgin pure ; Whilom she was the daughter of Locrine, That had the sceptre from his father Brute. She, guiltless damsel, flying the... "
The American Review: A Whig Journal of Politics, Literature, Art, and Science - Page 85
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The Poetical Works of John Milton with a Life of the Author: Preliminary ...

John Milton, Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 708 pages
...There is a gentle nymph not far from hence, That with moist curb sways the smooth Severn stream, 825 Sabrina is her name, a virgin pure ; Whilom she was...the mad pursuit Of her enraged stepdame Guendolen, 830 Commended her fair innocence to the flood, That staid her flight with his cross-flowing course....
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Age of Chivalry: Or, Legends of King Arthur

Thomas Bulfinch - Arthurian romances - 1865 - 450 pages
...slight variation, thus : — " There is a gentle nymph not far from henee, That with moist curb sways the smooth Severn stream ; Sabrina is her name, a virgin pure : Whilom she was the daughter of I,oerinc, That had the seeptre from his father, Brute. She, guiltless damsel, flying the mad pursuit...
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Foliorum silvula, selections for translation into Latin and Greek verse, by ...

Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 pages
...•L that with moist curb sways the smooth Severnstream, Sabrina is her name, a virgin pure. Whilome she was the daughter of Locrine, that had the sceptre...guiltless damsel, flying the mad pursuit of her enraged stepdatne Guendolen, commended her fair innocence to the flood, that stayed her flight with his cross-flowing...
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The British Poets, Volume 3

1866 - 376 pages
...That with moist curb sways the smooth Severn stream, Sabrina is her name, a virgin pure ; « Whilome she was the daughter of Locrine, That had the sceptre from his father Brute. a16 recerfd] Ov. Metam. xiv. 800. ' Qmverm verbero mrga.' This Sandys translates, ' her wand reverst.'...
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The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins: Complete in ...

English poetry - 1867 - 556 pages
...from hence, That with moist curb sways the smooth Severn stream, Sabrina is her name, a virgin purr; Whilom she was the daughter of Locrine, That had the...Guendolen, Commended her fair innocence to the flood, That staid her lïight with his сгояв-tíowing course. The water nymphs, that in the bottom played,...
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Studies of Shakspere

Charles Knight - 1868 - 570 pages
...hence, That with moist curb sways the smooth Severn stream, Sabrina is her name, a virgin pure ; Whilome she was the daughter of Locrine, That had the sceptre...damsel, flying the mad pursuit Of her enraged stepdame, Gucndolen, Commended her fair innocence to the flood, That stay'd her flight with his cross-flowing...
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English poems, ed. with life, intr. and selected notes by R.C. Browne, Volume 1

John Milton - 1870 - 436 pages
...hence, That with moist curb sways the smooth Severn stream, Sabrina is her name, a virgin pure, 826 Whilom she was the daughter of Locrine, That had the...the mad pursuit Of her enraged stepdame Guendolen, 830 Commended her fair innocence to the flood That stay'd her flight with his cross-flowing course....
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Poems [a selection] ed. with life and notes by J.M. Ross

John Milton - 1871 - 312 pages
...There is a gentle nymph not far from hence, That with moist curb sways the smooth Severn stream ; 825 Sabrina is her name, a virgin pure ; Whilom she was...the mad pursuit Of her enraged stepdame Guendolen, 830 Commended her fair innocence to the flood That stay'd her flight with his cross-flowing course....
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Milton. Comus, Lycidas, L'allegro, Il penseroso, and selected ..., Issue 363

John Milton - 1871 - 92 pages
...That with moist curb sways the smooth Severn stream, Sabrina is her name, a virgin pure ; 826 Whilome she was the daughter of Locrine, That had the sceptre...the mad pursuit Of her enraged stepdame Guendolen, 830 Commended her fair innocence to the flood, That stay'd her flight with his cross-flowing course....
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Traditions, Superstitions, and Folklore, (chiefly Lancashire and the North ...

Charles Hardwick - England - 1872 - 338 pages
...in another language, Sabrina." Milton, speaking of Sabrina as the goddess of the river, styles her " the daughter of Locrine, that had the sceptre from his father Brute." As the mythical or rather non-historical character of Brute and his progeny is now almost universally...
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