 Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint. Mine, as whom washed from spot of child-bed taint Purification in the old law did save, And such, as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white,...  Specimens of the British Poets - Page 259by Thomas Campbell - 1844 - 716 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1860 - 574 pages
...burden loads the clay And, when God sends a chccffiil hour, refrains. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE.* METHOUOHT I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis,...the grave. Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband s^<c, Rescued from death by force, tho' pale and faint. Mine, as whom wash'd from spot of child-bed... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - Love poetry - 1861 - 526 pages
...will find it in one only part, Now pierced by Love's immedicable dart. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis,...death by force, though pale and faint Mine, as whom, washed from spot of child-bed taint, Purification in the old Law did save, And such, as yet once more... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - Love poetry - 1861 - 552 pages
...will find it in one only part. Now pierced by Love's immedicable dart. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis,...death by force, though pale and faint Mine, as whom, washed from spot of child-bed taint, Purification in the old Law did save, And such, as yet once more... | |
 | John Milton - Fall of man - 1861 - 534 pages
...[mask, This thought might lead me through the world's vain XXIII. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. METHOTTGHT I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis,...grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Eescued from death by force, though pale and faint. Mine, as whom, wash'd from spot of child-bed taint,... | |
 | John Milton, James Montgomery - 1861 - 548 pages
...side, [mask, This thought might lead me through the world's vain XXIII. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. METHOUGHT I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis,...grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Eescued from death by force, though pale and faint. Mine, as whom, wash'd from spot of child-bed taint,... | |
 | John Milton - 1862 - 568 pages
...Content, though blind, had I no better guide. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE.* METHOUGHT I saw my late espous'd saint Brought to me, like Alcestis, from the grave,...her glad husband gave. Rescued from death by force, thouglrpale and faint * This was his second wife, Catharine, the daughter of Captain Woodcock of Hackney,... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 326 pages
...Augean stable, by the might Of their own helper have been swept away. WOBDSWOBTH. ALCESTIS. METHOUGHT I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alcestis...Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint. MILTON. ••IMITHE PILLARS OF HERCULES. LAST with wide arms the solid earth he tears, Piles rock... | |
 | John Milton - 1864 - 584 pages
...the world's vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. MF.TIIOUGHT I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis,...death by force, though pale and faint. Mine, as whom washed from spot of child-bed taint Purification hi the old law did save, And such, as yet once more... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 692 pages
...change worth waiting. j. MILTON 468 ON HIS DECEASED WIFE TV /TETHOUGHT I saw my late-espoused saint iVi. brought to me like Alcestis from the grave, whom Jove's...death by force, though pale and faint. Mine, as whom washed from spot of child-bed taint purification in the Old Law did save, and such, as yet once more... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 708 pages
...the world's vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. METHOUGHT I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis,...pale and faint. Mine, as whom wash'd from spot of cnild-bed taint 5 Purification in the old Law did save, And such, as yet once more I trust to have... | |
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