| English literature - 1818 - 638 pages
...That fair field Of Knna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis Was gather'd." We shall only add another extract,...extinction of the planetary system is too like a passage in Oesian to be altogether accidental. * He is apostro315 phizing the stars, after alluding to the discoveries... | |
| John Milton - Fall of man - 1820 - 342 pages
...leaves, while universal Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance Led on th' eternal spring. Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis 270 Was gather'd, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her thro' the world ; nor that sweet grove... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...leave*,, while universal Pan, Knit with the Graces aud the Hours in dance, Led on the eternal Spring. Not Dis Was gather'd, wliich cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world j nor that sweet grove... | |
| John Milton - Bible - 1821 - 226 pages
...leaves, while universal Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance, Led on the eternal Spring. Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis Was gather'd, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world ; nor that sweet grove... | |
| British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 396 pages
...scarcely be found in the Greek poetry. P. 155, 1. 25. She once amid those golden meadows play'd. • not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis Was gather'd ; which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world. Paradise Lust, bv... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1896 - 616 pages
...Heaven, and Earth successively. The subject is the subjugation of Dis by Cupid, and its chief scene that fair field of Enna, ' where Proserpine, gathering flowers, Herself, a fairer flower, by gloomy Dits Was gathered.' The commencement is almost comic. The Lord of Erebus, the high sheriff of Shadows... | |
| British essayists - 1823 - 806 pages
...out a maying when she met with that fatal adventure to which Milton alludes when he mentions — — That fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine, gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis Was gather'd. — t. L. iv. 268. Since I am got into quotations, I shall conclude this head with... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...while universal Pan, Knit with the Graces, and the hours, in dance, Led on th' eternal spring. Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dia 270 Was gdther'd ; which cost Ceres alt that pain To seek her thro' the world ; nor that sweet... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 646 pages
...produced something new, without any change for the worse. Richardson. Led on th' eternal spring. Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flow'r by gloomy Dis . . .270 Was gather'd, which .cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the... | |
| 1825 - 648 pages
...number of beautifully sounding names of places, winds, &c. as in the following example : — ' Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Du Was gather'«!,' be. iic. 4ьс. " This aggregation of melodious names, is so characteristic of... | |
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