 | George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 524 pages
...ever loved, he addressed the following sonnet, rather a dull one in its way, after her death : — Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to...her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by force, tho' pale and faint. Mine> as whom wash'd from spot of child-bed taint Purification in the old law... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 1042 pages
...ever loved, he addressed the following sonnet, rather a dull one in its way, after her death : — Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to...her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by force, tho' pale and faint. Minei as whom wash'd from spot of child-bed taint Purification in the old law... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...through the world's vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide. XXIII. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. METHOUGHT I saw my late espoused saint Brought to...her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by force, tho' pale and faint. Mine, as whom wash'd from spot of child-bed Purification in the old Law did save,... | |
 | University of Oxford - 1833 - 146 pages
...[Dean Ireland's Scholarship, 1841.] III. For Latin Hexameters. " Terra; Motus." For Latin Elegiacs. Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to...pale and faint. Mine, as whom wash'd from spot of child-bed taint Purification in the old law did save, And such, as yet once more I trust to have Full... | |
 | Joseph Ivimey - 1833 - 316 pages
...this melancholy event, were vented in the following most touching Sonnet : — ON HIE DECEASED WIFE. " Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to...Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint : * Simmona's Life of MILTON, note, p. 456. Mine, as whom washed from spot of child-bed taint Purification... | |
 | Alexander Dyce - 1833 - 240 pages
...the world's vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide. JOHN MILTON. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE. METHOUGHT I saw my late espoused saint Brought to...grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescu'd from Death by force, though pale and faint. Mine, as whom wash'd from spot of child-bed taint... | |
 | Joseph Ivimey - 1833 - 320 pages
...this melancholy event, were vented in the following most touching Sonnet : — OK HIS DECEASED WIFE. " Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to...grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Re scued from death by force, though pale and faint : * Simmons's Life of MILTON, note, p. 456. Mine,... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...through the world's vain mask, Content though blind, had I no better guide, XVIII, On his deceased Wife. METHOUGHT I saw my late espoused saint Brought to...pale and faint. Mine, as whom wash'd from spot of child-bed taint Purification in the old law did save, And such, as yet once more I trust to have Full... | |
 | 1836 - 558 pages
...refrains. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE.' MF.THODGHT I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Aleestis, from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by force, tho' pale and faint Mine, as whom wash'd from spot of child bed taint Purification in the' old Law... | |
 | Theodore Dwight Woolsey - 1837 - 288 pages
...alluùes to this play of his favorite author in the opening lines of the sonnet on his deceased wife : " Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to...grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Ransomed from death by force, though pale and faint." The young student, however, is not to suppose... | |
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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, pure as her mind. Her face was... 
