 Impostor ! do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous With her abundance : she, good cateress, Means her provision only to the good, That live according to her sober laws, And holy dictate of spare temperance.  John Milton and His Times: An Historical Novel - Page 104de Max Ring - 1868 - 308 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | John Milton - 1870 - 436 pages
...hate when Vice can bolt her arguments, 760 And Virtue has no tongue to check her pride : Impostor, do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would...good cateress, Means her provision only to the good, 765 That live according to her sober laws And holy dictate of spare Temperance : If every just man... | |
 | John Milton - 1871 - 530 pages
...garb. I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride. Impostor, do not charge most innocent nature, As if she would...Had but a moderate and beseeming share Of that which lewdly-pamper'd luxury Now heaps upon some few with vast excess, Nature's full blessings would be well... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...glistering guardian, if need were, To keep my life and honor unassailed. THE LADY TO COMUS. IMPOSTOH, lewdly pampered luxury Now heaps upon some few with vast excess, Nature's full blessings would be well... | |
 | John Milton - 1871 - 312 pages
...hate when Vice can bolt her arguments, 760 And Virtue has no tongue to cheek her pride. Impostor ! do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would...good cateress, Means her provision only to the good, 765 That live according to her sober laws And holy dictate of spare Temperance. If every just man that... | |
 | John Milton - 1871 - 92 pages
...I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, 760 And virtue has no tongue to check her pride. Impostor, do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would...good cateress, Means her provision only to the good, 765 That live according to her sober laws, And holy dictate of spare temperance : If every just man,... | |
 | 1909 - 502 pages
...Think what, and be advised ; you are but young yet. Lady. I had not thought to have unlocked my lips In this unhallowed air, but that this Juggler Would...spare Temperance. If every just man that now pines • ith want Had but a moderate and beseeming share Of that which lewdly-pampered Luxury Now heaps... | |
 | Arthur S. P. Woodhouse, Douglas Bush - 1970 - 434 pages
...635-6 nn. When the Lady rebuts Comus' inferences from nature's prodigality by asserting that nature 'Means her provision only to the good / That live according to her sober laws' (764-5), she is appealing to a long tradition, Platonic, Stoic, and Christian. That tradition is outlined... | |
 | William Bridges Hunter (Jr.) - 1978 - 226 pages
...: Comus attacks the "pet of temperance," while the Lady insists that Nature is a "good cateres" who "means her provision only to the good / That live...sober laws, / And holy dictate of spare Temperance" (763-66). The Chorus of SA praises the hero for his abstention from wine, but Samson wonders what "avail'd... | |
 | William Bridges Hunter (Jr.) - 1986 - 260 pages
...mutual and partak'n bliss, (739-41) Mask, A 73 but the Lady responds, as does Ecclesiasticus, Nature Means her provision only to the good That live according...her sober laws And holy dictate of spare temperance. (765-67) Finally, the often-decried alteration of the concluding words of 1 Corinthians 13 which Milton... | |
 | Margaret W. Ferguson, Maureen Quilligan, Nancy Vickers - 1986 - 464 pages
...so in language that would have been unthinkable, and indeed downright dangerous, in a royal masque: If every just man that now pines with want Had but a moderate and beseeming share Ofthat which lewdly-pampered Luxury Now heaps upon some few with vast excess, Nature's full blessings... | |
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