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Page xxvi
... Lawes , the musician . Among Lawes's pupils were the family of the Earl of Bridgewater , son - in - law of the Countess of Derby , in whose honour Arcades was written . In July 1631 the Earl of Bridgewater was made Lord - Lieutenant of ...
... Lawes , the musician . Among Lawes's pupils were the family of the Earl of Bridgewater , son - in - law of the Countess of Derby , in whose honour Arcades was written . In July 1631 the Earl of Bridgewater was made Lord - Lieutenant of ...
Page xxvii
... Lawes's friends evidently appreciated it . Some were present in the Hall at Ludlow Castle on that September evening ; others , perhaps , heard the songs afterwards sung by Lawes himself or his pupils . They realised that there was in ...
... Lawes's friends evidently appreciated it . Some were present in the Hall at Ludlow Castle on that September evening ; others , perhaps , heard the songs afterwards sung by Lawes himself or his pupils . They realised that there was in ...
Page xxviii
... Lawes , 1637 , and those of Milton , 1645 and 1673. Milton's original draft of the poem is among the MSS.2 at Cambridge ... Lawes's hand- writing , also survives . All the differences between these five authorities - on the whole , not ...
... Lawes , 1637 , and those of Milton , 1645 and 1673. Milton's original draft of the poem is among the MSS.2 at Cambridge ... Lawes's hand- writing , also survives . All the differences between these five authorities - on the whole , not ...
Page xxxviii
... festive note . The philosophic strain was dropped : the poet of L'Allegro reasserted himself ; and Comus came to an end with Lawes's music ringing through the Hall . The stage - history of Comus is very slight . xxxviii INTRODUCTION .
... festive note . The philosophic strain was dropped : the poet of L'Allegro reasserted himself ; and Comus came to an end with Lawes's music ringing through the Hall . The stage - history of Comus is very slight . xxxviii INTRODUCTION .
Page 38
... Love Virtue : she alone is free ; She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime ; Or if Virtue feeble were , Heaven itself would stoop to her . 1000 ΙΟΙΟ 1020 NOTES . LAWES'S DEDICATION OF THE FIRST EDITION OF COMUS 38 COMUS .
... Love Virtue : she alone is free ; She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime ; Or if Virtue feeble were , Heaven itself would stoop to her . 1000 ΙΟΙΟ 1020 NOTES . LAWES'S DEDICATION OF THE FIRST EDITION OF COMUS 38 COMUS .
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Adonis Æneid allusion beautiful Ben Jonson blank verse called Cambridge character charm chastity Circe classical Comus dance daughter dramatic Earl of Bridgewater earth Echo Elder Brother Elizabethan enchanted English epithet Estrildis evil eyes Faerie Queene fair favourite genius Germ goddess gods hath Heaven hence Henry Wotton Homer honour Il Penseroso influence Italy Jonson King L'Allegro Lady Latin Lawes's legend Locrine Lord Lord Brackley Ludlow Castle Lycidas lyric Mark Pattison Masque Masson metaphor Midsummer-Night's Dream Milton nature night noun nymph Odyssey original Paradise Lost passage pastoral Penseroso perhaps phrase piece pleasure poem poet poetic poetry probably Puritanism reference rhyme rhythm river Sabrina Sabrina fair Samson Agonistes says scene sense Shakespeare shepherd Sir Henry song Sonnet soul Spenser Spirit stage-direction story sweet syllable Tempest Tennyson thou thought Thyrsis verb virgin Virtue wood word writers youth