Here held his pomp, and trail'd the pall While Beauty's glance adjudg'd the prize, That, fraught with drops of precious cure. He rolls his eyes, that witness huge dismay. That witness'd huge affliction and dismay. Smit with the love of the laconic boot. Where no crude surfeit, or intemperate joys Where no crude surfeit reigns. Of monumental oak. Of pine, or monumental oak. New Year 1788, 39-44. Allegro, 119-28. Penseroso, 97-8. King's Birthday 1790, 21. Comus, 912-13. P. L. i. 56-7. Ib. 107. Oxford Ale, 9-10. Ib. 30. Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles, That love to live within the one-curl'd Scratch, With fun, and all the family of smiles. Quips, and Cranks, and wanton Wiles, DICTION Grizzle Wig, 18-20. Allegro, 27-30. Adamantine (Marriage of King, 22, Ode for Music, 36, New Year 1786, 37); cf. P. L. i. 48, ii. 646, etc. (nine times more, including "adamant" and "adamantean"). Warton in two instances and Milton in four apply the word to arms. Eden's amaranthine grove (Marriage of King, 58, and cf. Approach of Summer, 45, and New Year 1786, 7); cf. P. L. xi. 78, iii. 352. In mantle dank (Complaint of Cherwell, 42); cf. Comus, 891, P. L. ix. 179, etc. The dimply flood (Triumph of Isis, 15); cf. Comus, 119. Flaunting ivy (Pleasures of Melancholy, 36); cf. Comus, 545. Ivy's gadding spray (Inscription in a Hermitage, 24); cf. Lycidas, 40. Listed plain (Newmarket, 70); cf. Samson, 1087. Morning's twilight-tinctur'd beam (The Hamlet, 5); cf. P. L. v. 285. Shapes... trick'd by Fancy's pen (Vale-Royal Abbey, 82); cf. Penseroso, 123, Lycidas, 170. Vi'let-woven couch (Pleasures of Melancholy, 189); cf. Comus, 233, Nativity, 187. COWPER When evening in her sober vest Drew the grey curtain of the fading west. Where covert guile and artifice abound. These are thy glorious works, thou Source of good, They are thy witnesses, who speak thy power Charity, 262-3. P. L. iv. 598-9. Ib. 285. Retirement, 87-92. Hope, 742-50. And goodness infinite. [Of created works as revealing God.] Task, v. 853-4. Almighty! thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair: thyself how wondrous then! To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine. Delights unfelt before. When piping winds shall soon arise. A massy slab, in fashion square or round. In circuit, undetermined square or round. In the cushion fixed: If cushion might be called what harder seemed. The other Shape, If shape it might be call'd that shape had none. P. L. v. 153-9. Retirement, 360. Mrs. Throckmorton's Bullfinch, 17. Task, i. 21. P. L. ii. 1047-8. Ib. i. 54-5. P. L. ii. 666-7; cf. i. 227-8. (Similar parenthetical repetitions occur in The Task, i. 602-3, ii. 717, Bars and bolts Grew rusty by disuse, and massy gates Of massy iron or solid rock with ease As one who, long in thickets and in brakes Entangled, winds now this way and now that... And sore discomfited, from slough to slough If chance at length he finds a greensward smooth As one who, long in populous city pent, Airs, vernal airs, Breathing the smell of field. Overlaid with clear translucent glass. The voluble and restless earth. This less volubil Earth. Task, ii. 745-7. P. L. ii. 877-9. Ib. iii. 1-10. Ib. v. 832-3. P. L. ix. 445-53. Ib. iii. 443. Ib. iii. 485. Ib. iii. 490. Ib. iii. 605-6. P. L. vii. 21. Ib. iv. 482-4. By which he reigns; next him, high arbiter, Chance governs all. P. L. ii. 907-10. (Cf. P. L. ii. 960-67, where Discord is mentioned in connection with Chaos.) Arrowy sleet. Ib. v. 140. Sharp sleet of arrowy showers. P. R. iii. 324. (But cf. Gray's Fatal Sisters, 3, "Iron-sleet of arrowy shower.") [The effect of the fall of man upon the animals, as described in The Task, vi. 368-83, was probably suggested by Paradise Lost, x. 710-14, xi. 182–90.] Fixed motionless, and petrified with dread. Sheer o'er the craggy barrier. Sheer o'er the chariot front. Sheer o'er the crystal battlements. The looms of Ormus, and the mines of Ind. The wealth of Ormus and of Ind. And Saba's spicy groves. Sabaean odours from the spicy shore. From yonder withered spray. O Nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray. Ib. vi. 538. Comus, 819. Ib. vi. 554. Task, vi. 806. Ib. vi. 807. To the Nightingale, 2. (The riming word is "May" in each case.) (Said by a woman to her husband in each case. Cowper has similar lines, ib. viii. 240-41, xiv. 97, Odyssey, i. 81.) Covert (as a noun, Task, i. 233, Iliad, viii. 305); cf. P. L. iii. 39, iv. 693, etc. Intestine war (Mutual Forbearance, 48); cf. P. L. vi. 259, ii. 1001. Massy (Task, i. 21, 59, ii. 746, Iliad, xiii. 620, 1007); cf. P. L. i. 285, 703, etc. Misdeems (Task, iv. 685); cf. P. L. ix. 301, P. R. i. 424. Nitrous air (Task, iii. 32); cf. P. L. iv. 815, vi. 512. Oary barks (Iliad, ii. 193, xviii. 318, Odyssey, iii. 205); cf. P. L. vii. 440. O'erleap (of barriers, Task, ii. 55, iii. 681, Table Talk, 302); cf. P. L. iv. 181, 583. Shagg'd (Iliad, xv. 378); cf. Comus, 429. Smit with (Task, v. 560); cf. P. L. iii. 29. Speculative height (Task, i. 289, Jackdaw, 13); cf. P. L. xii. 588-9, P. R. iv. 236. Tempest (as a verb, Iliad, xv. 168); cf. P. L. vii. 412. Pointed out by Cowper. Tricked with flowers (Task, vi. 992); cf. Penseroso, 123, Lycidas, 170. Unwieldy joy (Queen's Visit to London, 20); cf. P. L. iv. 345, vii. 411. Of seamonsters in the first and third cases. Well attired (of a plant, Task, vi. 168); cf. Lycidas, 146. |