Dame, as Waller has translated it, and is represented by Horace as the goddess who delights in laughter. Milton, in a joyous assembly of imaginary persons, has given us a very poetical figure of laughter. His whole band of mirth is so finely described,... The Spectator - Página 286por Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1810Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Raymond Dexter Havens - 1922 - 766 páginas
...as may lift us to the skies, And set all heaven before our eyes.3 Later he wrote in the Spectator: "Milton, in a joyous assembly of imaginary persons,...described, that I shall set down the passage at length." 4 The way in which Allegro is here referred to seems to indicate that the poem was not well known,... | |
| 1924 - 296 páginas
...Ebon shades, and low-brow'd Rocks, As ragged as thy Locks, In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell. ic But come thou Goddess fair and free, In Heav'n yclep'd...Euphrosyne, And by men, heart-easing Mirth, Whom lovely Fenus at a birth With two sister Graces more To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore : Or whether (as some sager... | |
| John Milton - 1925 - 442 páginas
...under Ebon shades, and low-brow'd Rocks, As ragged as thy Locks, In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell. But come thou Goddess fair and free, In Heav'n yclep'd Euphrosyne, And by men, heart-easing Mirth, \Vhom lovely Venus at a birth With two sister Graces more To Ivy-crowned Bacchus bore ; Or whether... | |
| Richard Green Moulton - 1915 - 550 páginas
...under ebon shades, and low-brow 'd rocks, As ragged as thy locks, In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwelL But come thou goddess fair and free, In Heav'n yclep'd Euphrosyne, And by men, heart-easing Mirth; etc. This poem illustrates both our principles at once: the same particular meter is used for sentiments... | |
| Joseph Addison - 278 páginas
...the title of Philomydes " the laughter-loving dame," as Waller has translated it, and is represented by Horace as the goddess who delights in laughter,...at length: But come, thou goddess fair and free, In heaven yclep'd Euphrosyne, And by men, heart-easing mirth, Whom lovely Venus at a birth With two sister... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1961 - 278 páginas
...the title of Philomydes "the laughter-loving dame," as Waller has translated it, and is represented by Horace as the goddess who delights in laughter....I shall set down the passage at length: But come, them goddess fair and free, In heaven yclep'd Euphrosyne, And by men, heart-easing mirth, Whom lovely... | |
| John Milton - 1891 - 232 páginas
..."Laughter and Ridicule; Difference between Comedy and Burlesque," Spectator 249. "Milton, "he says, "in a joyous assembly of imaginary persons, has given...described that I shall set down the passage at length ; " and then follow the lines. It is to Addison that we owe one of the earliest detailed criticisms... | |
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