...repair his strength, And fainting spirits uphold. § 14. Sonnel: on his deceased Wife. MILTON. MBTHOUGHT I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave, Whom Jdve's great son to her glad husband gave, [faint. Rescued from death by force, though pale and Mine,...

...not glide in with the stillness of night, and, enacting life, draw Milton's curtain t " Me thought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis,...the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gare, Rescu'd from death by force, though pale and faint. Mine, as whom, wash'd from spot of childbed...

...world's vain mask Content, though blind, had I no better guide. XXIII. ON IltS DECEASED WIFE.* METHOUOHT I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis,...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...

...gives such voluptuous dignity and touching purity to Milton's delineation of the female character. " Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave, Whom Jove's great sou to her glad husband gave. Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint. Mine, as whom wash'd...

...gives such voluptuous dignity and touching purity to Milton's delineation of the female character. " Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave, Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint. Whom Jove's great sou to her glad husband ga''e,...

...through the world's vain mask Content, though blind, had I no better guide. ©n !j(» DeceaseD JSttfe. METHOUGHT I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis, from the grave, Whom J ove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint. Mine,...

....world's vain mask Content, though blind, had I no better guide. ____ MILTON. <f>n fjis DcrcascD (Elite. METHOUGHT I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis, from the grave, Whom J ove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint. Mine,...

...thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content, though U ¡ml, had I no better guide. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE.* METHOUGHT I saw my late espoused...Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint. Vine, as whom wash'dfrom spot of child-bed taint, Purification in th' old Law did save, б And such,...

...thought might lead me 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...Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint. * This was his second wife Catharine the daughter of Captain Woodcock of Hackney, who lived with him...

...guide. On bis deeeased Wife. Aie1гюи»Ы I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Aleestis from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Reseued from death by foree, though pale and faint. Mine, as whom wash'd from spot of ehild-bed taint,...