Or ounce, or tiger, hog, or bearded goat, All other parts remaining as they were ; And they (so perfect is their misery) Not once perceive their foul disfigurement, But boast themselves more comely than before, And all their friends and native home forget,... Miltoni Comus - Page 12by John Milton - 1863 - 121 pagesFull view - About this book
| Leigh Hunt - 1823 - 424 pages
...form,— . •• >' '•••• And they— scvperfect is their misery, -: •• •.: -f-'.-w Not once .perceive their foul disfigurement! .•;.-., But boast themselves more comely than before, ( _ ,,'-.•.., ' " And all their/riends and native home forget." Neither can less than the virtue... | |
| British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...ounce, or tiger, hog, or bearded goat, All other parts remaining as they were ; And they, so perfect is their misery, Not once perceive their foul disfigurement,...favour'd of high Jove, Chances to pass through this adventurous glade, Swift as the sparkle of a glancing star I shoot from heaven, to give him safe convoy,... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 414 pages
...Itoaat themielvft more comely than before, And att their fricnii and native home And they, so perfect is their misery, Not once perceive their foul disfigurement,...native home forget, To roll with pleasure in a sensual stye. Therefore when any favour'd of high Jove Chances to pass through this advent'rous glade, 75 This... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...as they were ; And they, so perfect is their misery, Not once perceive their foul disfigurement, Bat father; — much design Is seen in all their motions, all their makes; Design implies intellig wish pleasure in a sensual sty. Therefore, when any favour'd of high Jove Chances to pass through this... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...tvger, hog, or bearded goat, All other parts remaining as they were; And they, so perfect is tht'ir misery, Not once perceive their foul disfigurement, But boast themselves more comely than before, 75 And all their friends and native home forget, To roll with pleasure in a sensual sty ; * Milton... | |
| Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1824 - 324 pages
...satisfied, and not at all conscious of their forlorn situation, like the transformed followers of Comus,— Not once perceive their foul disfigurement; But boast themselves more comely than before. Methinks, such men, who have found out so short a path, have no reason to complain of the shortness... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...perfeet is their misery. Not onee pereeive their foul disfigurement. But boast themselves more eomely t's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green...domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling pla Chanees to pass through this advent'rous glade, Swift as the sparkle of a glaneing star I shoot from... | |
| Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - 398 pages
...self-degraded, till 'unmoulding reason's mintage,' it converts men into real brutes, while they, ' So perfect is their misery, . Not once perceive their foul disfigurement, But boast themselves more comely than before." " This is charming language," said Tremaine, " and accounts too well for much of the wickedness that... | |
| Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - 396 pages
...self-degraded, till 'unmoulding reason's mintage,' it converts men into real brutes, while they, ' So perfect is their misery, Not once perceive their foul disfigurement, But boast themselves more comely than before." " This is charming language," said Tremaine, " and accounts too well for much of the wickedness that... | |
| Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - 398 pages
...': .1 *' This is charming language," said Tremaine, ..1. • 'So perfect is their misery, ,Not onpe perceive their foul disfigurement, " But boast themselves more comely than before." " and accounts too well for much of the wickednessthat exists, without accusing Heaven. Still, upon this... | |
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