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" 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 12
by John Milton - 1863 - 121 pages
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The American Whig Review, Volume 2

1845 - 732 pages
...placed him beyond the seductive allurements of that luxurious city , in which young foreigners so often Their friends and native home forget, To roll with pleasure in a sensual stye. "The precision and elegance with which, even then, he spoke the language, was the subject of...
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The Union magazine, Volume 1

1846 - 708 pages
...express resemblance of the gods) is changed Into some brutish form of wolf or bear. But they, so perfect is their misery, Not once perceive their foul disfigurement, But boast themselves more comely than before." Here the stateliness of the sentiments is relieved by the grotesque character of the imagery. Thus,...
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Lectures on Painting and Design ...: Fuzeli. Wilkie. Effect of the societies ...

Benjamin Robert Haydon - 1846 - 336 pages
...evidence of their own extravagance, they shrink from her with affected contempt and real apprehension : " Not once perceive their foul disfigurement, But boast themselves more comely than before." Fuzeli's idea of a standard form was Greek and Phidian, but not being founded on a thorough knowledge...
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The Literary Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds,: ... To which is ..., Volume 2

Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1846 - 506 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...
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The Poetical Works, of John Milton: With a Memoir and Seven Embellishments

John Milton - 1847 - 604 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,...
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Juvenile Depravity ...

Henry Worsley - 1849 - 300 pages
...countenance The express resemblance of the gods, is chang'd Into some brutish form And they, so perfect is their misery, Not once perceive their foul disfigurement,...native home forget, To roll with pleasure in a sensual stye." Such the ancient fable, the crystallized form, as it were, into which the facts of long experience...
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Poetical Works

John Milton - 1850 - 704 pages
...ounce, or tiger, hog, or bearded goat, All other parts remaining as they were; And they, so perfect in 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 adventurous glade, Swift...
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The Yale Literary Magazine, Volume 16

1851 - 408 pages
...ounce, or tiger, hog, or bearded goat, All other parts remaining as they were, And they, so perfect in their misery, Not once perceive their foul disfigurement,...home forget, To roll with pleasure in a sensual sty." In all that we have ever read or heard, we remember nothing that so completely illustrates the brutifying,...
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The Yale Literary Magazine, Volume 16

1851 - 416 pages
...nature, to that of a loathsome brute, but still inhabiting a human form. " And they, so perfect in their misery, Not once perceive their foul disfigurement, But boast themselves more comely than before." What can be more expressive of the condition of willing, entire subjection to evil ? At moments when...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 2

John Milton - 1852 - 424 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 heavenr to give him safe convoy,...
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