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O welcome pure-ey'd Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings! - Comus (l. 213) [Faith] Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night? - Comus (l. 22) [Clouds] There does a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night, And casts a gleam over this tufted grove. - Comus (l. 223) [Clouds] Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment? - Comus (l. 244) [Music] How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled! - Comus (l. 249) [Angels] Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium. - Comus (l. 256) [Singing] But such a sacred and home-felt delight, Such sober certainty of waking bliss, I never heard till now. - Comus (l. 262) [Bliss] It were a journey like the path to heaven, To help you find them. - Comus (l. 302) [Heaven] Shepherd, I take thy word, And trust thy honest offer'd courtesy, Which oft is sooner found in lowly sheds With smoky rafters, than in tap'stry halls, And courts of princes. - Comus (l. 322) [Courtesy] Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportion'd strength. - Comus (l. 329) [Providence] Unmuffle, ye faint stars; and thou fair moon, That wont'st to love the traveller's benison, Stoop thy pale visage through an amber cloud, And disinherit Chaos. - Comus (l. 331) [Moon] Chaos, that reigns here In double night of darkness and of shades. - Comus (l. 334) [Chaos] With thy long levell'd rule of streaming light. - Comus (l. 340) [Light] What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid? - Comus (l. 362) [Grief] Virtue could see to do what Virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. - Comus (l. 373) [Virtue] And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where, with he best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impaired. - Comus (l. 375) [Solitude] He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i' the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon. - Comus (l. 381) [Character : Conscience : Light] The unsunn'd heaps Of miser's treasures. - Comus (l. 398) [Misers] Danger will wink on opportunity. - Comus (l. 401) [Opportunity] Yet, where an equal poise of hope and fear Does arbitrate the event, my nature is That I incline to hope rather than fear, And gladly banish squint suspicion. - Comus (l. 410) [Character] 'Tis chastity, my brother, chastity; She that has that is clad in complete steel, And, like a quiver'd nymph with arrows keen, May trace huge forests, and unharbour'd heaths, Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds; Where, through the sacred rays of chastity, No savage fierce, bandite, or mountaineer, Will dare to soil her virgin purity. - Comus (l. 420) [Chastity] So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lacky her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt. - Comus (l. 453) [Chastity] Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth. - Comus (l. 5) [World] Who knows not Circe, The daughter of the Sun, whose charmed cup Whoever tasted, lost his upright shape, And downward fell into a groveling swine? - Comus (l. 50) [Gods] Unbelief is blind. - Comus (l. 519) [Unbelief] Displaying page 12 of 30 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 [12] 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
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