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" There held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, till With a sad, leaden, downward cast Thou fix them on the earth as fast: And join with thee calm Peace, and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet, And hears the Muses in a ring Aye... "
School Reading by Grades: Eighth Year - Page 216
by James Baldwin - 1897 - 240 pages
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 pages
...And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens takes his pleasure. But first, and chicfest, with thee bring Him that yon soars on golden wing,...throne, The cherub Contemplation : And the mute silence hi«t along, 'Less Philomel will deign a song In her sweetest, saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged...
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Deacon Giles's Distillery: And Other Miscellanies

George Barrell Cheever - 1853 - 406 pages
...rural exercise — And join with thee calm Peace and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet : And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens takes his pleasure. Intemperance is by no means confined to the drinking of ardent spirits. There are multitudes, who becloud...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 3

John Milton - 1853 - 344 pages
...earth as fast : And join with thee calm Peace, and Quiet, 45 Spare Fast, that oft with Gods doth diet, And hears the Muses in a ring Aye round about Jove's altar sing : 35 Cyprus] Winter's Tale, act iv. sc. 3. And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens takes...
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The Boy's Second Help to Reading: A Selection of Choice Passages from ...

Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 332 pages
...fast ; And join with thee calm Peace and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet, And hear the Muses in a ring, Aye round about Jove's altar...takes his pleasure ; But first and chiefest with thee pring Him that yon soars on golden wing, * Son of Tithonas, by Aurora, and king of Ethiopia. He was...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: A New Edition Carefully Revised from the ...

John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...fast: And join with thee calm Peace, and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet, And hear the Muses in a ring Aye round about Jove's altar sing;...will deign a song, In her sweetest, saddest plight, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Smoothing the rugged brow of night, Gently o'er the accustomed...
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Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Volume 4

1897 - 554 pages
...it was the fashion to call the formal garden ; he did not know whether Milton, when he wrote—• And add to these retired leisure That in trim gardens takes his pleasure— meant the formal garden, or whether he meant one that was nicely kept. However, there was certainly...
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 4

1909 - 502 pages
...the earth as fast. And join with thee calm Peace and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet, And hears the Muses in a ring Aye round about Jove's...in trim gardens takes his pleasure ; But, first and chieftest, with thee bring Him that yon soars on golden wing, Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne, The...
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The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry, Donne to Marvell

Thomas N. Corns - 1993 - 340 pages
...the poetic arts: And join with thee calm Peace and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet, And hears the Muses in a ring Aye round about Jove's Altar sing. (lines 45 8) The absent song of the nightingale is invoked, and though it remains absent it is nonetheless...
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The Works of John Milton: With an Introduction and Bibliography

John Milton - 1994 - 630 pages
...thee calm Peace and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet, And hears the Muses in a ring Ay round about Jove's altar sing; And add to these retired...Leisure, That in trim gardens takes his pleasure; 50 But, first and chiefest, with thee bring Him that yon soars on golden wing, Guiding the fiery-wheeled...
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Squitter-wits and Muse-haters: Sidney, Spenser, Milton, and Renaissance ...

Peter C. Herman - 1996 - 294 pages
...themselves in the poem's next section, in which II Penseroso asks Melancholy to bring Apollo in his chariot: But first and chiefest, with thee bring Him that yon...fiery-wheeled throne, The Cherub Contemplation; And the jute Silence hist along 'less Philomel will deign a song. In her sweetest saddest plight. Smoothing...
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