The Descent of Liberty: A Mask

Leigh Hunt

Gale, Curtis, and Fenner, 1815 - 82 lappuses

Saturs

• 1. sadaļa: i
• 2. sadaļa: iii
• 3. sadaļa: v
• 4. sadaļa: xix
• 5. sadaļa: lvi
• 6. sadaļa: 2
• 7. sadaļa: 3
• 8. sadaļa: 7
• 9. sadaļa: 23
• 10. sadaļa: 82

Populāri fragmenti

xxix. lappuse - In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry; Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream.

xvi. lappuse - The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul...

xviii. lappuse - So as it appeareth that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shews of things to the desires of the mind; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.

xlv. lappuse - QUEEN and Huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess excellently bright. Earth, let not thy envious shade Dare itself to interpose; Cynthia's shining orb was made Heaven to clear when day did close: Bless us then with wished sight, Goddess excellently bright. Lay thy bow of pearl apart And thy...

xlii. lappuse - Peace and silence be the guide To the man, and to the bride ! If there be a joy yet new In marriage, let it fall on you, That all the world may wonder ! If we should stay, we should do worse, And turn our blessing to a curse, By keeping you asunder.

xlv. lappuse - Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair; Listen for dear honour's sake, Goddess of the silver lake, Listen, and save. Listen, and appear to us, In name of great Oceanus; By the earth-shaking Neptune's mace, And Tethys...

xxxviii. lappuse - Jupiter and Juno, willing to do honour to the marriage of the two famous rivers Thamesis and Rhine, employ their messengers severally, Mercury and Iris, for that purpose. They meet and contend: then Mercury, for his part, brings forth an anti-masque all of spirits or divine natures ; but yet not of one kind or livery (because that had been so much in use heretofore), but, as it were, in consort, like to broken music...

xliv. lappuse - a young woman with a smiling face, in a light lascivious habit, adorned with silver and gold, her temples crowned with a garland of roses, and over that a rainbow circling her head down to her shoulders." Poverty's speech is followed with a dance of Gypsies, Pleasure's with that of the Five Senses: but Mercury dismisses her in like manner, commencing, among other images of a less original complexion, with some that are very lively and forcible: Bewitching Syren, gilded rottenness, Thou hast with...

64. lappuse - The air, dear goddess, sighs for thee, The light-heart brooks arise for thee, And the poppies red On their wistful bed Turn up their dark blue eyes for thee. Laugh out in the loose green jerkin '; That's fit for a goddess to work in, With shoulders brown, And the wheaten crown About thy temples perking. And with thee...

xvii. lappuse - Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical. Because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more according to revealed providence.

Bibliogrāfiskā informācija

• Nosaukums: The Descent of Liberty: A Mask
• Autors: Leigh Hunt
• Izdevējs: Gale, Curtis, and Fenner, 1815
• Oriģināls no: Oksfordas universitāte
• Digitalizēta: 3.8.2007
• Apjoms: 82 lappuses