 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1879 - 456 pages
...pensive man's charmed contemplations. " And if aught else great bards beside In sage and solemn tunes have sung, Of tourneys, and of trophies hung, Of forests...enchantments drear, WHERE MORE is MEANT THAN MEETS THE EAR." Milton here recognises the fact that the divinest claim of the poet on the human mind is the... | |
 | John Hollander - Poetry - 1990 - 280 pages
...to the crucial and problematic line: And if aught else great Bards beside In sage and solemn tunes have sung, Of Tourneys and of Trophies hung, Of Forests,...the ear. Thus night oft see me in thy pale career . . . The "great Bards" are only one, Spenser, the suppression of whose name is a very different matter... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 286 pages
...king did ride; And if aught else great bards beside Or cloudless skies the coming Season show, Where more is meant than meets the ear. Thus, Night, oft see me in thy pale career. In sage, and solemn tunes have sung MILTON, PARTI. IN Sara's city once, in Tartary, reign'd A king,... | |
 | John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...sung, Of Turneys and of Trophies hung; OfForefts, and inchantments drear, Where more is meant then meets the ear. Thus night oft see me in thy pale career, Till civilssuited Morn appeer, Not trick andfrounct as she was wont, With the Attick Boy to hunt, But Cherchef'tin... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...brass On which the Tartar king did ride; And if aught else great bards beside In sage and solemn tunes have sung, Of tourneys, and of trophies hung, Of forests,...enchantments drear, Where more is meant than meets the ear.75 120 Thus, Night, oft see me in thy pale career, Till civil-suited Morn appear, Not tricked and... | |
 | Anne Williams - Literary Criticism - 2009 - 325 pages
...rereading the Book of Nature turned out to have some distinctly Gothic pages. The Nature of Gothic Of forests and enchantments drear, Where more is meant than meets the ear. John Milton "II Penseroso" (119-20) In looking at objects of Nature while I am thinking, as at... | |
 | Anne Plumptre - Fiction - 1996 - 388 pages
...unidentified. 5 "more was meant than met the ear. " Milton. // Penseroso: "In sage and solemn tunes have sung, / Of Tourneys and of Trophies hung, / Of...enchantments drear, / Where more is meant than meets the ear" (117-120). 6 the daughters of Parnassus. The Muses. Parnassus is a mountain in Greece which was... | |
 | George MacDonald, U. C. Knoepflmacher - Fiction - 1999 - 388 pages
...not to the tale's content or subject matter, but rather to its narrative mode: "Great bards besides / In sage and solemn times have sung / Of tourneys and...enchantments drear, / Where more is meant than meets the ear." Adopting the tone of a professorial MacDonald lecturing to his Bedford College students, Mr.... | |
 | Roger Sherman Loomis - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 210 pages
...Reformation did these centuries-old tales of quest and conquest, of fairy loves and fatal passion, 'of tourneys and of trophies hung, of forests and...enchantments drear, where more is meant than meets the ear', go out of fashion. But not without leaving many permanent effects on life and literature. The... | |
 | U. C. Knoepflmacher - History - 1998 - 470 pages
..."from no worse authority than John Milton: 'Great bards besides / In sage and solemn times have sung /.../Of forests and enchantments drear, /Where more is meant than meets the ear'" (AC, 54). Smith explicates his chosen touchstone: "Milton here refers to Spenser in particular,... | |
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Canace to wife, That owned the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous horse of brass, On which the Tartar king did ride; And if aught else, great bards beside, In sage and solemn tunes have sung, Of tourneys and of trophies hung; Of forests, and... 
