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" And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth show, And every herb that sips the dew : Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic... "
Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ... - Page 13
by John Aikin - 1841 - 807 pages
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The poetical works of John Milton, ed. with a critical memoir by ..., Issue 322

John Milton - 1871 - 530 pages
...service high, and anthems clear, As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes. And may at...sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth show, And every herb that sips the dew ; Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic...
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 4

1909 - 502 pages
...service high and anthems clear, As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes. And may at...spell, Of every star that Heaven doth shew, And every hearb that sips the dew; Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain. These pleasures,...
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John Milton: Introductions

John Broadbent - 1973 - 364 pages
...mazes of the wood. He supplies very much the kind of folk wisdom the poet wishes for in // penseroso : And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful...experience do attain To something like prophetic strain. This kind of wisdom is certainly special, but it doesn't set the artist completely apart from the community,...
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The Works of John Milton: With an Introduction and Bibliography

John Milton - 1994 - 630 pages
...service high and anthems clear, As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes. And may at...The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and righdy spell 170 Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience...
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Darke Hierogliphicks: Alchemy in English Literature from Chaucer to the ...

Stanton J. Linden - 392 pages
..."pealing Organ" and "full voic'd Choir," these influences come to be identified with prophetic wisdom: And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful...Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every Star that Heav'n doth shew, And every Herb that sips the dew; Till old experience do attain To something like...
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A Sourcebook about Music

Alan J. Hommerding - 1997 - 180 pages
...service high and anthems clear, As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes. And may at...experience do attain To something like prophetic strain. lohn Milton These pleasures, Melancholy, give, Seventeenth century And I With thee Will choOSC tO live....
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The Major Works

John Milton - 2003 - 1012 pages
...service high, and anthems clear, As may with sweemess, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes. And may at...hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell,0 170 Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew; Till old experience...
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The Invention of Evening: Perception and Time in Romantic Poetry

Christopher R. Miller - 2006 - 12 pages
...fulfillment, that recalls the aspirational syntax of "II Penseroso" - the concluding petition for a "Mossy Cell, / Where I may sit and rightly spell /...experience do attain / To something like prophetic strain" (169—74). Keats's version of this moment brings the hermit's vision of monastic retirement outdoors...
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The Minder Brain

Joe Herbert - 2007 - 474 pages
...episodes of ineffectual violence and muffled shrieking. Ian McEwan. Amsterdam. (Jonathan Cape, London.) And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful...sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth show, And every herb that sips the dew: Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain....
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Be a Poet

Nancy Bogen - 2007 - 426 pages
...Anthems clear, As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heav'n before mine eyes. And may at last my weary age Find...and Mossy Cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of even,' Star that Heav'n doth shew, And every Herb that sips the dew; Till old experience do attain...
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