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"'Mirth," cried I, most aptly appropriating the words of L'Allegro, "'to thee I sue! Mirth, admit me of thy crew!" "Let us indulge the poor youth," said Mirth, with a kindness which made me love her dearly, though I was no such coxcomb as to misinterpret her motives. "I have espied much promise in him.
Many expressions in the "Paradise Lost," in "Il Penseroso," and in "L'Allegro," are in the same predicament. N. B. In speaking of Hood as having appropriated the phrase Bridge of Sighs, I would not be understood to represent him as by possibility aiming at any concealment.
"To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven." "...Who overcomes By force hath overcome but half his foe." The effect of Paradise Lost on English thought is more a resultant of the entire poem than of detached quotations. L'Allegro and Il Penseroso have furnished as many current quotations as the whole of Paradise Lost.
Some that they had most loved to read were likewise there: "Pollock's Course of Time"; the slow outpourings of Young, sad sectary; Milton, with the passages on Hell approvingly underscored not as great poetry, but as great doctrine; nowhere in the bookcases a sign of the "Areopagitica," of "Comus," and "L'Allegro"; but most prominent the writings of Jonathan Edwards, hoarsest of the whole flock of New World theological ravens.
In Milton's contemptuous reference to Sidney's Arcadia as a vain amatorious poem, we feel that the finer sense of the author of L'Allegro has suffered from immersion in the slough of religious and political faction. Gauden, raking up material from all quarters, had inserted in his compilation a prayer taken from the Arcadia. Milton mercilessly works this topic against his adversary.
In returning from this dinner Sir Walter said, "I have seen some of these great men at the same table for the last time." Mr. William Wright, Barrister, Lincoln's Inn. See Life, vol. viii. p. 84. Milton's L'Allegro. A murder committed in 1817. The accused claimed the privilege of Wager of Battle, which was allowed by the Court for the last time, as the law was abolished in 1819. Othello, J.G.L.
Uncle Win would bring out a book of poems, often Milton's "L'Allegro" and half read, half listen, to the entrancing combination. Dinah declared "It was like de w'ice ob de Angel Gabriel hisself." Miss Recompense enjoyed the grand old hymns that brought back her childhood. Solomon at first made a vigorous protest.
I have sometimes read that these two idylls are "masterpieces of description". Other critics will ask if in the scenery of L'Allegro and Il Penseroso Milton has described the country about Horton, in Bucks, or that about Forest Hill, in Oxfordshire; and will object that the Chiltern Hills are not high enough for clouds to rest upon their top, much less upon their breast.
He seemed pleased at the moment, but said next minute, 'You have distressed me if memory goes, all is up with me, for that was always my strong point." Life, vol. ix. p. 236. Milton's L'Allegro, ver. 137, 294. Afterwards second Earl Powis. Regarding the Chancery business, see infra, p. 191, n. Sir Walter had shortly before been one of the contributors to a subscription for Mr. Haydon.
He brought Brendon back on his last journey from "Crow's Nest" in the launch and explained that he had already found good work beside the Thames. "We shall, I hope, meet again," he said, "and you may hear presently of a very wonderful adventure in which Doria shall be l'allegro the merry man and the hero!"
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