 | John Milton - 1833 - 438 pages
...liquid plain, then stood unmov'd Pure as the' expanse of heaven. 1 thither went With unexperienc'd thought, and laid me down On the green bank, to look...bent down to look, just opposite A shape within the watery gleam appear'd. Bending to look on me : I started back, It started back; but pleas'd I soon... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1834 - 366 pages
...compensate two short ones, so as to make the sum of the quantity of the two feet, equal to two lamhics. u On the green bank to look into the clear Smooth lake that to me seem'd another sky. Stood rul'd stood vast Infinitude confln'd. The next variety admitted is that of the Amphibrach. Which... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...* With unexperienc'd thought, and laid me down ยป On the green bank, to look into the clear Smoollr lake, that to me seem'd another sky. As I bent down to look, just opposite 460 A shape within the watry gleam appear'd, Bending to look on me: I started back, It started back;... | |
 | Wadham College - 70 pages
...liquid plain, then stood unmov'd, Pure as th" expanse of heav'n : I thither went, With inexperienced thought, and laid me down On the green bank, to look...look, just opposite A shape within the watry gleam appeared, Bending to look on me : I started back ; It started back : but pleas'd I soon returned ;... | |
 | Regina M. Schwartz - 1993 - 162 pages
...from her watery image to the Other, Eve would have succumbed to doubling. A Shape within the vvat'ry gleam appear'd Bending to look on me, I started back,...I soon return'd, Pleas'd it return'd as soon with answering looks Of sympathy and love; (IV. 461-65) Both Sin and Eve are engendered without mothers.... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1993 - 390 pages
...a liquid plain, then stood unmoved Pure as the expanse of heaven; I thither went With unexperienced thought, and laid me down On the green bank, to look into the clear Smooth lake that to me seemed another sky. As I bent down to look, just opposite A shape within the watery gleam appeared,... | |
 | Anthony Low - 1993 - 286 pages
...when she is momentarily, but still innocently, held enthralled by her reflection in the smooth lake : As I bent down to look, just opposite, A Shape within the watry gleam appeerd Bending to look on me, I started back, It started back, but pleas'd I soon returnd, Pleas'd... | |
 | Charles W. Durham, Kristin Pruitt McColgan - 1994 - 316 pages
...description of her image clearly reflects her desire for relationship, for connection with another: A Shape within the wat'ry gleam appear'd Bending to...I soon return'd, Pleas'd it return'd as soon with answering looks Of sympathy and love. (4.461-65) In Adam and Eve's first appearance in Paradise Lost,... | |
 | Bonnie Wheeler - 1993 - 372 pages
...questions about her self and place and then is drawn to a mirror-like lake and a responsive shape within. As I bent down to look, just opposite, A Shape within the watry gleam appeerd Bending to look on me, I started back, It started back, but pleasd I soon returnd, Pleasd it... | |
 | Russell B. Goodman - 1995 - 332 pages
...of Milton, knew the scene in Book 4 of Paradise Lost where Eve first discovers her image in a pool; "As I bent down to look, just opposite, / A shape within the wat'ry gleam appeared / Bending to look on me." The recurrence of this figuration in Frost is, however, uniquely... | |
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Pure as the expanse of Heaven: I thither went, With unexperienced thought, and laid me down On the green bank, to look into the clear Smooth lake, that to me seem'd another sky. 
