...that has alluded to this fiction in modern times. He evidently had it in view in the following lines : The gilded car of day His glowing axle doth allay...And the slope sun his upward beam Shoots against the diaky pole, Pacing toward the other goal Of his chamber in the east. — Cornus, 95. In the Cambridge...

...being a defect, is an aberration that imparts wonderful spirit and beauty to the song of Comus — The star that bids the shepherd fold Now the top of heaven doth hold, &c. Iii the second of these lines the word Now takes the place of an iambus. In short, it may be laid...

...men and women, their apparel glistering; they come in making a riotous and unruly noise, with their torches in their hands.] The star that bids the shepherd...against the dusky pole, Pacing toward the other goal 1 Of his chamber in the east. Meanwhile welcome joy and feast, Midnight shout and revelry, Tipsy dance...

...apparel glistering; they come in making a riotous and unruly noise, with torches in their hands. COMUS. The star that bids the shepherd fold Now the top of...upward beam Shoots against the dusky pole, Pacing towards the other goal Of his chamber in the east. Meanwhile, welcome joy, and feast, Midnight shout...

...riotous and unruly noise, with torches in their hands.] Com. The star, that bids the shepherd fold,1 Now the top of heaven doth hold ; And the gilded car...of day " His glowing axle doth allay In the steep Atlantick stream ; And the slope sun his upward beam Shoots against the dusky pole, Pacing toward the...

...rising in the east. Milton alludes to this in his " Comus." " Now the gilded car of day His golden axle doth allay In the steep Atlantic stream, And...upward beam Shoots against the dusky pole, Pacing towards the other goal Of his chamber in the east." The abode of the gods was on the summit of Mount...

...enters with his mad rout, and delivers himself after the fashion of this short and merry measure : — " The star, that bids the shepherd fold, Now the top of heaven doth hold ; And the gilded car of day Bis glowing axle doth allay In the steep Atlantic stream ; And the slope sun his upward beam Shoots...

...not escaped Milton, win i, within the short space of the song of C'omus, uses it several times:— And the gilded car of day His glowing axle doth allay In the steep Atlantic stream ; And the slor.e sun his upward beam Shoots against the dusky pole, Pacing toward the other goal Of his chamber...

...not escaped Milton, win i, within the short space of the song of C'omus, uses it several times : — And the gilded car of day His glowing axle doth allay In the steep Atlantic stream ; And the slor.e sun his upward beam Shoots against the dusky pole, Pacing toward the other goal Of his chamber...

...men and women, their apiutrel glistering ; they come in making a riotous aud unruly noise, with their torches in their hands.] The star that bids the shepherd...Shoots against the dusky pole, Pacing toward the other goal1 Of his chamber in the east. Meanwhile welcome joy and feast, Midnight shout and revelry, Tipsy...