...no more," Retnrn, Alphens, the dread voice is past, That shrnnk thy streams; retnrn, Sicilian Mnse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells, and ilmv Vrls of a thonsand hnes. 135 Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers nse Of shades and wanton...

...contagion spread : Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said, But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells, and flow'rets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,...

...two-handed engine at the door ^ t Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.' -7, \ Return Alphcus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse, ',v^And call the vales, and bid them hither cast . tThcir bells, and flowerets of a thousand hues....

...wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing sed : But that two-handed engine at the door 1.10 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past. That sliriink thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells,...

...curious that some difficult lines in Milton may be explained by this latter circumstance. He says, " That two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." The two-handed engine is evidently a printing-press ; (say that of Minerva :) Publishers do actually...

...curious that some difficult lines in Milton may be explained by this latter circumstance. lie says, " That two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." The two-handed engine is evidently a . . , printing-press ; (say that of Minerva :) the great Edinburgh...

...with rich inlay Broider'd the ground." Nor less exquisite is the following passage from Lycidns. " Return, Sicilian muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flow'rets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, wbcie the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds...

...flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw; The hungry sheep look up, and are hot fed, But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw,...smite no more." Return, Alpheus ! the dread voice is pass'd, That shrunk thy streams: return, Sicilian Muse ! And call the vales, and bid them hither cast...

...Built in the eclipse, and rigged with curses dark, That sunk so low that sacred head of thine. T5 ***** Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk...flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low where the wild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the sivart-star...

...contagion spread ; Besides what the grim wolf, with privy paw, Daily devours apace; and nothing said, But that two-handed engine at the door, Stands ready...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells, and flow'rets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,...