 | English poetry - 1867 - 556 pages
...«land and wait. TO MR. LAWRENCE. LAWRENCE, of virtuous father, virtuous son, Now that the fields arc dank, and ways are mire. Where shall we sometimes...the fire Help waste a sullen day, what may be won Frrm the hard season gaining1! Time will run On smoother, till Favonius reinspire The frozen earth,... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...mirth on wisdom then attend, And social ease on learned toil. AKENSIDE. Ode on the Winter Solstice. LAWRENCE, of virtuous father, virtuous son, Now that the fields are dank and ways are mire, When shall we sometimes meet, and by the fire Help waste a sullen day, what may be won From the hard... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1867 - 414 pages
...frequently so used ; and so is help, sometimes, — as in Milton's Sonnet to his friend Lawrence : — Where shall we sometimes meet, and by the fire Help waste a sullen day? But, even since the language may be said to have entered upon the stage of its existence in which it... | |
 | English poetry - 1869 - 436 pages
...And when this dust falls to the urn, In that state I came, return. LXXVI //. Vaughan TO MR. LAWRENCE LAWRENCE, of virtuous father virtuous son, Now that...be won From the hard season gaining ? Time will run ()n smoother, till Favonius re-inspire The frozen earth, and clothe in fresh attire The lily and rose,... | |
 | John Milton - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 412 pages
...Ocean without rest: They also serve who only stand and waite. XX Lawrence of vertuous Father vertuous Son, Now that the Fields are dank, and ways are mire,...Where shall we sometimes meet, and by the fire Help wast a sullen day; what may be won From the hard Season gaining: time will run $ On smoother, till... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...o'er land and ocean without rest ; They also serve who only stand and wait." TO MR. LAWRENCE (1656) LAWRENCE, of virtuous father virtuous son, Now that...clothe in fresh attire The lily and rose, that neither sowed nor spun. What neat repast shall feast us. light and choice, Of Attic taste, with wine, whence... | |
 | Stanley Fish - Education - 1980 - 412 pages
...frozen and the day sullen. The only controversy the sonnet has inspired concerns its final two lines: Lawrence of virtuous father virtuous son, Now that...clothe in fresh attire The lily and rose, that neither sowed nor spun. What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice, Of Attic taste, with wine, whence... | |
 | John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...Ocean without resl: They also serve who only fland and waite. 5 Lawrence ofvertuous Father vertuous Son Now that the Fields are dank, and ways are mire,...Where shall we sometimes meet, and by the fire Help was! a sullen day; what may be won From the hard Season gaining: time will run On smoother, till Favonius... | |
 | Joshua Scodel - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 388 pages
...octave Milton emphasizes that the pleasures he offers respond decorously to the conditions of the times: Lawrence of virtuous father virtuous son, Now that...may be won From the hard season gaining: time will mn On smoother, till Favonius reinspire The frozen earth; and clothe in fresh attire The lily and rose,... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 2003 - 1084 pages
...life- which exceeds all the joy of his active service. SONNET XX LAWRENCE OF VIRTUOUS FATHER . . . Lawrence of virtuous Father virtuous Son, Now that...be won From the hard Season gaining? Time will run 5 On smoother till Favonius re-inspire The frozen earth, and clothe in fresh attire The Lily and Rose,... | |
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LAWRENCE, of virtuous father virtuous son, Now that the fields are dank, and ways are mire, Where shall we sometimes meet, and by the fire Help waste a sullen day, what may be won From the hard season gaining? Time will run On smoother, till Favonius... 
