...playing Faustus, With the Cross upon his breast." The age of Shakespeare was the age of romance, " Of pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask and antique...youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream." As yet, frigid philosophy had not reduced man's existence to one dull round of sad realities ; but...

...and by interrupted appearances." At line 131, the poet alludes to a stage worthy of his presence :— Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on ; Or sweetest Shakspeare, fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild. Milton had not yet gone such extravagant...

...contend To win her grace, whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And Pomp, and Feast, and Revelry, With Mask and antique...anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespear, Fancy's childe, Warble his native wood-notes wilde. And ever against eating cares, Lap...

...contend To win her grace, whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron rohe, with taper clear, And Pomp, and Feast, and Revelry, With Mask and antique...Such sights as youthful poets dream, On summer eves hy haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned soek he on, Or sweetest Shakespear,...

...To win her grace, whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear, In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask and antique...pageantry ; Such sights as youthful poets dream, On summer eve by haunted stream. — L'ALLEGRO. If any utilitarian require further reason for our particularity...

...contend To win her grace whom all commendThere let Hymen oft appear In. sain-on robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique...pageantry ; Such sights as youthful poets dream, On summer eve, by haunted stream, Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest...

...mask, and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. iso Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned...native wood-notes wild. And ever against eating cares, 135 Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse ; Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In...

...enticed as from our more immediate purpose ; and we must, still yielding to the witcheries of Milton, " To the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock...Fancy's child, Warble his native woodnotes wild." We admire, en passant, the fine discrimination with which the poet allots to each great dramatist his...

...self-denial, intellect, and courage, SHALL NOT FAIL! XC AMUSEMENTS OP THE MONTH. MARYLEBONE THEATRE. " Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on ; Or Sweetest Shakespeare, Nature's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild." L'ALLEGRO. Thus in his cheerful and his contemplative...

...contend To win her grace whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe with taper clear, And pomp and feast and revelry, With mask and antique...anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakspeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild. YACINTH. Hyacinthus. Class 6, H ANDIUA....