 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1871 - 704 pages
...could be compared to nothing so fitly as to the rabble of Comus, grotesque monsters, half bestial, half human, dropping with wine, bloated with gluttony, and reeling in obscene dances. Amidst these that fair Muse was placed, like the chaste lady of the Masque, lofty, spotless, and serene, to be chattered... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - Authors - 1871 - 350 pages
...dropping with wine, bloated with gluttony, reeling in obscene dances. Amidst these his muse was pkced, like the chaste lady of the masque, lofty, spotless and serene, — to be chattered at, and pointed at, and grinned at, by the whole rabble of satyrs and goblins." Yet, from... | |
 | John Milton - 1871 - 312 pages
...could be compared to nothing so fitly as to the rabble of Comus — grotesque monsters, half bestial, half human, dropping with wine, bloated with gluttony, and reeling in obscene dances, "t But the poet, who had ceased to hope for his country, did not give way to a cynical despair. Amidst... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1873 - 614 pages
...compared to nothing so fitly as to the rabble of Comus, — grotesque' monsters, half-bestial, half-human, dropping with wine, bloated with gluttony, and reeling...grinned at by the whole rabble of Satyrs and Goblins. 3. If ever despondency and asperity could be excused in any man, it might have been excused in Milton.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1874 - 328 pages
...could be compared to nothing so fitly as to the rabble of Comus, grotesque monsters, half bestial, half human, dropping with wine, bloated with gluttony,...chatted at, and pointed at, and grinned at, by the whole rout of Satyrs and Goblins. If ever despondency and asperity could be excused in any man, they might... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1874 - 264 pages
...could be compared to nothing so fitly as to the rabble of Comus, grotesque monsters, half bestial, half human, dropping with wine, bloated with gluttony, and reeling in obscene dances. Admidst these his Muse was placed, like the chaste lady of the masque, lofty, spotless, and serene... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1876 - 622 pages
...be compared to nothing, so fitly, as to the rabble of Comus* — grotesque monsters, half bestial, half human, — dropping with wine, bloated with gluttony,...Muse was placed, like the chaste lady of the Masque, lofly, spotless, and serene — to be chatted at, and pointed at, and grinned at, by the whole tribe... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1876 - 506 pages
...could be compared to nothing so fitly as to the rabble of Comus, grotesque monsters, half bestial, half human, dropping with wine, bloated with gluttony, and reeling in obscene dances. Amidst these that fair Muse was placed, like the chaste lady of the Masque, lofty, spotless, and serene, to be chattered... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1876 - 508 pages
...could be compared to nothing so fitly as to the rabble of Comus, grotesque monsters, half bestial, half human, dropping with wine, bloated with gluttony, and reeling in obscene dances. Amidst these that fair Muse was placed, like the chaste lady of the Masque, lofty, spotless, and serene, to be chattered... | |
 | Thomas Whitcombe Greene - English language - 1876 - 340 pages
...compared to nothing so fitly as to the rabble of Comus, — grotesque monsters, half bestial, half human. Amidst these his muse was placed, like the chaste lady of the masque, lovely, spotless, and serene, to be chattered at and pointed at, and grinned at by the whole rabble... | |
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Comus, grotesque monsters, half bestial, half human, dropping with wine, bloated with gluttony, and reeling in obscene dances. Amidst these... 
