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...mortalia corda Per gentes humilis stravit pavor ; . . . And so again in these lines of Milton : — The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore...nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn. It will be noticed that in both these passages the mythological touch (which is far more pronouncd,...

...Griechenlands — such as, perhaps, half unconsciously influenced Milton when he sang his Christmas Carol : The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,...Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn. But Julian, though not a man to sit down and pine over days that are no more, was no persecutor when...

...Nativity. The spirit and tone of Milton's lines are scarce surpassed by any thing even in his later works : "The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn," etc. But we condemn not the poem of our author, because it does not equal Milton's! It has much beauty...

...priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping3 heard and loud lament : From haunted spring and dale,...nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn. 1 Unexpressive— inexpressible — such as cannot be described. 8 The oracles, Sfc. — All the heathen...

...the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale, Edg'd with poplar pale, The parting genius is with sighing...flower-inwoven tresses torn The nymphs in twilight shades of tangled thickets mourn !" The fathers of the church believed, that the fallen angels, taking...

...loud lament ; From haunted spring and dale, Edged with poplar pale, The parting Genius is with signing sent ; With flower-inwoven tresses torn, The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn," etc. But we condemn not the poem of our author, because it does not equal Milton's! It has much beauty...

...And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and loud lament ; From haunted spring and dale, With flower-inwoven tresses torn, The Nymphs, in twilight shade of tangled thickets, In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, The lars and lemures moan with midnight plaint ; In urns...

...weeping heard and lond lament ; From hannted spring and dale, Edged with poplar pale, The parting Genins1 is with sighing sent ; With flower-inwoven tresses torn, The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thiekets monrn. In eonseerated earth, And on the holy hearth, The Lars, and Lemnres, moan with midnight...

...quoted on the flight of our Christmas festivities from the agricultural districts of old England : — " The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore...tresses torn, The nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thicket mourn." Let us conclude with an opening stanza or two of Milton's Ode:— " This is the month,...