...an aftion of violence, impetuosity, and tumult, like that of a savage rushing on his prey ; whereas the poet is here attempting to exhibit an image of...circumspection and guilty timidity, the stealthy pace of a ravisher creeping into the chamber of a virgin, and of an assassin approaching the bed of him whom...

...Hecate's offerings, and wither'd Murder " Alarum'd by his centinel, the wolf, " Whose howls his watch, thus with his stealthy " pace " With Tarquin's ravishing...strides, towards his " design " Moves like a ghost. SHAKESPEARE, Orlando felt a kind of prophetic dread upon reading these lines, though he knew not why...

...Hecate's offerings ; and wither'd murder, Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate...

...Hecate's offerings; and wither'd murder, Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate...

...Hecate's offerings; and wither'd murder, Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate...

...an action of violence, impetuosity, and tumr.lt, like that of a savage rushing on his prey; whereas the poet is here attempting to exhibit an image of...of anxious circumspection and guilty timidity, the stealihy pace of a ravisher creeping into the chamber of a virgin, and of an assassin approaching the...

...Hecate's offerings ; and wither'd murder, Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing...strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost.—— —Thou sure and firm-set earth. Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate...

...Hecate's offerings; and wither'd murder, Alarum'd hy his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl 's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. ——Thou sure and firm-set earth,* Milton has transplanted this image into his Masque at Ludlow tiastte,...

...an action of violence, impetnosity, and tnmnlt, like that of a savage rnshing on his prey; whereas the poet is here Attempting to exhibit an image of secrecy and cantton, ot nnxiont circnmspection and gnilty timidity, the stealthy pace of a ravisker creeping into...

...ftecate's offerings ; and wither'd murder, Alarum'd hy his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl 's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Jifoves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth,5 Milton has transplanted this image into his Masque...