A Treasury of English Sonnets; Edited From the Original Sources With Notes And Illus
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77. ' TIte Vision t^ Matilda, prefixed to Drayton's Matilda, 1594, and signed ' H. G. Esquire.' Notes 245 ** INIetnouglit I saw in dead of silent niglit." ^ And the echo is still repeated by poets nearer our owai times . — " Methought I saw the footsteps of a throne." Wordsworth : Aliscellatieous Sonnets. ' ' Methought I saw a face divinely fair, "With nought of earthly passion." Lyra A^osU No. xcii. " Methought there was around me a strange light." Williams : Thoughts in Past Years. No, Iv. &c....' Raleigh is here employing a style — truly the very hyperbole of praise — which the reader will avoid the error of accepting in too prosaic a spirit. It were in Horatio's language to * consider too curiously ' to interpret the poem as a piece of deliberate critical appraisement, and thus have . to qualify our admiration of it with Dr. Trench's protest that ' the great poets of the past lose no whit of their glory because later poets are found worthy to share it ; ' that ' Petrarch in his lesser, and Homer in his greater sphere, are just as illustrious since Spenser ap- peared as before.' {A Houselwld Book of English Poetry, ed.
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