Comus
well worked out, with a complete originality and extraordinary elevation of style, is perhaps Milton's masterpiece, and is simply the eulogy of virtue.--Taine.
I did not perceive its faults.--Anon.
Conch (konk) Shell, a large spiral shell with a flowing lip, formerly much used as a dinner horn to call the men from the field. In Hawthorne's day the fish dealer announced his passage along the village street by blowing lustily on a conch shell. The large pink conch of the West Indies is in demand for its pearl, and is much used for inlaid work, buttons, pearl handles and the like. Held to the ear, the conch gives forth a murmuring sound likened by the poets to that of the distant ocean.
But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue
Within, and they that lustre have imbibed
In the sun's palace-porch, where when unyoked
His chariot-wheel stands midway in the wave;
Shake one, and it awakens; then apply
Its polished lips to your attentive ear,
And it remembers its august abodes,
And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.
Within, and they that lustre have imbibed
In the sun's palace-porch, where when unyoked
His chariot-wheel stands midway in the wave;
Shake one, and it awakens; then apply
Its polished lips to your attentive ear,
And it remembers its august abodes,
And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.
--Walter Savage Landor.
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