...Iliad, xix. 300-2. Marvell is more devious. I have said that a climax of abnegation is reached with 'Tis madness to resist or blame The force of angry heaven's flame but the poet is quick to reduce the incipient grandeur. In the lines which follow he drops suddenly...

...evokes that of the Cromwell of Marvell's 'Horatian Ode'. Marvell had pronounced of Cromwell in 1651, "Tis madness to resist or blame / The force of angry heaven's flame.' Davenant has Pirrhus, chief adviser to Solyman, similarly allude to Solyman's irresistible might in...

...devastating lightning blast, Marvell stops dead, as if suddenly reminded that there is a real man: And, if we would speak true Much to the man is due. Who, from his private Gardens, where He liv'd reserved and austere, As if his highest plot To plant the Bergamot, Could by industrial valour...

...Cromwells Leben ein. Sein Wirken als Landedelman vor jeder öffentlichen Tätigkeit faßt er in ein Bild: "He lived reserved and austere, / As if his highest plot / To plant the Bergamot" (30-32). Die Ereignis folge, die zu Karls Enthauptung führte, wird (im Einklang mit der zeitgenössischen...

...three-forked lightning" (13) with such force that Caesar's head at last Did thorough his laurels blast. 'Tis madness to resist or blame The force of angry heaven's flame (23-6) Like his image of the scythe in "Damon the Mower," highlighting what Enterline describes as...