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I sing the starry axis and the singing hosts in the sky, *and of the
gods suddenly destroyed in their own SHRINES*. -- Milton, 1629
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Shrine \Shrine\, v. t.
To enshrine; to place reverently, as in a shrine. ``Shrined
in his sanctuary.'' --Milton.
Shrine \Shrine\ (shr[imac]n), n. [OE. schrin, AS. scr[=i]n, from
L. scrinium a case, chest, box.]
1. A case, box, or receptacle, especially one in which are
deposited sacred relics, as the bones of a saint.
2. Any sacred place, as an altar, tomb, or the like.
Too weak the sacred shrine guard. --Byron.
3. A place or object hallowed from its history or
associations; as, a shrine of art.
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Milton
On Shakespeare. 1630
WHat needs my Shakespear for his HONOUR'D BONES,
The labour of an age in piled Stones,
Or that his HALLOW'D RELIQUES should be hid
Under a Star-ypointing PYRAMID?
Dear son of memory, great heir of Fame, [ 5 ]
What need'st thou such weak witnes of thy name?
Thou in our wonder and astonishment
Hast built thy self a live-long Monument.
For whilst to th' shame of slow-endeavouring art,
Thy easie numbers flow, and that each heart [ 10 ]
Hath from the leaves of thy unvalu'd Book,
Those DELPHICK lines with deep impression took,
Then thou our fancy of it self bereaving,
Dost make us MARBLE with too much conceaving;
And so Sepulcher'd in such POMP dost lie, [ 15 ]
That Kings for such a Tomb would wish to die.
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George Herbert
What I have treasur’d in my memorie !
Since, if my soul make even with the week,
Each seventh note by right is due to thee.
I finde there quarries of pil’d vanities,
But shreds of holinesse, that dare not venture
To shew their face, since crosse to thy decrees :
There the circumference earth is, heav’n the centre.
In so much dregs the quintessence is small :
The spirit and good extract of my heart
Comes to about the many hundredth part.
Yet, Lord, restore thine image, heare my call :
And though my hard heart scarce to thee can grone,
Remember that thou once didst write in stone.
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'Godly' Courtier Herbert - Movement from Material to Spiritual/Inwardness
'Worldly' Courtier Oxford/Shakespeare - Worldly/Material/Appearance/Idolatry
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APOLLO from his SHRINE/ Can no more divine,/
With hollow shreik the steep of DELPHOS leaving. - Milton
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King's Book/King's Shrine
Shakespeare's Book/Oxford's Shrine
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Milton, Eikonoklastes
...And here may be well observed the loose and negligent
curiosity of those, who took upon them to adorn the setting out of
this book; for though the picture set in front would martyr him and
saint him to befool the people, yet the Latin motto in the end, which
they understand not, leaves him, as it were, a politic contriver to
bring about that interest, by fair and plausible words, which the
force of arms denied him. But quaint emblems and devices, begged from
the old pageantry of some twelfthnight's entertainment at Whitehall,
will do but ill to make a saint or martyr: and if the people resolve
to take him sainted at the canonizing, I shall suspect their calendar
more than the Gregorian. In one thing I must commend the openness, who
gave the title to the is book, Eikon Basilike, that is to say, the
King's Image; and by the SHRINE he dresses out for him, certainly
would have the people come and worship him. For which reason this
answer is entitled, Eikonoklastes, the famous surname of many Greek
emperors, who, in their zeal to the command of God, after long
tradition of idolatry in the church, took courage and broke all
superstitious images to pieces.
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Performing early modern trauma from Shakespeare to Milton
By Thomas Page Anderson
In the "Preface" to Eikonoklastes, Milton establishes his strategy to
disarm the book in a disingenuous offer of praise. He "commends" the
King's "op'ness" in giving the title of The King's Image to the book.
And he complements as well the appearance of the project: "by the
SHRINE he dresses out for him, certainly would have the people come
and worship him" (EK, p.68). Milton's reference to the shrine echoes
Protestant writings that worked to debunk notions of the sacred altar
central to the Catholic sacraments. By acknowledging the altar-like
status of the text, Milton associates the book's appeal to its
putative efficacy. However, he qualifies the king's SHRINE by
suggesting that its altar-like status is the product of effective
staging or "dress[ing] out."
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DisMantle/DiVest
Lye there my Art.
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For whilst to th' shame of slow-endeavouring art,
Thy easie numbers flow, and that each heart [ 10 ]
Hath from the leaves of thy unvalu'd Book,
Those DELPHICK lines with DEEP IMPRESSION took, --Milton
Engrave \En*grave"\, v. t. [Pref. en- + grave a tomb. Cf.
Engrave to carve.]
To deposit in the grave; to bury. [Obs.] ``Their corses to
engrave.'' --Spenser.
Engrave \En*grave"\, v. t. [imp. Engraved; p. p. Engraved or
Engraven; p. pr. & vb. n. Engraving.] [Pref. en- + grave
to carve: cf. OF. engraver.]
1. To cut in; to make by incision. [Obs.]
Full many wounds in his corrupted flesh He did
engrave. --Spenser.
2. To cut with a graving instrument in order to form an
inscription or pictorial representation; to carve figures;
to mark with incisions.
Like . . . . a signet thou engrave the two stones
with the names of the children of Israel. --Ex.
xxviii. 11.
3. To form or represent by means of incisions upon wood,
stone, metal, or the like; as, to engrave an inscription.
4. To impress deeply; to infix, as if with a graver.
Engrave principles in men's minds. --Locke.
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Grave \Grave\, v. t. [imp. Graved (gr[=a]vd); p. p. Graven
(gr[=a]v"'n) or Graved; p. pr. & vb. n. Graving.] [AS.
grafan to dig, grave, engrave; akin to OFries. greva, D.
graven, G. graben, OHG. & Goth. graban, Dan. grabe, Sw.
gr[aum]fva, Icel. grafa, but prob. not to Gr. gra`fein to
write, E. graphic. Cf. Grave, n., Grove, n.]
1. To dig. [Obs.] Chaucer.
He hath graven and digged up a pit. --Ps. vii. 16
(Book of
Common
Prayer).
2. To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard
substance; to engrave.
Thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them
the names of the children of Israel. --Ex. xxviii.
9.
3. To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel;
to sculpture; as, to grave an image.
With gold men may the hearte grave. --Chaucer.
4. To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
O! may they graven in thy heart remain. --Prior.
5. To entomb; to bury. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
Lie full low, graved in the hollow ground. --Shak.
Graven \Grav"en\, p. p. of Grave, v. t.
Carved.
Graven image, an idol; an object of worship carved from
wood, stone, etc. ``Thou shalt not make unto thee any
graven image.'' --Ex. xx. 4.
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Look not on his Image, but his Book/
This side idolatry:
Graven Figure/Brazen Idol:
To the Reader.
This FIGURE, that thou here seest put,
It was for gentle Shakespeare CUT,
Wherein the GRAVER had a strife
with Nature, to out-doo the life :
O, could he but have drawne his wit
As well in brasse, as he hath hit
His face ; the Print would then surpasse
All, that was ever writ in BRASSE.
But, since he cannot, Reader, looke
Not on his PICTURE, but his BOOKE.
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Him thus intent Ithuriel with his spear Touch'd lightly; for no *falsehood* can endure Touch of celestial temper.--Milton, P.L.
