But hail! thou Goddess sage and holy! Hail, divinest Melancholy! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's... The Poetical Works of John Milton - Sivu 216tekijä(t) John Milton - 1852Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
| William Enfield - 1823 - 412 sivua
...that people the sunbeams, Or likest hov'ring dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy ! Hail divinest...her beauty's praise above The sea-nymphs, and their pow'rs offended : Yet thou art higher far descended ; Thee bright-hair'd Vesta long of yore To solitary... | |
| John Aikin - 1807 - 706 sivua
...and may, perhaps, be new to many of your readers and those of Milton, Permit me to quote the passage. Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense...Wisdom's hue; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Menmon'8 sister might beseem, Or that starred Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 sivua
...of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou godde.«, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy! ЛУЪозе saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human...Or that starr'd Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauties' praisp above The Sea-nymphs, anil their powers oiSjnded : Yet thou art higher far descended,... | |
| British anthology - 1824 - 460 sivua
...that people the sunbeams ; Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morphens' train. But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest...Wisdom's hue; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memuon's sister might beseem, Or that starr'd Ethiop queen, that strove To set her beauty's praise... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 sivua
...that people the sun-beams, Or likest hovering dreams. The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But n d t B a p u St ; Slack, but ntch as in esteem Aiinee Memnon's sister might beseem, Эr that starr'd Ethiop queen that... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 468 sivua
...poetry for train, attendants, retinue, &c. As in the Mids. N. Dr. act ii. 8. 1. of the faery queen, But hail thou Goddess, sage and holy, Hail divinest Melancholy,...weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid wisdom's hue ; This was in consequence of Qu. Elizabeth's fashionable establishment of a band of military courtiers... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 472 sivua
...is ex' cursive, Melancholy is attached " to its object." T. Warton. 16. fferlaid with black, staid Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister...queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above 30. The Sea-Nymphs, and their pow'rs offended: Yet thou art higher far descended, Thee bright-hair'd... | |
| Mary Ann Kelty - 1824 - 976 sivua
...of mine), at the insipid manner in which time passed in the house we at present inhabit, — " But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy ; Hail, divinest...visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight," — he repeated, raising his fine, expressive eyes as he spoke, and looking so in unison with the words... | |
| Mary Ann Kelty - 1824 - 240 sivua
...relations of mine,) at the insipid manner in which time passed in the house we at present inhabit, " But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy ; Hail, divinest...visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight," — he repeated, raising his fine, expressive eyes as he spoke, and looking so in unison with the words... | |
| Mary Ann Kelty - 1824 - 256 sivua
...at the insipid manner in which time passed in the house we at present inhabit, _«? But hail, thoo goddess, sage and holy; Hail, divinest Melancholy...visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight," — he repeated, raising his fine, expressive eyes as he spoke, and looking so in unison with the words... | |
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