 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 Hazlitt - 1845 - 490 sivua
...Milton's ' II Penseroso.' " Hence, vain deluding joys, The brood of folly without father bred! But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest...visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight," &c. The same writer thus moralises on the life of man, in a set of similes, as apposite as they are... | |
 | Gem book - 1846 - 398 sivua
...that people the sun-beams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail ! thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail ! divinest...Prince Memnon's sister might beseem ; Or that starr'd Ethiope queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The sea-nymphs, and their powers offended... | |
 | 1846 - 436 sivua
...that people the sunbeams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy ! Hail, divinest...esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem, Or that starred Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The Sea-Nymphs, and their powers... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 402 sivua
...people the sunbeams ;8 Or likeliest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest...sight, And therefore, to our weaker view, O'erlaid with Mack, staid Wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem,9 N 2 Or... | |
 | Eliphalet L. Rice - 1846 - 432 sivua
...that people the sunbeams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest...of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view, Overlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 sivua
...that people the sun-beams, Or likcst hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But k you pardon. Ferd. You have it ; For I account it...your cubs Duck. WhomJ Ferd. Call them your children, ; Illack, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem ; Or that starr'd Kthiop quceii... | |
 | John Milton - 1848 - 154 sivua
...that people the sun-beams; Or likest hovering 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; 16 Thee bright-hair'd Vesta, long of yore, To solitary... | |
 | George Croly - 1849 - 416 sivua
...dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddess sage and holy, Hail, diviriest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To...esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem; Or that starred Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The sea-nymphs, and their powers... | |
 | Frederick Charles Cook - 1849 - 144 sivua
...that people the sun-beams; Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' 5 train. But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest...weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue. 1 The Lydians, a people In Asia Minor. 3 The fable of Orpheus. This famous poet having lost his wife,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 sivua
...dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail divincst ord chamberlain, • I pray you,' quoth he, ' show them that it secmeth me O'crlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might... | |
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