 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
 | John Milton - 1855 - 564 sivua
...that people the sunbeams ; Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou goddess sage and holy, Hail divinest Melancholy...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... | |
 | 1855 - 458 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... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 452 sivua
...that people the sunbeams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus9 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 sivua
...Valour, or Passionate Madman." Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy,...sight, And therefore to our weaker view, O'erlaid with Clack, staid wisdom's hue; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's 1 sister might beseem, Or that... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1855 - 508 sivua
...alludes to this story in his Penseroso, •where he addresses Melancholy as the " goddess, sage and holy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense...view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue. Black, hut such as in esteem Prince Memnou's sister might beseem, Or that starred JEthiop queen that strove... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 610 sivua
...affeetion. John Forfs Lover1s Melaneholy. But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest melaneholy! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense...sight, And therefore to our weaker view, O'erlaid with blaek, staid wisdom's hue. Mlltm's II Penseroso. These pleasures, melaneholy, give, And I with thee... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 574 sivua
...that people the sunbeams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But k _ F.`[^ [ * &19 1 H starred Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauties' praise above The sea-nymphs, and their powers... | |
 | Collection - 1856 - 120 sivua
...motes that people the sunbeams, Or likest hovering dreams The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy ! Hail divinest...Wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memmon's sister might beseem : Or that starr'd Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauties praise... | |
 | Stanley Fish - 1980 - 412 sivua
...distinction (or series of distinctions) we are pressured to make. That pressure is felt as soon as we hear, "Hail divinest Melancholy, / Whose Saintly visage is too bright / To hit the sense of human sight" (12—14). These lines turn on a paradox, and it is in the nature of a paradox that a reader who recognizes... | |
 | William Bridges Hunter (Jr.) - 1986 - 260 sivua
...spiritual truth that is too bright for the carnal eye: But hail thou Goddes, sage and holy, Hail divmest Melancholy, Whose Saintly visage is too bright To hit the Sense of human sight; And therfore to our weaker view, Ore laid with black staid Wisdoms hue. (11-16) And to counter the scandalous... | |
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