HENCE, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born In Stygian cave forlorn 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy! Find out some uncouth cell Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings And the night-raven sings ; There... The Poetical Works of John Milton - Page 288by John Milton - 1834Full view - About this book
| Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...gorgeous East, with richest hand, , Showers, on her kings barbaric, pearF and gold', Satan exalted sat. 2. Hence ! loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest...shrieks, and sights unholy, Find out some uncouth cell, Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings And the night raven sings ; There, under ebon shades... | |
| Rev. Samuel Wood - 1833 - 224 pages
...poetical description of what is sublime or awful. Of this we have an instance in Milton's L' Allegro: Hence, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest...shrieks, and sights unholy ! Find out some uncouth cell, Where brooding darkness spreads his jealous \rings, And the night raven sings ; There under ebon shades,... | |
| John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...last he rose, and twitch'd his mantle blue: To-morrow to fresh woods, and pastures new. L' ALLEGR 0. HENCE, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest...brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the mght-raven sings; There under ebon shades, and Uvw-brow'd rocks, As ragged as thy locks, In dark Cimmerian... | |
| George Field - Color - 1835 - 310 pages
...Black, fearful, comfortlest, and horrible. SHAKSPEARE. The blacke and doleful ebonie. SPENSER'S ELEGY. Hence, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest...shrieks, and sights unholy, Find out some uncouth cell, Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night-raven sings; There, under ebon shades,... | |
| Oratory - 1836 - 362 pages
...requires a lower tone of voice, and a sameness nearly approaching to a monotone, to give it variety. Hence ! loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest...shrieks, and sights unholy ; Find out some uncouth cell, Where brooding darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night raven sings ; There under ebon shades... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 336 pages
...thought, and faney. In foree of style no one, we think, hss ever approached him. MILTON. L'ALLBGRO. HENCE, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest...shrieks, and sights unholy, Find out some uncouth cell, Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night raven sings; There under ebon shades,... | |
| William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 pages
...like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again. L'ALLEGRO ; OR, THE MERRY MAN.— Milton. Hence, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest...shrieks, and sights unholy ! Find out some uncouth cell, Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night raven sings ; There, under ebon shades,... | |
| Fitz-Greene Halleck - English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...The scene shuts up with loss of breath, And leaves no epilogue but Death ! JOHN MILTON. 1608-1674. L'ALLEGRO. HENCE, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus...forlorn, 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unFind out some uncouth cell, [holy ! Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous And the night-raven... | |
| George Field - Artists' materials - 1841 - 458 pages
...horrible." " The blacke and doleful ebonie." " Hence, loathed Melancholy, SHAKSPERE. SPENSER'S ElegyOf Cerberus and blackest Midnight born, In Stygian cave...shrieks, and sights unholy, Find out some uncouth cell, Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night-raven sings ; There, under ebon shades,... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...unFind out some uncouth cell, [wings, Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous And the night-raven and heat refulgent Then thy Sun Shoots full perfection...the swelling year : And oft thy voice in dreadful Bat come, thou goddess fair and free, In Heaven yclep'd Euphrosyne, And by men, heart-easing Mirth... | |
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