 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...  Beauties of the British Poets ... - Page 68by George Croly - 1850 - 395 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Aikin - Literature, Modern - 1807 - 706 pages
...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... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...the sunbeams ; Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morphens' train. But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...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...esteem. Prince Memnon's sister might beseem, Or that starr'd Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauties' praisp above The Sea-nymphs, anil their powers... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 468 pages
...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...people the sun-beams, Or likest hovering dreams. The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail thou a p u St ; Slack, but ntch as in esteem Aiinee Memnon's sister might beseem, Эr that starr'd Ethiop queen that... | |
 | Mary Ann Kelty - 1824 - 256 pages
...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... | |
 | Mary Ann Kelty - 1824 - 976 pages
...at the insipid manner in which time passed in the house we at present inhabit, — " But hail, thou 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...fiekle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy, Hail divinest Melaneholy, blaek, staid Wisdom's hue ; Blaek, but sueh as in esteem Prinee Meumon's sister might beseem, Or that... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 360 pages
...and numberless As the' gay motes that people the sun-beams, Or likest hovering dreams But hail thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail divinest Melancholy,...esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem, Or that starr'd Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The Sea-nymphs, and their pow'rs... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 310 pages
...the sun-beams ; Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensio?iers of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy...esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem, Or that starr'd Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The sea-nymphs, and their powers... | |
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