 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
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...sunbeams; 8 Or likeliest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy!...of human sight, And therefore, to our weaker view, Cftrlaid with black, staid wisdom's hue; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...sunbeams; 8 Or likeliest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy!...of human sight, And therefore, to our weaker view, Cferlaid with black, staid wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 670 pages
...II Penseroso.' " Hence, rain deluding joys, The brood of folly without father bred! But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest melancholy,...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... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...people the sunbeams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy ! Hail, divinest Melancholy...praise above The Sea-Nymphs, and their powers offended : Yet thou art higher far descended ; Thee bright-haired Vesta, long of yore, To solitary Saturn bore... | |
 | Gem book - 1846 - 398 pages
...the sun-beams, 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 starr'd Ethiope queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The sea-nymphs, and their powers... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 402 pages
...sunbeams ;8 Or likeliest 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 Mack, staid Wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem,9 N 2 Or... | |
 | Eliphalet L. Rice - American literature - 1846 - 432 pages
...people the sunbeams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy!...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 - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...the sun-beams, Or likcst hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail divinest Melancholy,...weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue ; Illack, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem ; Or that starr'd Kthiop quceii... | |
 | John Milton - 1848 - 154 pages
...the sun-beams; 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 starr'd Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The Sea-Nymphs, and their pow'rs... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1849 - 416 pages
...dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddess sage and holy, Hail, diviriest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To...praise above The sea-nymphs, and their powers offended : Yet thou art higher far descended, Thee bright haired Vesta long of yore To solitary Saturn bore... | |
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