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" There, held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, till With a sad leaden downward cast Thou fix them on the earth as fast... "
History of English literature, tr. by H. van Laun - Page 436
by Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871
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Nature of the mind

John Mason Good - Natural history - 1834 - 398 pages
...and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing with majestic train, And sable stole of cypress lawn Over thy decent shoulders drawn — Come, but...state, With even step, and musing gait, And looks comfnercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes, There, held in holy passion, still...
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The Works of William Cowper, Esq., Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and ...

William Cowper - 1836 - 416 pages
...devout and pure, Sober, steadfast, and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain Flowing with majestic train ; And sable stole of Cyprus lawn Over thy decent...Come, but keep thy wonted state With even step, and pensive gait. H. Pers. 31. '* Now came still evening on, and twilight grey Had in her sober livery...
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Translation from Madame de La Mothe-Guion. The task. Tirocinium. John Gilpin ...

William Cowper - 1836 - 404 pages
...devout and pure, Sober, steadfast, and demure. All in a robe of darkest grain Flowing with majestic train ; And sable stole of Cyprus lawn Over thy decent...Come, but keep thy wonted state With even step, and pensive gait. H. Pers. 31. 14 Now came still evening on, and twilight grey Had in ber sober livery...
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The Book of Gems: Chaucer to Prior

Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 336 pages
...and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Following with majestick train, And sable stole of Ciprus lawn, Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step, and musing gate, And looks commereing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes : There held in holy...
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The Book of Gems: Chaucer to Prior

Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 390 pages
...and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Following with majestick train, And sable stole of Ciprus lawn, Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step, and musing gate, And looks commereing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes : There held in holy...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes and a Life of the Author, Volume 2

John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing with majestic train, And sable stole of cyprus lawn, 35 Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come, but keep thy...with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes : 40 There held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, till With a sad leaden downward cast...
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Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...devout and pure, Sober, stedfast, and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain. Flowing with majestic Extremely dull, before he died." " Can we the Drapier...have left tlu-m lúr his betters: We had a hundred ; There, held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, till With a sad leaden downward cast...
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The North American Review, Volume 53

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1841 - 578 pages
...pour out its generous and solemn heart in snatches of earnest melody. We would say to his muse ; " Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step and...with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes." And she is coming again, in a form from which the best things may be expected. A late number of the...
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The North American Review, Volume 53

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1841 - 600 pages
...pour out its generous and solemn heart in snatches of earnest melody. We would say to his muse ; " Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step and...the skies, •Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes." And she is coming again, in a form from which the best things may be expected. A late number of the...
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Select Works of the British Poets, in a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...devout and pure, Sober, stedfost, and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing with majestic hn Aikin eyea ; There, held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, till With a sad leaden downward...
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