 | Hippolyte Taine - Literary Criticism - 1871 - 554 pages
...silver lining on the night, And casts a gleam over this tufted grove.' 1 She calls her brothers : ' At last a soft and solemn-breathing sound Rose like...steam of rich distill'd perfumes, And stole upon the air,t across the ' violet-embroider'd vale,' to the dissolute god whom she enchants. He comes disguised... | |
 | John Milton - 1871 - 312 pages
...steeds That draw the litter of close-curtain'd Sleep. At last a soft and solemn-breathing sound 555 Rose like a steam of rich distill'd perfumes, And stole upon the air, that even Silence Was took ere she was ware, and wish't she might Deny her nature, and be never more,... | |
 | John Milton - 1871 - 92 pages
...steeds, That draw the litter of close-curtain'd sleep ; At last a soft and solemn-breathing sound 555 Rose like a steam of rich distill'd perfumes, And stole upon the air, that even Silence Was took ere she was ware, and wish'd she might Deny her nature, and be never more,... | |
 | John Milton - 1872 - 568 pages
...sudden silence Gave respite to the drowsy frighted steeds That draw the litter of close-curtain'd Sleep, At last a soft and solemn-breathing sound Rose like...of rich distill'd perfumes, And stole upon the air, that even Silence Was took ere she was ware, and wish't she might Deny her nature, and be never more... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Phillips - 1872 - 614 pages
...drowsy-flighted steeds, That draw the litter of close-curtain'd sleep ; At last a soft and solemn breathing sound Rose like a steam of rich distill'd perfumes, And stole upon the air, that even Silence Was took ere she was ware, and wish'd she might Deny her nature, and be never more,... | |
 | John Milton - 1873 - 606 pages
...' , , ' Gave respite to the drowsy frighted steeds, That draw the litter of close-curtain'd sleep; At last a soft and solemn-breathing sound Rose like...of rich distill'd perfumes, And stole upon the air, that even Silence Was took ere she was ware, and wish'd she might Deny her nature, and be never more,... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1873 - 470 pages
...over this tufted grove."1 She calls her brothers iu " a soft and solemn -breathing sound," which " rose like a steam of rich distill'd perfumes, and stole upon the air," 2 across the " violet-embroider'd vale," to the dissolute god whom she enchants. He comes disguised... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 758 pages
...silence Gave respite to the drowsy frighted steeds, That draw the litter of close-curtain'd Sleep ; At last a soft and solemn-breathing sound Rose like...of rich distill'd perfumes, And stole upon the air, that even Silence Was took ere she was ware, and wish'd she might Deny her nature, and be never more,... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 518 pages
...; but her exquisite singing is most dwelt on. Thus, of her Echo-Song in the enchanted wood : — " At last a soft and solemn-breathing sound Rose like a steam of rich distilled perfumes, And stole upon the air, that even Silence Was took ere she was ware, and wished... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 136 pages
...steeds, That draw the litter of close-curtain'd sleep ; At last, a soft and solemn-breathing sound 555 Rose like a steam of rich distill'd perfumes, And stole upon the air, that even Silence Was took ere she was 'ware, and wish'd she might Deny her nature, and be never more,... | |
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Sleep; At last a soft and solemn-breathing sound Rose like a steam of rich distill'd perfumes, And stole upon the air... 
