 Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots ; Their port was more than human, as they stood : I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i  Comus: A Mask - Page 42by John Milton - 1808 - 89 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 526 pages
...the globe can compass soon, Swifter than the wandering moon. SIIAKSPEARE. 2. I took it for a fairy vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i' th' plighted clouds. MILTON'S Comus. 3. And now they throng the moonlight... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 540 pages
...We the globe can compass soon, Swifter than the wandering moon. SHAKSPEARE. 2. I took it for a fairy vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of- the rainbow live, And play i' th' plighted clouds. MILTON'S Comus. 3. And now they throng the moonlight... | |
 | English fiction - 1848 - 588 pages
...vision," Sir William Ouseley thinks, will give the best idea of a Persian poofs impersonation of a Peri. " Their port was more than human ; as they stood I took it for a fairy vision Of some gay creatures of the clement, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play... | |
 | 1856 - 666 pages
...I present you with the above extracts, simply as specimens of poetic beauty. I took it for a fairy vision Of some gay creatures of the element That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i' the plighted clouds. The brothers, while anxiously searching in the dark... | |
 | English literature - 1849 - 470 pages
...charmed me; it sufficed that the flowers dazzled by their various tints, that the birds resembled — " Some gay creatures of the element. That in the colours of the rainbow live. And play i' the plighted clouds," that the stars glittered brighter than my sister's... | |
 | Women's periodicals, English - 1861 - 378 pages
...of sight. Their voluntary union into flocks was noticed long since by our poets. Milton sings — " Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i' thi flighted clouds. And their slow stilly movement and silent recognition... | |
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 pages
...But time. The phrase introduces an swinke sore, &c. That crawls along the side of yon small hill, 295 Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots. Their...creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, 300 And play i' the plighted clouds. I was awe- struck, And, as I passed, I worshipped... | |
 | Cam river - English poetry - 1851 - 380 pages
...his supper sat; I saw them under a green mantling vine, That crawls along the side of yon small hill, Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots. Their...was more than human as they stood : I took it for a fairy vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 350 pages
...supper sat; I saw them under a green mantling vine That crawls along the side of yon small hill, $95 Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots ; Their...creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, soo And play i' th' plighted clouds. I was awe-struck, And as i pass'd, I worshipp'd... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...supper sat ; I saw them under a green mantling vine, That crawls along the side of yon small hill. ith their whole united powers In fight withstand me single and unarm 'd, Nor in the house colors of the rainbow live, 300 And play i' the plighted clouds. I was awe-struck, And, as I post,... | |
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