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... The Poetical Works of John Milton - Page 281by John Milton - 1834Full view - About this book
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...dreams, The tickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. UNI hail, thou goddess, sage and holy! Hall, dirlnest Melancholy! Whose saintly visage is too bright To...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 sister might... | |
| John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. 10 But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail, cHvincst Melancholy! Whose saintly visage is too bright To...sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view 15 O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue; . Black, but snch as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 390 pages
...motes that people the sunbeams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy, Hail divinest...sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'relaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might... | |
| John Milton - 1838 - 496 pages
...drive homewards our Billy sheep : Lycon, lett's rise .' 193 To-morrow] Fletcher's P. Island, c. vi. 8. 77. IL PENSEROSO. HENCE, vain deluding joys, The brood...sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view IG O'erlaid with black, staid wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might... | |
| John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...To-morrow] Fletcher's P. Island, c. vi. s. 77. ' To-morrow shall ye feast in pastures new.' Warton. IL PENSEROSO. HENCE, vain deluding joys, The brood...sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view 15 O'erlaid with black, staid wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might... | |
| Fitz-Greene Halleck - English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...notes that people the sunbeams ; Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest...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 sister might... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divincst of God, pronounc'd O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might... | |
| John Milton - 1843 - 364 pages
...and numberless As the gay motes that people the sun-beams, Or likest hovering dreams, IL PENSEROSO. But, hail ! thou goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest...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 sister might... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...notes that people the sunbeams ; Or likest hovering dreams. The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. E O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...notes that people the sunbeams ; Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue , Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might... | |
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