 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
 | 1855 - 540 pages
...motes that people the sun-beams 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 Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 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'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might... | |
 | American poetry - 1855 - 458 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'erlaid with black, staid wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - American poetry - 1855 - 452 pages
...motes that people the sunbeams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus9 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 Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...Valour, or Passionate Madman." Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest...of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view, O'erlaid with Clack, staid wisdom's hue; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's 1 sister might... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1855 - 610 pages
...affeetion. John Forfs Lover1s Melaneholy. But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest melaneholy! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense...of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view, O'erlaid with blaek, staid wisdom's hue. Mlltm's II Penseroso. These pleasures, melaneholy, give, And... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - Animals, Mythical - 1855 - 508 pages
...alludes to this story in his Penseroso, •where he addresses Melancholy as the " goddess, sage and holy, 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, hut such as in esteem Prince Memnou's sister might... | |
 | Collection - 1856 - 120 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'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memmon's sister might... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 578 pages
...motes that people the sunbeams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. peasants, those to whom we yield Glories unsought,...the fathers of the field ; And these who take from O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might... | |
 | William Dowling - Literary landmarks - 1857 - 412 pages
...motes that people the sun-beams : Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest...of human sight, And therefore, to our weaker view, O'crlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might... | |
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