 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
 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 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... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1858 - 516 pages
...of Folly, without father bred! How little you bestead, Or fill the fix-ed mind with all your toys I 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. Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, Sober, steadfast, and... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...that people the sunbeams;' Or likeliest 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, (ferlaid with blade, staid wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1859 - 420 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... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1861 - 734 pages
...father bred! How little you bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys! Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick...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 2 might... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1861 - 356 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... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1879 - 456 pages
...in his invocation, expresses the true character of that thoughtfulness which the poet loves : — " 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." She is the daughter of Vesta (genius) and of Saturn, whose... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...Task-Master's eye. (1. 1—14) FF; HelP; InPS; LiTB; NAEL-1; NAs; PoE; SeCePo; Son // Penseroso 15 nveil Her awful face: (1. 82-86) 29 Nor second He,...He saw: but blasted with excess of light, Closed hi O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue; (1. 1 1 -16) 16 Come pensive Nun, devout and pure, Sober,... | |
 | Richard Maxwell - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 454 pages
...eyes" [The Life and Art of Albrecht Diirer, 163]. Panofsky also cites Milton's // Penseroso: [His] 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. The background of Melencolia I has something of this quality... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - Fiction - 1993 - 390 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, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might... | |
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