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
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...motes that people the sun-beams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. *}/ @# B eR Iºe/ q1 P ~ % Bt G O z Kl j m # 21hh$ b 4&r\I2...7 Ib + ". /V?eGi $ b +Z # =~{nA ' _pv U'crlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might... | |
| English poetry - 1844 - 110 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 line ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 pages
...that people the sunbeams ; B 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, O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...motes that people the sun-beams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners2 of Morpheus' train. 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 sister3 might... | |
| Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...that people the sunbeams; 8 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, Cferlaid with black, staid wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might... | |
| Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...that people the sunbeams; 8 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, Cftrlaid with black, staid wisdom's hue; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might... | |
| Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 280 pages
...that people the sunbeams; s 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, Oerlaid with black, staid wisdom's hue; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem,... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1845 - 490 pages
...introduction to Milton's ' II Penseroso.' " Hence, vain deluding joys, The brood of folly without father bred! But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest...visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight," &c. The same writer thus moralises on the life of man, in a set of similes, as apposite as they are... | |
| Eliphalet L. Rice - American literature - 1846 - 432 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...of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view, Overlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might... | |
| 1846 - 436 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... | |
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