 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
 | Gem book - 1846 - 398 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'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem, Prince Memnon's sister might... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...motes that people the sun-beams, Or likcst hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. d ask you pardon. Ferd. You have it ; For I account...are your cubs Duck. WhomJ Ferd. Call them your chi O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue ; Illack, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might... | |
 | John Milton - 1848 - 154 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... | |
 | Frederick Charles Cook - 1849 - 144 pages
...motes that people the sun-beams; Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' 5 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. 1 The Lydians, a people In Asia Minor. 3 The fable of Orpheus.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail divincst ord chamberlain, • I pray you,' quoth he, ' show them that it secmeth me O'crlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1849 - 416 pages
...dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddess sage and holy, Hail, diviriest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To...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... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 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, O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem, • Prince Memnon's sister... | |
 | John Milton - 1850 - 704 pages
...people the sun-beams; Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But bail, thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy!...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... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...the sunbeams ; Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, tliuu Goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy,...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... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - English poetry - 1850 - 596 pages
...the sun-beams ; Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners* of Morphens' train. Bat hail, thon goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy...sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'crlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue. * • * Come, pensive nun, devout and pur«, Sober, stedfast,... | |
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