 | Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...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...Or that starr'd Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The sea-nymphs, and their powers offended : Yet thou art higher far descended... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 366 pages
...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...that starr'd Ethiop queen, that strove To set her beauty's praise above The Sea-Nymphs, and their powers offended ; Yet thou art higher far descended... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, stiiid Wisdom's many stand Around the death-bed of their dearest friends, And point the parting angui Etliiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The sea-nymphs, and their powers offended... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...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...Or that starr'd Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The sea-nymphs, and their powers offended : Yet thou art higher far descended... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...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...that starr'd Ethiop queen, that strove To set her beauty's praise above The sea-nymphs, and their pow'rs offended : Yet thou art higher far descended... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...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...starr'd Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauties' praisp above The Sea-nymphs, anil their powers oiSjnded : Yet thou art higher far descended, Thee bright-hair'd... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 472 pages
...is ex' cursive, Melancholy is attached " to its object." T. Warton. 16. fferlaid with black, staid Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister...Or that starr'd Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above 30. The Sea-Nymphs, and their pow'rs offended: Yet thou art higher far descended,... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memuon's sister might beseem, Or that starr'd Ethiop queen, that strove To set her beauty's praise above The sea-nymphs, and their powers offended; Yet thou art higher far descended... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...weaker view O'erlaid with blaek, staid Wisdom's hue ; Blaek, but sueh as in esteem Prinee Meumon's beauty's praise above The sea-nymphs, and their pow'rs offended : Yet thou art higher far deseended.... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 310 pages
...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...Or that starr'd Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The sea-nymphs, and their powers offended : Yet thou art higher far descended:... | |
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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... 
