 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's i A c9& @ j [0}*)xu,{,l1 ] A )7 2d ɣ r L!Dp s | Bh ;e(@w 5?< C Q D '% ƙ h [ Ɋ En Y `c o m beauty's praise above The sea-nymphs, and their powers offended : Yet thou art higher far descended... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 350 pages
...And therefore to our weaker view i3 O'erlaid with black, staid wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as ii esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem, Or that starr'd Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above so The Sea-Nymphs, and their pow'rs offended : Yet thou art higher far descended... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'relaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue; :. Black , but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem, Or that starr'd Ethiope queen that strove To set her beautie's praise above The sea-nymphs , and their pow'rs offended... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 pages
...sight ; And therefore to our weaker view O'crlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue; Black, but such ш in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem; Or 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.... | |
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 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 sister might beseem, Or that starred Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The Sea-Nymphs, and their powers... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - Children's literature, English - 1854 - 332 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* sister might beseem, Or that starr'd Ethiop queen,t that strove To set her beauty's praise above The sea-nymphs, and their powers offended, Yet... | |
 | American poetry - 1854 - 456 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 sister might beseem, Or that starred Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The Sea-Nymphs, and their powers... | |
 | 1855 - 540 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 pow'rs offended; Yet thou art higher far descended... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 64 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... | |
 | John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 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 sister might beseem, Or that starred Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The sea-nymphs, and their powers... | |
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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... 
