| Geography - 1867 - 964 pages
...whence it was thought came habitual sadness. " But hail, thon goddess, sage and holy. Hail, diviuest 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." Viltoit, " H Pentmn." Ifeia, of Greek origin (JUTO, pronounced... | |
| John Milton - 1782 - 40 pages
...zu den verschiednen Absichten die nämlichen Bilder, und dan nämlichen Gang im Gedicht beibehält. Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view 1 5 O'erlaid with black, staid wisdom's hue. Black, but such as in esteem, Prince Memnon's sister might... | |
| John Bell - English poetry - 1788 - 628 pages
...human sight, And therefore to our weaker view , , ,. . jg O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's bue } Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister...Or that starr'd Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauties' praise above • so The sea-nymphs, and their pow'rs offended t Yet thou art higher far descended,... | |
| John Milton, Thomas Warton - English drama - 1799 - 148 pages
...Whose faintly 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...Or that starr'd Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauties' praise above The sea-nymphs, and their pow'rs offended: Yet thou art higher far descended;... | |
| Richard Lovell Edgeworth - English poetry - 1802 - 152 pages
...Whose saintly image 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...Or that starr'd Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauties praise above The sea-nymphs, and their pow'rs offended ; Yet thou art higher far descended,... | |
| American literature - 1804 - 496 pages
...melancholy," we are told, that to adapt her visage to our weaker view, it is Oc'r laid with blaci; staid wisdom's hue.... Black, but such as, in esteem,...queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The Sea Nymphs.... The poet could not but be aware, that to give his goddess the complexion of an African,... | |
| Peter Pindar - English poetry - 1804 - 180 pages
...and numberless As the gay motes that people the sun-beams, But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy I Hail, divinest MELANCHOLY ! Whose saintly visage is...sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdem's hue : Black, but such as in esteem Prince MEMNON'S sister might... | |
| William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...Whose saintly visage is too bright Tn hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view , O'erlaid with black , staid Wisdom's hue ; Black ,...Prince Memnon's sister might beseem , Or that starr'd Ethiope queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The sea-nymphs , and their powers offended... | |
| John Wolcot - English poetry - 1804 - 180 pages
...pensioners of MORPHEUS' train. But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy ! Hail, divinest MELAXCHOLY ! 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 MEMNOS'S sister might... | |
| English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...people the sun-beams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail them 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, I'rince Memnon's sister might... | |
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