 | John Bell - English poetry - 1788 - 628 pages
...train. 10 But hail thou Goddess, sage and holy, Hail divinest Melancholy, r Whose saintly visige is toe bright To hit the sense of 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... | |
 | John Wolcot - English poetry - 1804 - 180 pages
...hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of MORPHEUS' train. But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy ! Hail, divinest MELANCHOLY ! Whose saintly visage is...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 MEMXOK'S sister might... | |
 | E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pages
...dreams The fickle pensioners of -Morpheus' train. But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy ! Hail, diviuest Melancholy! Whose saintly visage is too bright To...sense of human sight. And therefore to our weaker view O'crlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hur; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnou's sister might... | |
 | American literature - 1804 - 496 pages
...melancholy," we are told, that to adapt her visage to our weaker view, it is Oe'r laid vsitb ¿lad; staid wisdom's hue.... Black, but such as, 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.... The poet could not but... | |
 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...likeliest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpbeus' train. But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy! Hail, divinest Melancholy ! Whose saintly visage is...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... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 302 pages
...motes that people the sun-beams ; Or likest hovering dreams, But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy ! Hail, divinest Melancholy! Whose saintly visage is...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... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...likest hov'ring dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou goddess sage and holy ! Hail, divinest Melancholy ! Whose saintly visage is...of human sight; And, therefore, to our weaker view, OVrlaid with black, staid wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might... | |
 | English poetry - 1810 - 308 pages
...hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train, But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy ! Hail, divinest Melancholy! Whose saintly visage is...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 564 pages
...likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. Unt hail, thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy ! Whose saintly visage is...sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue ; lilack, but such as in esteem Prince Mention's sister might... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...likest hovering dreams, The h'ckle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, 02 And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue; Black, but such as in... | |
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Hail, divinest Melancholy ! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore, to our weaker view, 15 O'relaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem, Or that starr'd... 
