 Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step and musing gait, And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes: There, held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, till With a sad leaden downward cast, Thou fix them...  Milton's Paradise lost, books i. and ii., Comus, Lycidas, Il penseroso, and ... - Page 82by John Milton - 1874Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1782 - 40 pages
...immer in heiliger Entzückung gehalten, vergiß dich selbst zum Marmor, bis du mit einem traurigen, ai With a sad leaden downward cast Thou fix them on the...as fast: And join with thee calm peace, and quiet, Spare fast, that oft with Gods doth diet, 46 And hears the Muses in a ring Ay round about Jove's altar... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1788 - 628 pages
...commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes i 40 There held in holy passion sail, Forget thyself to marble, till With a sad leaden downward cast Thou fix them on the earth as fast i And join with thee calm Peace, and Quiet, 45 Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet, And hears... | |
 | John Milton, Thomas Warton - English drama - 1799 - 148 pages
...even step, and musing gait, And looks commersing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes: There held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to...as fast : And join with thee calm Peace, and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet, And hears the Muses in a ring Ay round about Jove's altar... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1799 - 648 pages
...quality of some individuals; and that common readers rather derive opinions than taste from them. " Spare fast, that oft' with Gods doth diet, And hears the Muses in a ring, Ay round about Jove's teiv.ple sing." In speaking of the Epic poet, in one of his Latin composltionSi... | |
 | 1799 - 616 pages
...adapted to young xvriters, and which can boast the authority of Milton in more than one passage ; thus, " Spare fast, that oft' with Gods doth diet, And hears the Muses in a ring, Ay round about Jove's temple sing." ; In speaking of the Epic poet, in one of his Latin compositions,... | |
 | Peter Pindar - English poetry - 1804 - 180 pages
...even step, and musing gait, And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes; There held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to...as fast : And join with thee calm Peace, and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with Gods doth diet, And hears the Muses in a ring Aye round about JOVE'S altar... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...step , and musing gait, And looks commercing with the skies , Thy wrapt soul sitting in thine eyes ; There , held in holy passion still , Forget thyself...as fast : And join with thee calm Peace and Quiet , Spare Fast , that oft with Gods doth diet , And hears the muses in a ring , Aye round about Jove's... | |
 | E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pages
...skios. Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes: There led in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marhle, till With a sad leaden downward cast Thou fix them...the earth as fast: And join with thee calm Peace and Quier, Spare Fast, that oft wit h gods doth diet, And hear the Muses in a ring Aye round ahout Jove's... | |
 | John Wolcot - English poetry - 1804 - 180 pages
...soul sitting in thine eyes ; ,. There held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, till \Vith a sad leaden downward cast Thou fix them on the earth...as fast: And join with thee calm Peace, and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with Gods doth diet, And hears the Muses in a ring Aye round about JOVE'S altar... | |
 | American literature - 1804 - 496 pages
...contemplatist need not surely be sad. The companions, or attendants of melancholy, are, Peace an<! quiet. Spare fast, that oft with gods doth diet, And hears the muses in a ring Ay round about Jove's altar sing ; And add to these, retired leisure That in trim gardens takes his... | |
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