| English literature - 1820 - 608 pages
...and spiritless. Can any moital mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with...wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven -down Of darkness, till it smil'd ! I have oft heard My mother Circe... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...divine enchanting ravishment ? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures'moves titions Sense from Thought divide ! And middle natures, how they long to join, tlie wings Of silence, through the empty vaulted night. At every fell smoothing the raven-down Of darkness,... | |
| 1821 - 274 pages
...passions are all of the same bent as the aspirings of his soul ; they point Heaven-ward ! " CHAPTER IX. " How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven-down Of darkness till it smiled ! I took it for a fairy vision Of... | |
| Charles Edward Dodd - German poetry - 1821 - 614 pages
...the evening, and the swelling sounds of the organ had a fine effect in the dark stillness around— How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven-down Of darkness till it smiled— It was night... | |
| Charles Edward Dodd - 1821 - 626 pages
...evening, and the swelling sounds of the organ had a fine effect in the dark stillness around — . i How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven-down Of darkness till it smiled— It was night... | |
| John Milton - Bible - 1823 - 220 pages
...Enter COMUS. Comns. Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment! Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with...they float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness, till it smiled ! I have oft... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...harmonies. Corma. Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment? 245 Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with...wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night, 250 At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smil'd! I have oft heard My mother Circe... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 414 pages
...6. 1. This play was first acted in 1 600. T Wat tun. Breathe such divine inchanting ravishment? 945 Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with...wings Of Silence, through the empty-vaulted night, 250 At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smil'd! I have oft heard &c.] Before these... | |
| British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...Enter COMUS. Comus. Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment ? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with...wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness, till it smiled ! I have oft heard My mother Circe,... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...ggracetoallHeav'n'sharmonies. Connu. Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment} / empty vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smil'd ! I have oft... | |
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