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" Hence, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born In Stygian cave forlorn 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy ! Find out some uncouth cell, Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night-raven sings... "
Comus: A Mask - Page 45
by John Milton, John Dalton - 1791 - 66 pages
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The British anthology; or, Poetical library, Volumes 1-2

British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...PENSEROSO, ETC. L'ALLEGR®, PENSEROSO. Kn 3El'-OH,]»2-1i ItY .JOHN' SHABFE, tOHBtfM MILTON. L'ALLEGRO. HENCE, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born, In Stygian cave forlorn, [unholy I 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights Find out some uncouth cell, [wings, Where...
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...1608-74. L'ALLEGRO. HENCE, loathed Melaneholy, Of Cerberus and blaekest Midnight bom, In Stygian eave uneouth eell, M 'here brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night-raven sings ; There...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 2

John Milton - 1826 - 360 pages
...increase : His letters are deliver'd all and gone, Only remains this superscription. XIII. L'ALLEGRO. HENCE loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest...spreads his jealous wings, And the night-raven sings ; There under ebon shades, and low-brow'd rocks, As ragged as thy locks. But come thou goddess fair...
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The Practice of Elocution, Or A Course of Exercises for Acquiring the ...

Benjamin Humphrey Smart - Elocution - 1826 - 242 pages
...strode. MILTON. 40. Opening of L' Allegro. GAIETY OF MANNER : 1 Scorn and Aversion ; " Delight and Love. 'Hence! loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus, and blackest...brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night raven sings ; There under ebon shades and low-browed rocks, As ragged as thy locks, In dark Cimmerian...
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The Art of Reading, Or, Rules for the Attainment of a Just and Correct ...

Elocution - 1826 - 82 pages
...follows, is among the finest beauties of composition. EXAMPLE. Hence ! loathed Melancholy, Of Cerbefiis, and blackest Midnight born, In Stygian cave forlorn,...brooding darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night raven sings ; There, ur.der ebon shades and low-browed rocks, As ragged as thy locks, In dark...
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Elegant Extracts: Book V. Pindaric, Horatian, and other odes ; Book VI ...

English poetry - 1826 - 310 pages
...of Greece : Return in all thy simple state ; Confirm the tales thy sons relate. Collins. L ALLEGRO. HENCE, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born, In Stygian cave forlorn, [unholy ! 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights Find out some uncouth cell, Where brooding...
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Winter's tale. Comedy of errors. Macbeth. King John

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 464 pages
...soul O'er which his melancholy sits on brood.' Milton also, in L' Allegro, desires Melancholy to — ' Find out some uncouth cell Where brooding darkness spreads his jealous wings.' Srooded may be used for brooding, as delighted for delighting, and discontented for discontenting,...
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The Book of Nature, Volume 3

John Mason Good - Natural history - 1826 - 454 pages
...dejection, gloom, vapours, moroseness, heaviness, and melancholy; all of them begotten, like the last, In Stygian cave forlorn, 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy. 18 Such is the origin of melancholy, as given by Milton, in his Allegro, or ode to Mirth; but in his...
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The Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English ...

William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 412 pages
...laws : O let each Muse's fame increase ! O bid Britannia rival Greece ! WAR TON CHAP. XVI. L' ALLEGRO. HENCE loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus, and blackest...cave forlorn, 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sighs unholy, Find out some uncouth cell, Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings And the...
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces, in Prose and Verse, for the ...

William Scott - Elocution - 1829 - 420 pages
...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. II.— I? Allegro, or the Merry Man. — MILTON. HENCE, loathed Melancholy ; Of Cerberus and blackest midnight born, In Stygian cave forlorn, 'JVlongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy Find out some uncouth cell, Wheie brooding...
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