 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...soul sitting in thine eyes : There, held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, till With tlic Sun, In Aries, twelve degrees, or more, had run j * th' Ephemeris : For Art may err, @/+ cl liefest, with thee bring, Him that yon soars on golden wing, Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne, The... | |
 | England - 1821 - 778 pages
...was when he has to allude to such. It is a part of the sublime invocation in his 1'enseroso : — " And add to these, retired Leisure, That in trim gardens takes his pleasure." Warton's note on these lines is, in our opinion, hardly warranted ; the passage he ates from Du Oartas... | |
 | Scotland - 1821 - 800 pages
...was when he has to allude to such. It is a part of the sublime invocation in his Penseroso :— . " And add to these, retired Leisure, That in trim gardens takes his pleasure." Warton's note on these lines is, in our opinion, hardly warranted ; the passage he cites from Du Bartas... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...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 on the earth...Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with Gods doth diet, And hear the Muses in a ring Aye round about Jove's altar sing ; And add to these retired Leisure, That... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 662 pages
...disposed as after a comfortable meal, to relish 'that sublime passage of our immortal poet, And bring with thee calm peace and quiet ; Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet; And hear the Muses, in a ring, Aye round about Jove's altar sing. I am tempted to believe, that, in general,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 468 pages
...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 on the earth...Muses in a ring Aye round about Jove's altar sing : 45 Epigrams, Ixxiii. Dryden, by a most ridiculous misapprehension, in his translation of the first... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...leaden downward cast, Thou fir them on the earth as fast : And join with theecalm Peace, and Ouiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet. And hears...That in trim gardens takes his pleasure But first and chiefesc, with thee bring, Him that yon soars on «olden wing, Guiding the fiery -wheeled throne, The... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...rapt soul sitting in thine eyes: There held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, till With to shade, By god-like poets venerable made: Here...fromCowley'stongue. O early lost ! what tears the river sh Ay round about Jove's altar sing : And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens takes his... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 472 pages
...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 on the earth as fast : And join with tbee calm Peace and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with Gods doth diet, And hears the Muses in a ring... | |
 | Robert Dodsley, Isaac Reed, Octavius Gilchrist - English drama - 1825 - 430 pages
...Mount thy thoughts upon the wings, &c.] In Milton's II Petueroso, 1. 51, are the following lines : " But first, and chiefest, with thee bring, ' Him that yon soars on golden wing, Guiding the fiery- wheeled throne, The cherub Contemplation." Upon which Bishop Newton observes, " I cannot find... | |
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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 sing... 
