| British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddess! sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy ! "Whose saintly visage is too bright To...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... | |
| William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy ! Hail divinest Melancholy ! Whose saintly visage is too bright, To...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... | |
| John Aikin - Literature, Modern - 1807 - 706 pages
...and may, perhaps, be new to many of your readers and those of Milton, Permit me to quote the passage. Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the 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 Menmon'8 sister might... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...dreams. The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail thou Goddess, sage and holy, Hail divinest udg feel' s I it y , O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue ; Slack, but ntch as in esteem Aiinee Memnon's sister might... | |
| British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morphens' train. But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy ! Whose saintly visage is too bright To...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 Memuon's sister might... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 468 pages
...Mids. N. Dr. act ii. 8. 1. of the faery queen, But hail thou Goddess, sage and holy, Hail divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To...sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid wisdom's hue ; This was in consequence of Qu. Elizabeth's fashionable establishment... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou godde.«, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy! ЛУЪозе saintly visage is too bright To hit the 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... | |
| Mary Ann Kelty - 1824 - 256 pages
...passed in the house we at present inhabit, _«? But hail, thoo goddess, sage and holy; Hail, divinest Melancholy ! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight," — he repeated, raising his fine, expressive eyes as he spoke, and looking so in unison with the words... | |
| Mary Ann Kelty - 1824 - 976 pages
...passed in the house we at present inhabit, — " But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy ; Hail, divinest Melancholy ! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight," — he repeated, raising his fine, expressive eyes as he spoke, and looking so in unison with the words... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...fiekle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy, Hail divinest Melaneholy, O'erlaid with blaek, staid Wisdom's hue ; Blaek, but sueh as in esteem Prinee Meumon's sister might... | |
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