 | Collection - 1856 - 120 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 Memmon's sister might... | |
 | John Eagles - Drawing - 1856 - 416 pages
...uses the pearly atmosphere, but likewise dips her pencil in the clouds, and if there be anything " Whose saintly visage is too bright, To hit the sense of human sight," she therefore glazes them over — " To our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid wisdom's hue." Pictor.... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 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 Milton - 1857 - 664 pages
...But hail thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too hright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view, O'erlaid with black, staid wisdom's huo ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's1 sister might... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1858 - 516 pages
...Or fill the fix-ed mind with all your toys I But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy! Hail, divinest Melancholy ! Whose saintly visage is too bright, To...of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view, O'erlaid with black, staid wisdom's hue. Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, Sober, steadfast, and... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 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...of human sight. And therefore, to our weaker view, (ferlaid with blade, staid wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1859 - 420 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... | |
 | Stanley Fish - Education - 1980 - 412 pages
...of distinctions) we are pressured to make. That pressure is felt as soon as we hear, "Hail divinest Melancholy, / Whose Saintly visage is too bright / To hit the sense of human sight" (12—14). These lines turn on a paradox, and it is in the nature of a paradox that a reader who recognizes... | |
 | William Bridges Hunter (Jr.) - 1986 - 260 pages
...spiritual truth that is too bright for the carnal eye: But hail thou Goddes, sage and holy, Hail divmest Melancholy, Whose Saintly visage is too bright To hit the Sense of human sight; And therfore to our weaker view, Ore laid with black staid Wisdoms hue. (11-16) And to counter the scandalous... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...LiTB; NAEL-1; NAs; PoE; SeCePo; Son // Penseroso 15 But hail thou Goddess, sage and holy. Hail divinest hat rode sublime Upon the seraph-wings of Ecstasy...He saw: but blasted with excess of light, Closed hi O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue; (1. 1 1 -16) 16 Come pensive Nun, devout and pure, Sober,... | |
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But hail, thou goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight... 
