 And in sweet madness robbed it of itself, But such a sacred and home-felt delight, Such sober certainty of waking bliss, I never heard till now.  Comus: A Mask - Page 20by John Milton - 1858 - 90 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Eliphalet L. Rice - American literature - 1846 - 432 pages
...through the empty -vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled. Such a sacred and home-felt delight, Such sober certainty of waking bliss I never heard till now. I'll speak to her, And she shall be my queen. Hail, foreign wonder ! Whom certain these rough shades... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...murmur'd soft applause. Yet they in pleasing slumber lull'd the sense» And in sweet madness robb'd [Praae of Chattily.] [From Comtu.] Tie Chastity, my brother, Chastity ; She that has that is clad in... | |
 | John Milton - 1847 - 604 pages
...baleful drugs, Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul, And lap it in Elysium : Scylla wept, And chid her barking waves into attention And fell...murmured soft applause : Yet they in pleasing slumber, lull'd the sense, And in sweet madness, robb'd it of itself! But such a sacred and home-felt delight,... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 540 pages
...unrestrain'd. SOSTERVILE'S Chase. 5. How beat our hearts, big with tumultuous joy ! SOMERVILE'S Chase. 6. But such a sacred and homefelt delight, Such sober certainty of waking bliss, I never felt till now. MILTON. 7. Whate'er the motive, pleasure is the mark : For her the black assassin draws... | |
 | Hannah More - 1847 - 446 pages
...heard, to be accepted, though tacitly, to be referred to parents who I knew had no will but hers, Was such a sacred and homefelt delight, Such sober certainty of waking bliss As I ne'er felt till now. During the remainder of the day, I found no means of speaking to Mr. Stanley.... | |
 | James Cook Richmond - Boston (Mass.) - 1847 - 32 pages
...mixture of earth's mould " Breathe such divine, enchanting ravishment. " For such a sacred and hoinefelt delight, " Such sober certainty of waking bliss " I never heard till now." She spake : — My name is Truth. My dwelling is Amid Hesperian gardens, on whose banks, Bedewed with... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Slavery - 1848 - 430 pages
...murmur'd soft applause : Yet they in pleasing slumber lull'd the sense, And in sweet madness robb'd it of itself ; But such a sacred and home-felt delight,...certainty of waking bliss, I never heard till now." Lines 244 - 264. VOL. i. 2 "Spirit. — At last a soft and solemn-breathing sound Rose like a steam... | |
 | Henry Howard, Frank Howard - Aesthetics, Comparative - 1848 - 398 pages
...baleful drugs, Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium ; Scylla wept, And chid her barking waves into attention, And fell Charybdis murmured soft applause." Comus — Milton. purchased by Sir John Soane. His contributions to the next year's exhibition were... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1849 - 432 pages
...murmur'd soft applause : Yet they in pleasing slumber lull'd the sense, And in sweet madness robb'd it of itself ; But such a sacred and home-felt delight,...certainty of waking bliss, I never heard till now." Lines 244-264. VOL. I. 2 "Spirit. — At last a soft and solemn-breathing sound Rose like a steam of... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...Naiades, Culling their potent herbs and baleful drugs, Who as they sung, would take the prisoned soul And chid her barking waves into attention, And fell...certainty of waking bliss, I never heard till now. I'll speak to her, And she shall be my queen. SONNETS. ON HIS BLINDNESS When I consider how my light... | |
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