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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... "
British Theatre - Page 47
by John Bell - 1791
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...Attired with stars, we shall forever sit, Triumphing over Death, and Chance, and thee, O Time. L'ALLEORO. HENCE, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest...shrieks, and sights unholy ! Find out some uncouth cell, AVhere brooding darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night raven sings; There under ebon shades...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 3

John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...conjectures that the right reading may be ' the studious cloister's pale.' ie enclosure. L'ALLEGRO. HENCE, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest...forlorn, 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights Find out some uncouth cell, [unholy, Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous And the night raven...
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A Grammar of Elocution

Rev. Samuel Wood - 1833 - 224 pages
...poetical description of what is sublime or awful. Of this we have an instance in Milton's L' Allegro: Hence, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest...cell, Where brooding darkness spreads his jealous \rings, And the night raven sings ; There under ebon shades, and low - brow'd rocks, As ragged as thy...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...last he rose, and twitch'd his mantle blue: To-morrow to fresh woods, and pastures new. L' ALLEGR 0. HENCE, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest...and sights unholy ! •Find out some uncouth cell, 5 Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the mght-raven sings; There under ebon shades,...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 2

John Milton - 1834 - 498 pages
...prophetic strain. These pleasures Melancholy give, 175 And I with thee will choose to live. L'ALLEGRO. HENCE, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest...shrieks, and sights unholy, Find out some uncouth cell, 5 Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night raven sings ; There under ebon shades,...
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Chromatography, Or, A Treatise on Colours and Pigments, and of Their Powers ...

George Field - Color - 1835 - 310 pages
...Black, fearful, comfortlest, and horrible. SHAKSPEARE. The blacke and doleful ebonie. SPENSER'S ELEGY. Hence, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest...jealous wings, And the night-raven sings; There, under ebon shades, and low-brow'd rocks, As ragged as thy locks, /// dark Cimmerian desart ever dwell. MILTON,...
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The Book of Gems: Chaucer to Prior

Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 336 pages
...thought, and faney. In foree of style no one, we think, hss ever approached him. MILTON. L'ALLBGRO. HENCE, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest...brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night raven sings; There under ebon shades, and low brow'd roeks, As ragged as thy loeks, In dark Cimmerian...
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The American Orator's Own Book: Or, The Art of Extemporaneous Public ...

Oratory - 1836 - 362 pages
...requires a lower tone of voice, and a sameness nearly approaching to a monotone, to give it variety. Hence ! loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest...brooding darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night raven sings ; There under ebon shades and £ino-browed rocks, As ragged as thy locks, In dark...
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The Book of Gems: Chaucer to Prior

Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 390 pages
...beauty of description, thought, and faney. In foree of style no. one, we think, has ever approached him. In Stygian cave forlorn, 'Mongst horrid shapes, and...brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night raven sings ; There under ebon shades, and low brow'd roeks, As ragged as thy loeks, In dark...
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Principles of elocution

William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 pages
...like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again. L'ALLEGRO ; OR, THE MERRY MAN.— Milton. Hence, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest...brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night raven sings ; There, under ebon shades, and low-brow'd rocks, As rugged as thy locks, In dark...
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