 Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night? I did not err: there does a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night, And casts a gleam over this tufted grove.  Comus: A Mask - Page 25by John Milton, John Dalton - 1791 - 66 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...Would send a glistering guardian, if need were, To keep my life and honour unassailM. Was I dcceiv'd, re, though I do not believe that Bellarmine said a t 1 did not err ; there docs a sable cloua Turn forth her silver lining on the night, And casts a gleam... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...Would send a glist'ring guardian, if need were, To keep my life and honour unassailed. Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining...cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night, And cast a gleam over this tufted grove. I caanot halloo to my brothers, but Such noise as I can make to... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1851 - 352 pages
...Would send a glist'ring guardian, if need were, To keep my life and honour unassail'd. Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining...night, And casts a gleam over this tufted grove.' " Then her brothers, while seeking her, utter a fine tribute to her, in the words : — " ' I do not... | |
 | Goold Brown - English language - 1851 - 324 pages
...will be chiefest, shall be servant of all Remember what thou wert, and be humble. Was I deceived ? or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night 1 — MilloTi. EXERCISE X.— PROMISCUOUS. Changed to a worser shape thou canst not be. For him through... | |
 | Reuben Harvey - 1851 - 128 pages
...renewed, And with fresh flowrets hill and valley nulled." Paradise Lost, Book rt. " Was I deceived, or did a sable Cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the Night." Milton's Comus. 1 Hills ' in the former, should have been given a capital as well as ' Cloud ' in the... | |
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 pages
...send a glistering guardian, if need were, To keep my life and honour unassailed. 220 Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night 1 I did not err, there does a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night, And casts a gleam... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1851 - 414 pages
...send a glistering guardian, if need were, To keep my life and honour unagsail'd — Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud, Turn forth her silver lining on the night ?' " The rest has escaped me," said the reciter ; " and I marvel I have been able to remember so much."... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 256 pages
...Would send a glist'ring guardian if need were To keep my life and honour uuassail'd. Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining...night, And casts a gleam over this tufted grove." " Comus" is a fine poem on which to hang homilies ; and we much more readily hang our homilies than... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 424 pages
...Would send a glistering guardian, if need were. To keep my life and honour unassail'd. Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud • • Turn forth her silver...the night, And casts a gleam over this tufted grove : Such noise .as I can make to be heard farthest I '11 venture ; for my new-enliven'd spirit.s Prompt... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...vengeance, Would send a glistering guardian, if need were, To keep my life and honor unossail'd. 220 Was I cuts a gleam over this tufted grove : I carsnot halloo to my brothers, but Such noise as I can make... | |
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