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" 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 25
by John Milton, John Dalton - 1791 - 66 pages
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 36

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1827 - 634 pages
...maiden draws near in the strength of unblemished chastity, and her courage waxes strong as she sees ' A sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night — ' and she calls upon Echo to tell her of the flowery cave which hides her brothers, and Echo betrays her...
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Bower of Taste, Volume 1

Katherine Augusta Ware - 1828 - 848 pages
...like a silver lining on the sky." The above reminds us of a similar line of Milton in his ' Cornus.' " Does a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night ?" The following lines are beautiful. " And I should love to go up to the sky, And course the heavens...
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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of ..., Part 1, Volume 13

Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 412 pages
...they had lined some hedges with musqueteers, they were totally dispersed. Clarendon. Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night ? Milton. A box lined with paper to receive the mercury that might be spilt. Boyle. The fold in the...
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Biographical Sketches in Cornwall ...

Richard Polwhele - Cornwall (England : County) - 1831 - 574 pages
...him; a hermitage lost its drearies of aspect ; and by the irradiations of social religion, " There did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night, And cast a gleam over these tufted groves." But the grand magnet to the lovers of solitude was always...
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Biographical Sketches in Cornwall ...: In Three Volumes, Volume 3

Richard Polwhele - 1831 - 556 pages
...a hermitage lost its dreariness of aspect ; and by the irradiations of social religion, " There did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night, And oast a gleam over these tufted groves." But the grand magnet to the lovers of solitude was always *...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 3

John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...vengeance, Would send a glist'ring guardian, if need were, To keep my life and honour unassail'd. 220 Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver...the night, And casts a gleam over this tufted grove : 225 I cannot halloo to my Brothers, but Such noise as I can make to be heard farthest I'll venture,...
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Waverley Novels, Volume 40

Walter Scott - 1832 - 412 pages
...send a glistering guardian, if need were, To keep my life and honour unassail'd. — Was 1 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."...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...vengeance, Would send a glist'ring guardian, if need were, To keep my life and honour nnassail'd. 220 Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver...the night, And casts a gleam over this tufted grove: 225 I cannot halloo to my brothers, but Such noise as I can make to be heard farthest I '11 venture;...
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Chromatography, Or, A Treatise on Colours and Pigments, and of Their Powers ...

George Field - Color - 1835 - 310 pages
...ttands off as gross At white from black, my eyes will scarcely see it. Was I deceived, or did a table cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night ?...cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night, And castt a gleam over this tufted grove. MILTON, COMUS. Most preposterous event, that draweth From my...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, Including Melodies, Ballads, Etc

Thomas Moore - 1835 - 440 pages
...But we may find some Blue "at home" Among the Blacks of Carolina — Or, flying to the Eastward, see "Did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night." Comvt. 8 It was pink spencers, I believe, that the imagination of the French traveller conjured up....
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