 I saw them under a green mantling vine That crawls along the side of yon small hill, Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots. Their port was more than human, as they stood ; I took it for a fairy vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That...  Comus: A Mask - Page 24by John Milton - 1858 - 90 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1837 - 684 pages
...gratify the pride of superiour understanding ; of poets, those who dwell but in faerv visions, i> " Gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play in the plighted clouds." Such, in one word, are of every class of men those who, in admiration of splendid... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...vine, That crawls along the side of yon small hill, 295 Placking ripe clusters from the tender shoots; Their port was more than human as they stood: I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, .That in the colours of the rainbow live, 300 And... | |
 | William Gilmore Simms - Indians of North America - 1835 - 242 pages
...tale, full of machinery, and without a purpose save the imbodiment to the mind's eye of some of those " Gay creatures of the element, That in the colours...rainbow live, And play i' the plighted clouds"— a distinguished writer of this country gravely remarks, in a leading periodical,—"Magic is now beyond... | |
 | Gift books - 1835 - 254 pages
...beings having no sympathy or connexion with the passions and prejudices of ordinary humanity : — Gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play in the plighted clouds. We never enter his Studio, from the crowded street, peopled as it is with the... | |
 | English poetry - 1836 - 558 pages
...vine, That crawls along the side of yon small hill, Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots. Their port was more than human, as they stood : I...it for a fairy vision Of some gay creatures of the clement, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i' the plighted clouds. I was awe-struck,... | |
 | Elizabeth Washington Wirt - Flower language - 1837 - 264 pages
...habltant Of yonder gorgeous palaces of air, Built by the genii in the evening sky i . . SP Chase. l took it for a fairy vision Of some gay creatures of...the rainbow live, And play i' the plighted clouds Milton. Say from what far and sunny shore, Fair wonder, thou dost rove Lest what I only should adore,... | |
 | Rebecca Hey - 1837 - 386 pages
...vine, That crawls along the side of yon small hill, Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots ; Their port was more than human as they stood. I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the elements. That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 496 pages
...clusters from the tender shoots ; Their port was more than human, as they stood : 1 took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, 300 And play i' th' plighted clouds. I was awe-struck, And as I pass'd, I worshipp'd ; if those you... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - American poetry - 1839 - 158 pages
...THE HS 1839 «*• •r -"•••• WITH . E WIEIE HE XT -YORK HAH.PEB. i- BB-OTHERS 1839 FANNY, "A fairy vision Of some gay creatures of the element,...That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play in the plighted clouds." MILTON. FItOM THE EDITION OF 1831. Entered, according to Act of Congress,... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...clusters from the tender shoots ; Their port was more than human, as they stood : 1 took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, soo And play i' th' plighted clouds. I was awe-struck, And as I pass'd, I worshipp'd ; if those you... | |
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