 | Richard Maxwell - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 454 pages
...eyes" [The Life and Art of Albrecht Diirer, 163]. Panofsky also cites Milton's // Penseroso: [His] saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human...weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid wisdom's hue. The background of Melencolia I has something of this quality too; a rainbow and a comet shine eerily... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - Fiction - 1993 - 390 pages
...alludes to this story in his Penseroso, where he addresses Melancholy as the goddess, sage and holy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense...Wisdom's hue. Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem, Or that starred Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...Morpheus'63 train. 10 But, hail! thou Goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy! Whose saindy visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight,...Wisdom's hue; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister64 might beseem, Or that starred Ethiop queen65 that strove To set her beauty's praise... | |
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But hail! thou Goddess sage and holy! Hail, divinest Melancholy! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's... 
