 | Philip Koch - Philosophy - 1994 - 400 pages
...,/Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born," but "II Penseroso" exclaims, "Hail, divines) Melancholy!/ Whose saintly visage is too bright/ To hit the sense of human sight." (Both poems are found in Spencer, op. cit., pp. 556-60) 32. Cited in Vickers, op. cit., p. xiv. 33.... | |
 | John Read - Science - 1995 - 260 pages
...design likewise 'leans forward massively' with darkened face, because, in Milton's words, her saindy visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight,...weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue. Number, Harmony, and Music Measurement is dependent upon number, which therefore enters, with measurement,... | |
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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... 
