 | Daniel Scrymgeour - English poetry - 1850 - 596 pages
...pensioners* of Morphens' train. Bat hail, thon 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'crlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue. * • * Come, pensive nun, devout and pur«, Sober, stedfast,... | |
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 pages
...pensioners of Morpheus' train. 1 0 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 15 O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1851 - 282 pages
...fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. 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, fferlaid with black, staid wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 424 pages
...pensioners of Morpheus' train. Bnt, hail ! thou goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy ! 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 starr'd Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy Hail, divinest Melancholy ! G * Memnon's sister might beseem, Or that starr'd Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above... | |
 | Class-book - Poetry - 1852 - 152 pages
...fickle pensioners of Morpheus'1 train. 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 * * * * Come, pensive nun,... | |
 | Popular educator - 1852 - 842 pages
...thought came habitual sadness. " But hall, thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail divinest тг/апсЛо/у, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight ; • " Lives of the Queens of England, by Agnes Strickland/* vol. viii. p. Ю. And therefore to our... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...hail , thon Goddess , sage and holy, Hail divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright i To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'relaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue; :. Black , but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might... | |
 | John Milton, George Gilfillan - 1853 - 376 pages
...fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy ! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense...Wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister2 might beseem, Or that starr'd Ethiop queen3 that strove To set her beauty's praise... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 372 pages
...fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy ! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense...Wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister2 might beseem, Or that starr'd Ethiop queen3 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... 
