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... Beauties of the British Poets ... - Página 68por George Croly - 1850 - 395 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| William Enfield - 1808 - 434 páginas
...people the sun-beams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail thou Goddess, sage and holy, Hail divinest Melancholy,...of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view, OVrlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem, Prince Memnon's sister might... | |
| English poetry - 1809 - 302 páginas
...and numberless As the gay motes that people the sun-beams ; Or likest hovering dreams, But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy ! Hail, divinest Melancholy...esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem, Or that star'd Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The sea nymphs, and their pow'rs offended... | |
| British poets - 1809 - 512 páginas
...hov'ring dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morphens' train* But hail, thou goddess sage and holy ! il.il!, divinest Melancholy ! Whose saintly visage is too...esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem ; Or that starr'd Etjiiop queen, that strove For other beauties praise above The sea-nymphs, and these powers... | |
| John Milton - 1810 - 540 páginas
...likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddess, sage and hoiy, Hail, divinest Melancholy! Whose saintly visage is...esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem, Or that starr'd Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The Sea-Nymphs, and their powers... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 páginas
...lifcest hovering dreams, __. The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. I'lt ii.nl, thou goddess, gage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy ! Whose saintly...Wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince M emnon's sister might beseem, Or that starr'd Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise... | |
| John Milton - 1810 - 414 páginas
...the sun-beams ; Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou. Goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy...visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, »2 / I a Sad leaden Downward cast fe them on the earth as fast : °[n wi*h thce calm Peace, an that... | |
| William Hayley - 1810 - 418 páginas
...the sun-beams ; Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy!...visage is too bright TO hit the sense of human sight, e2 And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue; Black, but such as in... | |
| John Milton - 1813 - 270 páginas
...sun-beams ; Or likest hovering dreams. The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. 10 But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy...sense of human sight. And therefore to our weaker view 1 S O'er-laid with black, staid Wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister... | |
| Robert Deverell - 1813 - 596 páginas
...adopting in preference the grave sedate character of countenance ascribed to him in the first note. Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view 1 15 O'erlaid with black staid wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memmon's sister might... | |
| Robert Deverell - 1813 - 588 páginas
...adopting in preference the grave sedate character of countenance ascribed to him in the first note. 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 Memmon's sister might... | |
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