 | Samuel Johnson - 1787 - 88 pages
...in Camus: " Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould " Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment I " Sure something holy lodges in that breast, " And with...the vocal air " To testify HIS hidden residence." HENLEY. 72. —dose it IB—] Is the reading of the quarto. STEE VENS. 73. wahe Diana with a hymn;]... | |
 | John Bell - English drama - 1791 - 294 pages
...thou be translated to the skies, And give resounding grace to all Acav'n's harmonies. Comus aside. ~\ Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such...breast, " And with these raptures moves the vocal air goo " To testify his hidden residence : " How sweetly did they float upon the wings " Of silence through... | |
 | English drama - 1797 - 468 pages
...thou be translated to the skies, Andgi-ve resounding grace to all heav'n's harmonies. Comus aside.] Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such...breast, " And with these raptures moves the vocal air 303 " To testify his hidden residence : " How sweetly did they float upon the wings " Of silence through... | |
 | John Milton, Thomas Warton - English drama - 1799 - 148 pages
...be translated to the skies, And give resounding grace to all heaven's harmonies. Enter COMUS. Com. Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such...fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness, till it smil'd! I have oft heard My mother Circe with the Sirens three, Amidst the flow'ry-kirtled Naiads,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 456 pages
...heavenly tune, which none can ke-ar " Of human mould, with groii unpurged ear" Malone. Thus, in Comus" Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould " Breathe...with these raptures moves the vocal air " To testify Hts hidden residence." Henley. The old reading in immortal souls is certainly right, and the whole... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 460 pages
...heavenly tune, which none can hear " Of human mould, with gross unpurged ear." Maloue~ Thus, in Comus: " Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould " Breathe...the vocal air " To testify HIS hidden residence." Henley. The old reading in immortal souls is certainly right, and the whole line maybe well explained... | |
 | John Milton - 1808 - 96 pages
...Comus. COMUS, Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment ? 845 Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with...empty-vaulted night, At every fall, smoothing the raven-down Of darkness, till it smil'd ! I have oft heard My mother, Circe, with the Syrens three,... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1809 - 332 pages
...ventured, " for my new enliven'd spirits Prompt me," and they perhaps are not far oft', Comus. (Aside.) " Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with...sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence, thro' the empty-vaulted night. At ev'ry fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness, 'till it smil'd;... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1834 - 558 pages
...— Hamlet, Act v. Scene i. or Milton's lines on the sounds of the lady's voice, in Comus :•— ' How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence...smoothing the raven down Of darkness, till it smiled.' May not these figures be taken in succession upon the mind's eye, and yet so far linked together, or... | |
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Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence. 
