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... The Poetical Works of John Milton - Page 216by John Milton - 1852Full view - About this book
| Geography - 1867 - 964 pages
...whence it was thought came habitual sadness. " But hail, thon goddess, sage and holy. Hail, diviuest melancholy .' Whose saintly visage is too bright To...weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue." Viltoit, " H Pentmn." Ifeia, of Greek origin (JUTO, pronounced mot-ta), signifying after, and denoting... | |
| John Milton - 1782 - 40 pages
...zu den verschiednen Absichten die nämlichen Bilder, und dan nämlichen Gang im Gedicht beibehält. Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view 1 5 O'erlaid with black, staid wisdom's hue. Black, but such as in esteem, Prince Memnon's sister might... | |
| John Bell - English poetry - 1788 - 628 pages
...human sight, And therefore to our weaker view , , ,. . jg O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's bue } Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister...Or that starr'd Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauties' praise above • so The sea-nymphs, and their pow'rs offended t Yet thou art higher far descended,... | |
| John Milton, Thomas Warton - English drama - 1799 - 148 pages
...pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail divinest Melancholy, Whose faintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight,...Or that starr'd Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauties' praise above The sea-nymphs, and their pow'rs offended: Yet thou art higher far descended;... | |
| Richard Lovell Edgeworth - English poetry - 1802 - 152 pages
...uniform. •' But hail, them goddess sage and holy, Hail divinest Melancholy, J. Whose saintly image is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And...Or that starr'd Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauties praise above The sea-nymphs, and their pow'rs offended ; Yet thou art higher far descended,... | |
| John Wolcot - English poetry - 1804 - 180 pages
...pensioners of MORPHEUS' train. But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy ! Hail, divinest MELAXCHOLY ! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense...Wisdom's hue : Black, but such as in esteem Prince MEMNOS'S sister might beseem, Or that starr'd Ethiop Queen that strove To set her beauties' praise... | |
| American literature - 1804 - 496 pages
...melancholy," we are told, that to adapt her visage to our weaker view, it is Oc'r laid with blaci; staid wisdom's hue.... Black, but such as, in esteem,...queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The Sea Nymphs.... The poet could not but be aware, that to give his goddess the complexion of an African,... | |
| Peter Pindar - English poetry - 1804 - 180 pages
...and numberless As the gay motes that people the sun-beams, But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy I Hail, divinest MELANCHOLY ! Whose saintly visage is...therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdem's hue : Black, but such as in esteem Prince MEMNON'S sister might beseem, Or that starr'd Ethiop... | |
| E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pages
...hail, thou goddess, sage and holy ! Hiiil, divinest Melancholy! Whose saintly visage is too hright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with hlack, staid Wisdom's hue-; Black, hut such as in esteem Prince Meumon's sister might heseem : Or that... | |
| William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...that people the sun-beams , Or likest hovering dreams ! The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train-. But hail , thou Goddess , sage and holy , Hail , divinest Melancholy ! Whose saintly visage is too bright Tn hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view , O'erlaid with black , staid Wisdom's... | |
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