 Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course; they on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds.  The Works of the English Poets: Milton - Page 31by Samuel Johnson - 1779Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1864 - 584 pages
...nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course : they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear : At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds. Thus incorporeal spirits to smallest forms Reduced their shapes immense, and were at large, 790 Though without number still, amidst... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 708 pages
...nearer to the earth 784 Wheels her pale course: they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear: At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds. Thus incorporeal spirits to smallest forms Reduced their shapes immense, and were at large, 700 Though without number still, amidst... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 pages
...nearer to the earth wheels her pale course ; they, on their mirth and dance intent, with jocund music charm his ear ; at once with joy and fear his heart rebounds. J. MILTON 1 135 CONTEMPLATION IN A SOLEMN GROVE A VOICE, than human more, the abstracted ear of fancy... | |
 | John Milton, Alex Monfries - 1867 - 120 pages
...and nearer to the earth 785 Wheels her pale course ; they, on their mirth Intent, with jocund music charm his ear : At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds ; Thus incorporeal spirits to smallest forms Reduced their shapes immense, and were at large, 790 Though without number still, amidst... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations - 1867 - 752 pages
...nearer to the earth Wheels her pale conrse, they on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear ; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds. Milton, PL i. 781. In days of old, when Arthur fill'd the throne, Whose acts and fame to foreign lands... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course ; they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear ; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds. Paradise Lost, Book I. PRETENCE. How is the world deceived by noise and show ! Alas ! how different,... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Phillips - English poetry - 1868 - 632 pages
...nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course, they, on their mirth and dance 786 Intent, with jocund music charm his ear ; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds. Thus incorporeal spirits to smallest forms Reduced their shapes immense, and were at large, Though without number, still amidst... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1869 - 266 pages
...nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course : they on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds." We can only give another instance ; though we have some difficulty in leaving off. " What a pity,"... | |
 | John Milton - 1870 - 436 pages
...nearer to the earth 785 Wheels her pale course ; they on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear ; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds. Thus incorporeal spirits to smallest forms Reduc'd their shapes immense ; and were at large, 790 Though without number still amidst... | |
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