| John Smith - Painters - 1837 - 594 pages
...poetical exposition of the mystic rites of the sylvan deity, so emphatically described by Milton : " And universal Pan, knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance, led on the eternal spring." The principal group consists of two nymphs and two fauns (emblem of the four seasons),... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...quire apply ; airs, vernal airs, Breathing the smell of field and grove, attune The trembling leaves, while universal Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance, Led on th' eternal Spring. EVENING CONVERSATION BETWEEN ADAM AND EVE. Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in her... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...mountain-tops, that long retained The ascending gleam, are all one swimming scene, Uncertain if beheld. Sudden to heaven Thence weary vision turns ; where, leading soft The silent hours of love, with purest ray Sweet Venus shines ; and from her genial rise, When daylight sickens till... | |
| William Hone - Days - 1830 - 878 pages
...quire apply ; airs, vernal airs, Breathing the smell of field and grove, attune The trembling leaves, while universal Pan, Knit with the graces, and the hours in dance, ' 4&~ tne «t*rnal spring. ifrj Atherstone't Lcat Day» of Herculaneum. Soft tints. I wi'sweet May... | |
| John Milton - 1831 - 306 pages
...apply ; airs, vernal airs, Breathing the smell of field and grove, attune 265 The trembling leaves, while universal Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance, Led on the eternal Spring. Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairy... | |
| William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...mountain-tops, that long retain'd The ascending gleam, are all one swimming scene, Uncertain if beheld. Sudden to Heaven Thence weary vision turns; where, leading soft The silent hours of love, with purest ray Sweet Venus shines; and from her genial rise, When day-light sickens till... | |
| Jacques Delille - 1832 - 476 pages
...quire apply ; airs, vernal airs, Breathing the smell of field and grove, attune The trembling leaves, while universal Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance, Led on the' eternal spring. Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - Literature - 1833 - 392 pages
...dance Led on th' eternal spring.' , Paradise Lost. Thomson probably caught this strain of imagerj : : Sudden to heaven Thence weary vision turns, where leading soft The silent hours of love, with purest ray Sweet Venus shines.' Summer, v. 1692. Gray, in repeating this imagery, has... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1834 - 394 pages
...following imagery is undoubtedly Grecian ; but it is still embellished and modified by our best poets: "While universal Pan Knit with the graces and the...dance Led on th' eternal spring." — Paradise Lost. Thomson probably caught this strain of imagery: " Sudden to heaven Thence weary vision turns, where... | |
| Great Britain - 1834 - 404 pages
...nature to one great master spirit, whom they worshipped under the name of Pan ; to this Milton alludes: While universal Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance Led on the eternal spring. From a very early period, the various heathen nations instituted festivals in honour... | |
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