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" And in sweet madness robb'd it of itself; But such a sacred, and home-felt delight, Such sober certainty of waking bliss I never heard till now. "
Specimens of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices, and ... - Page 311
by Thomas Campbell - 1853 - 749 pages
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British Theatre, Volume 11

John Bell - 1791 - 294 pages
...drugs, " Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul " And lap it in Elysium : Scylla wept, 310 " And chid her barking waves into attention, " And fell...Yet they in pleasing slumber lull'd the sense, " And sweet in madness robb'd it of itself ; " But such a sacred and home-felt delight, " Such sober certainty...
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Bell's British Theatre: Comus, by J. Milton. ... Love in a village, by I ...

1797 - 468 pages
...drugs, " Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul " And lap it in Elysium : Scylla wept, 310 " And chid her barking waves into attention, " And fell...Yet they in pleasing slumber lull'd the sense, " And sweet in madness robb'd it of itself ; " But such a sacred and home-felt delight, " Such sober certainty...
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Comus: A Mask: Presented at Ludlow Castle 1634, Before the Earl of ...

John Milton, Thomas Warton - 1799 - 148 pages
...Sirens three, Amidst the flow'ry-kirtled Naiads, Culling their potent herbs and baleful drugs, Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul, And lap it...her, And she shall be my queen. Hail, foreign wonder! Whom certain these rough shades did never breed, Unless the goddess that in rural shrine Dwell'st here...
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The poetical works of John Milton, with the life of the author ..., Volumes 3-4

John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...Naiades . Cujling their potent herbs, and baleful drugs, "Who as they sung, would take the pnson'd soul And lap it in Elysium ; Scylla wept, And chid...attention, And fell Charybdis murmur'd soft applause : Xc.t they in pleasing slumber lull'd the -.<•:.&, 260 And in sweet madness robb'd it of itself;...
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A Collection of Farces and Other After-pieces, which are Acted at ..., Volume 2

Mrs. Inchbald - 1809 - 332 pages
...down Of darkness, 'till it smil'd; I have oft heard My mother Circe, with the Sirens three, \V ho, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul. And lap it...her barking waves into attention, And fell Charybdis inurinur'd soft applause j Yet they in pleasing slumber lull'tl the sense. And sweet in madness robb'd...
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Paradise Lost and Regained: With the Latin and Other Poems of John ..., Volume 4

John Milton - 1810 - 414 pages
...three, Amidst the flowery-kirtled Naiades, Culling their potent herbs and baleful drug«.; Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul, And lap it...her, And she shall be my queen. Hail, foreign wonder! Whom certain these rough shades did never breed, Unless the Goddess that in rural shrine Dwell'st here...
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Cowper's Milton [the poetical works, with life, notes and tr. by W. Cowper ...

John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...and baleful drugs; Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul, And 'lap it in Elysium : Scyllg. wept, And chid her barking waves into attention, And...her, And she shall be my queen. Hail, foreign wonder} Whom certain these rough shades did never breed, Unkss the Goddess that in rural shrine Dwell'st here...
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Illustrations of the Lives and Writings of Gower and Chaucer: Collected from ...

Henry John Todd - 1810 - 468 pages
...from sweet sounds, in his Comus ; where the lady's singing is compared to that of the Syrens; JfSo, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul, And lap it...certainty of waking bliss, I never heard till now ! — Jn the further avowal of his gratification, Gower*s lover says, And eke in other wise also, Full...
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Illustrations of the Lives and Writings of Gower and Chaucer: Collected from ...

Henry John Todd - 1810 - 470 pages
...where the lady's singing is compared to that of the Syrens; Who, as they sung, would take the prisorid soul, And lap it in Elysium : Scylla' wept, And chid...pleasing slumber lull'd the sense, And in sweet madness rolb'd it of itself; But such a sacred and home-felt delight, Such sober certainty of waking bliss,...
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Cowley, Denham, Milton

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pages
...baleful drugs; Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul, And lap it in Elysium: Scyllawept, And chid her barking waves into attention, And fell...the sense, And in sweet madness robb'd it of itself ; 261 But such a sacred and home-felt delight, Such sober certainty of waking bliss, ( never heard...
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