Come, pensive Nun, devout and pure, Sober, steadfast, and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing with majestic train, And sable stole of cypress lawn Over thy decent shoulders drawn. L'allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas - Page 8by John Milton - 1900 - 130 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Milton - 1782 - 40 pages
...solitary Saturn bore; His daughter she (in Saturn's reign, a 5 Such mixture was not held a stain.) Oft in glimmering bowers and glades He met her, and in secret shades Of woody Ida's inmost grove, While yet there was no fear of Jove. 3o Come pensive Nun, devout and pure, Sober, stedfast, and demure,... | |
| John Bell - 1788 - 628 pages
...solitary Saturn bore ; His daughter she (in Saturn's reign, *5 Such mixture was not held a stain) , Oft in glimmering bowers and glades He met her, and in secret shades Of woody Ida's inmost grove, While yet there was no fear of Jove. 30 Come pensive Nun, devout and pure, Sober, stedfast, and demure,... | |
| John Milton, Thomas Warton - 1799 - 148 pages
...To solitary Saturn bore ; His daughter she, (in Saturn's reign Such mixture was not held a stain,) Oft in glimmering bowers and glades He met her, and in secret shades Of woody Ida's inmost grove, While yet there was no fear of Jove. Come, pensive Nun, devout and pure, Sober, stedfast, and demure,... | |
| Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1802 - 152 pages
...56 His daughter she (in Saturn's reignSuch mixture was not held a stain} Oft in glimmering. bow'rs and glades, He met her, and in secret shades Of woody Ida's inmost grove, While yet there was no fear of Jove." " But hail, them holy goddess, Melancholy, whose splendour would... | |
| William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...yore, To solitary Saturn bore ; His daughter she (in Saturn's reign Such mixture was not held a stain). Oft in glimmering bowers and glades He met her, and in secret shades Of woody Ida's inmost grove , W'hile yet there was no fear of Jove. Come , pensive nun , devout and pure , Sober , stedfast and... | |
| 1804 - 496 pages
...yore, To lolitary Saturn bore ; His daughter she (in Saturn's reign Such mixture was not held a stain) Oft in glimmering bowers and glades He met her, and in secret shades Of woody Ida's inmost grove, While yet there was ne fear of Jove.... Often as this passage has been recited by me, it never occurred... | |
| Peter Pindar - 1804 - 180 pages
...bore; His daughter she (in SATURN'S reign Such mixture was not held a stain). Oft in glimmering bow'rs and glades He met her, and in secret shades Of woody IDA'S inmost grove, While yet there was no fear of JOVE. Come, pensive Nun, devout and pure, All in a robe of darkest grain,... | |
| John Wolcot - 1804 - 180 pages
...bore; His daughter she (in SATURN'S reign Such mixture was not held a stain). Oft in glimmering bow'rs and glades He met her, and in secret shades Of woody IDA'S inmost grove, While yet there was no fear of JOVE. Come, pensive Nun, devout and pure, Sober, stedfast, and demure,... | |
| E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pages
...daughter she (in Saturn's reign Such mixture was not held a stain). Oft in glimmering how'rs and glade* He met her, and in secret shades Of woody Ida's inmost grove, While yet there was no fear of Jove. Come, pensive nun, devote and pare. Soher, •i••, li.' i... | |
| 1806 - 408 pages
...yore To solitary Saturn bore ; His daughter she (in Saturn's reign Such mixture was not held a stain) Oft, in glimmering bowers and glades, He met her, and in secret shades Of woody Ida's inmost grove, While yet there was no fear of Jove. Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, Sober, stedfast, and demure,... | |
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