 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...  L'allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas - Page 7by John Milton - 1900 - 130 pagesFull view - About this book
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...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...esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem ; Or that starr'd Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The sea-nymphs, and their powers... | |
 | 1822 - 284 pages
...Memnon's sister might beseem ; Or that starr'd Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The sea-nymphs, and their powers offended : Yet thou art higher far descended : Thee, bright-hair'd Vesta, long of yore, To solitary Saturn bore ; His daughter she; in Saturn's reign, Such... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...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...esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem, Or that starr'd Ethiop queen, that strove To set her beauty's praise above The sea-nymphs, and their pow'rs... | |
 | John Aikin - 1807 - 706 pages
...your readers and those of Milton, Permit me to quote the passage. Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to...Wisdom's hue; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Menmon'8 sister might beseem, Or that starred Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...thou godde.«, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy! ЛУЪозе saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to...esteem. Prince Memnon's sister might beseem, Or that starr'd Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauties' praisp above The Sea-nymphs, anil their powers... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...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...Wisdom's hue; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memuon's sister might beseem, Or that starr'd Ethiop queen, that strove To set her beauty's praise... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...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...weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue ; Slack, but ntch as in esteem Aiinee Memnon's sister might beseem, Эr that starr'd Ethiop queen that... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 468 pages
...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...weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid wisdom's hue ; This was in consequence of Qu. Elizabeth's fashionable establishment of a band of military courtiers... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 472 pages
...is ex' cursive, Melancholy is attached " to its object." T. Warton. 16. fferlaid with black, staid Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem, Or that starr'd Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above 30. The Sea-Nymphs, and their pow'rs... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy, Hail divinest Melaneholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright for Thomas Tegg blaek, staid Wisdom's hue ; Blaek, but sueh as in esteem Prinee Meumon's sister might beseem, Or that... | |
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