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" 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 7
by John Milton - 1900 - 130 pages
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Paradise regained. An account of Cowper's writings, relating to Milton. A ...

William Hayley - 1810 - 418 pages
...holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy! Whose saintly visage is too bright TO hit the sense of human sight, e2 And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black,...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...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Life of the Author, Volume 2

John Milton - 1813 - 270 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 our weaker view 1 S O'er-laid with black, staid Wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister...
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Discoveries in hieroglyphics, and other antiquities, in ..., Volumes 3-4

Robert Deverell - 1813 - 596 pages
...sedate character of countenance ascribed to him in the first note. Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view 1 15 O'erlaid with black staid wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memmon's sister might...
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Discoveries in hieroglyphics, and other antiquities, in ..., Volumes 3-4

Robert Deverell - 1813 - 588 pages
...sedate character of countenance ascribed to him in the first note. Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view 15 O'erlaid with black staid wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memmon's sister might...
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Elegant extracts in poetry, Volume 2

Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...sage and holy! Hail, divine-.! Melancholy! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense othuman sight ; And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid...esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem : Or that starr'd Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The sea-nyntnhs, and their powers...
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Poems on Various Subjects: Selected to Enforce the Practice of Virtue, and ...

Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 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...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...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 10

Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1818 - 624 pages
...Hail, thou goddess sage and holy, H«il, H ivines I Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'trJaid with black, sti.iJ wisdom's hue. // Ptnseroso. Contemplative melancholy is again alluded to...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 7

Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 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...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...
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Spirit of the English Magazines, Volume 4

1819 - 504 pages
...lines — Hail thou goddess sag* and holy. Hail divines! Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'er laid with black, staid wisdom's hue. // Penseroso. Contemplative melancholy is again alluded to...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 1

John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy j Whose saintly visage is too bright e, and Contemplation join'd, How many, rack'd with honest passions, droop In deep reti stiiid Wisdom's hue; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem. Or that starr'd...
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