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
| John Aikin - 1826 - 840 pages
...But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy I 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... | |
| 1826 - 310 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... | |
| Benjamin Humphrey Smart - 1826 - 242 pages
...and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy ! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of mortal sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue ; Come pensive Nun, devout and pure, Sober, stedfast and demure, All in that robe of darkest grain... | |
| William Enfield - 1827 - 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... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 842 pages
...progress through the road of heaven starpawd. U. Under the shady roof Of branching elm starproof. U. That starred Ethiop queen, that strove To set her beauty's praise above The sea-nymphs. Id. A boundless continent. Dark, waste, and wild, under the frown of night Starless... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...UNI hail, thou goddess, sage and holy! Hall, dirlnest Melancholy! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to...queen, that strove To set her beauty's praise above The sea-nymphs, and their powers offended : Yet then art higher far descended ; Thee bright-haired... | |
| John Milton - 1832 - 354 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 is O'erlaid with black, staid wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might... | |
| John Milton - 1834 - 498 pages
...staid wisdom's hue ; 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 20 The Sea-Nymphs, and their pow'rs offended : Yet thou art higher far descended ; Thee bright-hair'd Vesta, long of yore, To solitary... | |
| John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail, cHvincst Melancholy! 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 snch as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might... | |
| 1836 - 558 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...beseem, Or that starred Ethiop queen* that strove To set het beauty's praise above The sea-nymphs, and their powers offended : Yet thou art higher far descended... | |
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