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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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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Prefaces

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...
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Elegant Extracts: Book V. Pindaric, Horatian, and other odes ; Book VI ...

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...
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The Practice of Elocution, Or A Course of Exercises for Acquiring the ...

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...
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The Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English ...

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...
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 21

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...
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

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...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 3

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...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 2

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...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton

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...
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The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins

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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