 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 Milton - 1853 - 344 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 - 1853 - 380 pages
...Memnon's sister2 might beseem, Or that starr'd Ethiop queen3 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,4 long of yore,- ...... The solitary Saturn5 bore His daughter she ; in Saturn's... | |
 | 1854 - 456 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...queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The Sea-Nymphs, and their powers ofFeni Yet thou art higher far descended ; Thee bright-haired Vesta,... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 332 pages
...hap, 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,t that strove To set her beauty's praise above The sea-nymphs, and their powers... | |
 | George Croly - 1854 - 426 pages
...hail, thou Goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To lii: the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker...Wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Mcmnon's sister might beseem; Or that starred Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 564 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...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-haired... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 452 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...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-haired... | |
 | Olive Gilbert, Sojourner Truth - 1991 - 372 pages
...should seem only to add an appropriate charm—as Milton says of his Penseroso, whom he imagines " Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister...queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The sea-nymph's." Bub though Sojourner Truth has passed away from among us as a wave of the sea, her... | |
 | Edward Le Comte - 1991 - 168 pages
...wrote and that he would not have wanted us scurrying after. Take the reference in "II Penseroso" to "that starred Ethiop queen that strove / To set her beauty's praise above / The seanymphs, and their powers offended." Here is "that" meaning famous again — Cassiopeia, turned... | |
 | Richard Maxwell - 1992 - 454 pages
...Albrecht Diirer, 163]. Panofsky also cites Milton's // Penseroso: [His] 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. The background of Melencolia I has something of this quality too; a rainbow and a comet shine eerily... | |
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