Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence... The Poetical Works of John Milton - Page 87by John Milton - 1853Full view - About this book
| 1909 - 502 pages
...harmonies 1 Comus. Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine inchanting ravishment? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with...wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled ! I have oft heard My mother Circe... | |
| James Phinney Baxter - 1915 - 790 pages
...the following: — Can any mortal mixture of Earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with...wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled! I oft have heard My mother Circe... | |
| Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 pages
...music, with his characteristic mutation into sensuous imagery, as of someone's hair being stroked: How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night At every fall smoothing the Raven doune Of darkness till it smil'd . . . [249-52] And from here we... | |
| Bill Moore - 1987 - 180 pages
...the wind-grieved Appenine. At the foot of your rotten-runged, rat-riddled stairs. Milton did it, too: How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night. Charles Kingsley: The night -rack came rolling up, ragged and brown. Thomas Hardy once more: Your face,... | |
| R. B. Onians, Richard Broxton Onians - 1988 - 606 pages
...ff.) marvels at the Lady's song, at that in her which can 'Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment? Sure something holy lodges in that breast And with...moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence'. 1 IL n, 213. * See eg //. I, 541-50; Od. xv, 445. * P. 14. 4 Malinowski, Argonauts of the Western Pacific,... | |
| James Turner - 1993 - 368 pages
...hand, Comus can imagine the Lady residing within her body as a person within a house: Sure somthing holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testifie his hidd'n residence. (lines 246-8) But the emblematic function of the Lady's virginity depends... | |
| John Milton - 1994 - 630 pages
...harmonies! COMUS Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with...the vocal air To testify his hidden residence. How sweedy did they float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night, 250 At every fall... | |
| Liam Hudson, Bernadine Jacot - 1995 - 168 pages
...somthing holy lodges in that brest, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testifie his hidd'n residence; How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night At every fall smoothing the Raven doune Of darkncs till it smil'd . . . Meanwhile, her elder brother,... | |
| William Riley Parker - 1996 - 708 pages
...a lyric strain: Can any mortal mixture of earth's mold Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment ? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with...wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled . . . Lorenzo to Jessica, Romeo to... | |
| David Bevington, Peter Holbrook - 1998 - 358 pages
...'Sweet Echo' he says: Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with...moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence; (lines 243-7) The Lady's singing is compared to that of his mother Circe and the sirens, which itself... | |
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