...clusters from the tender shoots. Their port was more than human, as they stood : I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That...i' the plighted clouds. I was awe-struck, And, as I pass'd, I worship'd : if those you seek, It were a journey like the path to Heaven, To help you find...

...whole had •more energy; we have more of the wantoning of the imagination, and1 , the conjuring up a fairy vision Of some gay creatures of the element,...That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play in the plighted clouds. It is not necessary to decide whether the ancient or the modem poetry is best;...

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...malevolence. How unlike the the spirits which floated in the entranced vision of onr southern poet! " the gay creatures of the element That in the colours of...the rainbow live, And play i' the plighted clouds." Yet what is ' the Monastery,' how skilful soever may be its construction, but a fairy tale? It is,...

...malevolence. How unlike the spirits which floated in the entranced vision of onr southern poet ! " the gay creatures of the element That in the colours of...the rainbow live, And play i' the plighted clouds." Yet what is ' the Monastery,' how skilful soever may be its construction, but a fairy tale? It is,...

...clusters from the tender shoots ; Their port was more than human, as they stood : I took it for a faery Under the spreading favour of these pines, Slept, as they said, to the next thicket s 30O And play i' the plighted clouds. I was aw-struck. And, as I past, I worshipt ; if those you seek,...

...through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven-down Of darkness till it smiled ! I took it for a fairy vision Of some gay creatures...That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i' th' plighted clouds." Comus. ON the following midnight Lewen again sought the scene of his conference...

...of a Uooli, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit: " Fanny. ' A fairy vision Of some gay creatures of the element,...That in the colours of the rainbow live— And play in the plighted clouds-' Milton. Second edition." agement of tanrjintg. by securing the copies of maps,...

...from his palette the mystery and beauty of the chromatic language. His pictures swarm with beings " that in the colours of the rainbow live and play i' the plighted clouds " — bursting with life, motion, and vigour — teeming with the wanton growth of primeval nature...

..." Fanny" has been published, but does not appear to have had a very extensive circulation. FANNY. " A fairy vision Of some gay creatures of the element,...That in the colours of the rainbow live — And play in the plighted clouds." — MILTON. I. FANNY was younger once than she is now, And prettier of course...