 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm), Black Adam and Charles, ltd - England - 1846 - 504 pages
...recluse. Upon the table in the centre these lines are painted : — " And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage. The hairy gown and mossy...experience do attain To something like prophetic strain." The family of Brougham (or Burgham, aa it was formerly spelt,) is ancient and respectable. The manor,... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes. And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy...sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth show, And every herb that sips the dew ; Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic... | |
 | Book - English poetry - 1847 - 216 pages
...Dissolve me into ecstacies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes ! And may, at last, my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy...Melancholy, give, And I with thee will choose to live. THE DESERTED VILLAGE. SWEET Auburn ! loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheer'd the... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...massy proof. And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim, religious light. (1. 155 — 160) 19 Find ) 6 He sent for lancewood to make the thills; The...from the straightest trees; The panels of white-wood, show, And every herb that sips the dew; Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.... | |
 | John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...extasies, And bring all Heav'n before mine eyes. And may at last my weary age Find out the peacefull hermitage, The Hairy Gown and Mossy Cell, Where I may sit and rightly faU Of every Star that Heav'n doth shew, And every Herb that sips the dew; TiU old experience do attain... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 340 pages
...the poem's conclusion, the poet-prophet: Where 1 may sit and rightly spell Of every Star that Heav'n doth shew, And every Herb that sips the dew; Till...Melancholy give, And I with thee will choose to live. (lines 170-6) The presence of Hermes and Plato at the centre of 'II Penseroso' is emphatic and serious.... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes. And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and righdy spell 170 Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience... | |
 | 229 pages
...complementarity, the pensive man at the end of his performance makes a parallel appeal to his guiding spirit: These pleasures Melancholy give, And I with thee will choose to live. The rural mistress of the passionate shepherd has been replaced by Mirth and Melancholy, females of a higher... | |
 | S. K. Heninger - Poetry - 1994 - 228 pages
...romplementarity, the pensive man at the end of his performance makes a parallel appeal to his guiding spirit: These pleasures Melancholy give. And I with thee will choose to live. {175-761 The rural mistress ol the passionate shepherd has been replaced by Mirth and Melancholy, females... | |
 | Stanton J. Linden - Literary Criticism - 392 pages
...Choir," these influences come to be identified with prophetic wisdom: And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The Hairy Gown and Mossy...Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every Star that Heav'n doth shew, And every Herb that sips the dew; Till old experience do attain To something like... | |
| |
And bring all Heaven before mine eyes. And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience... 
