 | William Hazlitt - English drama - 1821 - 374 pages
...Milton's II Penseroso. " Hence, vain deluding joys, The brood of folly without father bred ! . . . . But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest...visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, &c." The same writer thus moralises on the life of * man, in a set of similes, as apposite as they... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Dramatists, English - 1821 - 372 pages
...Milton's II Penseroso. " Hence, vain deluding joys, The brood of folly without father bred ! . , . . But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest...visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, &c." The same writer thus moralises on the life of t man, in a set of "similes, as apposite as they... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Dramatists, English - 1821 - 380 pages
...Penseroso. i " Hence, vain deluding joys, The brood of folly without father bred ! . . . . But hail, them Goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest melancholy,...visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, &c." The same writer thus moralises on the life of man, in a set of similes, as apposite as they are... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...motes that people the sun-beams ; Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddess! sage and holy, Hail, divinest...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... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...motes that people the sunbeams, Or likest hov'ring dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy ! Hail divinest...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... | |
 | John Aikin - Literature, Modern - 1807 - 706 pages
...and may, perhaps, be new to many of your readers and those of Milton, Permit me to quote the passage. Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense...Wisdom's hue; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Menmon'8 sister might beseem, Or that starred Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...motes that people the sunbeams ; Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morphens' train. But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest...Wisdom's hue; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memuon's sister might beseem, Or that starr'd Ethiop queen, that strove To set her beauty's praise... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou godde.«, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy! ЛУЪозе saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human...esteem. Prince Memnon's sister might beseem, Or that starr'd Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauties' praisp above The Sea-nymphs, anil their powers... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...motes that people the sun-beams, Or likest hovering dreams. The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. U ; Slack, but ntch as in esteem Aiinee Memnon's sister might beseem, Эr that starr'd Ethiop queen that... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 468 pages
...poetry for train, attendants, retinue, &c. As in the Mids. N. Dr. act ii. 8. 1. of the faery queen, But hail thou Goddess, sage and holy, Hail divinest...weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid wisdom's hue ; This was in consequence of Qu. Elizabeth's fashionable establishment of a band of military courtiers... | |
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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... 
