 | John Milton - 1852 - 424 pages
...that people the sun-beams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. Bnt, 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... | |
 | Class-book - Poetry - 1852 - 152 pages
...of happy spirits. 4 The melancholy man. IL PENSEROSO. 45 The fickle pensioners of Morpheus'1 train. But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest...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 * * * * Come, pensive nun,... | |
 | Popular educator - 1852 - 842 pages
...thought came habitual sadness. " But hall, thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail divinest тг/апсЛо/у, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight ; • " Lives of the Queens of England, by Agnes Strickland/* vol. viii. p. Ю. And therefore to our... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...people the sunbeams. Or likest hovering dreams The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail , thon Goddess , sage and holy, Hail divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright i To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'relaid with black, staid Wisdom's... | |
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 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 starred Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The Sea-Nymphs, and their powers... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 372 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...hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister2 might beseem, Or that starr'd Ethiop queen3 that strove To set her beauty's praise above The... | |
 | William Bridges Hunter (Jr.) - 1986 - 260 pages
...spiritual truth that is too bright for the carnal eye: But hail thou Goddes, sage and holy, Hail divmest Melancholy, Whose Saintly visage is too bright To hit the Sense of human sight; And therfore to our weaker view, Ore laid with black staid Wisdoms hue. (11-16) And to counter the scandalous... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...Task-Master's eye. (1. 1—14) FF; HelP; InPS; LiTB; NAEL-1; NAs; PoE; SeCePo; Son // Penseroso 15 nveil Her awful face: (1. 82-86) 29 Nor second He,...Closed his eyes in endless night. (1. 100-101) 31 (1. 1 1 -16) 16 Come pensive Nun, devout and pure, Sober, steadfast, and demure, All in a robe of darkest... | |
 | Richard Maxwell - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 454 pages
...eyes" [The Life and Art of Albrecht Diirer, 163]. Panofsky also cites Milton's // Penseroso: [His] saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human...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... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - Fiction - 1993 - 390 pages
...alludes to this story in his Penseroso, where he addresses Melancholy as the goddess, sage and holy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense...esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem, Or that starred Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The sea-nymphs, and their powers... | |
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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... 
