| William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 σελίδες
...brood of folly without father bred ! . . . . But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest melancholy, Whose saintly 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... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 296 σελίδες
...dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddess! sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy ! "Whose saintly visage is too bright To...our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue : Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem ; Or that starr'd Ethiop queen... | |
| William Enfield - 1823 - 412 σελίδες
...dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy ! Hail divinest Melancholy ! Whose saintly visage is too bright, To...our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid wisdom's hue : Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem, Or that starr'd Ethiop queen,... | |
| John Aikin - 1807 - 706 σελίδες
...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...our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Menmon'8 sister might beseem, Or that starred Ethiop queen... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 σελίδες
...dreams. The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail thou Goddess, sage and holy, Hail divinest udg feel' s I it y , hue ; Slack, but ntch as in esteem Aiinee Memnon's sister might beseem, Эr that starr'd Ethiop queen... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 468 σελίδες
...Mids. N. Dr. act ii. 8. 1. of the faery queen, But hail thou Goddess, sage and holy, Hail divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To...our 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... | |
| British anthology - 1824 - 460 σελίδες
...dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morphens' train. But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy ! Whose saintly visage is too bright To...our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memuon's sister might beseem, Or that starr'd Ethiop queen,... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 σελίδες
...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...our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue; Black, but such as In esteem. Prince Memnon's sister might beseem, Or that starr'd Ethiop queen... | |
| Mary Ann Kelty - 1824 - 976 σελίδες
...passed in the house we at present inhabit, — " But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy ; Hail, divinest Melancholy ! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight," — he repeated, raising his fine, expressive eyes as he spoke, and looking so in unison with the words... | |
| Mary Ann Kelty - 1824 - 256 σελίδες
...passed in the house we at present inhabit, _«? But hail, thoo goddess, sage and holy; Hail, divinest Melancholy ! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight," — he repeated, raising his fine, expressive eyes as he spoke, and looking so in unison with the words... | |
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