 Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence. How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence,...  English Poetry and Poets - Seite 191von Sarah Warner Brooks - 1890 - 506 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Milton - 1807 - 434 Seiten
...harmonies. COM. Can any mortal mixture of Earth's moU Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment ? N 8 Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the voca1 Air To testify his Imld. n residence : How sweetly did they flote upon the wings Of silenfe,... | |
 | John Milton - 1808 - 96 Seiten
...COMUS, Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment ? 845 Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these...empty-vaulted night, At every fall, smoothing the raven-down Of darkness, till it smil'd ! I have oft heard My mother, Circe, with the Syrens three,... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - 1809 - 332 Seiten
...for my new enliven'd spirits Prompt me," and they perhaps are not far oft', Comus. (Aside.) " Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these...sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence, thro' the empty-vaulted night. At ev'ry fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness, 'till it smil'd;... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1834 - 558 Seiten
...— Hamlet, Act v. Scene i. or Milton's lines on the sounds of the lady's voice, in Comus :•— ' How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence...smoothing the raven down Of darkness, till it smiled.' May not these figures be taken in succession upon the mind's eye, and yet so far linked together, or... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 Seiten
...COMWS. Comns. Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment ? isure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these...the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven-down Of darkness, till it smil'd ! I have oft heard My mother Circe with the Syrens three, Amidst... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 418 Seiten
...COMUS. Comus. Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment ? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these...the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven-down Of darkness, till it smil'd ! I have oft heard My mother Circe with the Syrens three, Amidst... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 414 Seiten
...COMÜS. Comus. Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment ? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these...the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven-down Of darkness, till it smil'd ! I have oft heard My mother Circe with the Syrens three, Amidst... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 Seiten
...Comui. Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould "Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment? 245 Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these...upon the wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted uight, At every fall smoothing the raven-down 251 Of darkness, till it smil'd ! I have oft heard My... | |
 | Charles Symmons - 1810 - 690 Seiten
...precipice, and, while we admire her boldness, we are doubtful of her safety. In that exquisite passage— How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence...the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the ravep down Pf darkness till it smiled, if our rapture would suffer us to be sufficiently composed to... | |
 | British drama - 1811 - 710 Seiten
...Prompt me," and they perhaps are not f:ir oft'. Cowns. (Aside.) "Sure something holy lodges in tliat breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air...sweetly did they float upon the wings Of Silence, thro' the empty-vaulted night, At ev'ry fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness, 'till it snul'd;... | |
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