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
| 1818 - 564 Seiten
...divine enchanting ravishment ? SuRE SOMETHING HOLY LODGES IX THAT BREASTj And with these raptures mores the vocal air To testify his hidden residence : How...they float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty- vaulted night, At evr'y fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled ! I have oft... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 Seiten
...thou be translated to the skies, [nies. And give resounding grace to all Heaven's harmo Enter COMCS. And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify...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... | |
| 1820 - 608 Seiten
...spiritless. Can any moital mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these...fall smoothing the raven -down Of darkness, till it smil'd ! I have oft heard My mother Circe with the Syrens three, Amidst the flowery-kirtled Naiades,... | |
| John Aikin - 1820 - 832 Seiten
...divine enchanting ravishment ? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures'moves titions Sense from Thought divide ! And middle natures, how they long to join, tlie wings Of silence, through the empty vaulted night. At every fell smoothing the raven-down Of darkness,... | |
| 1821 - 274 Seiten
...passions are all of the same bent as the aspirings of his soul ; they point Heaven-ward ! " CHAPTER IX. " How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence,...the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven-down Of darkness till it smiled ! I took it for a fairy vision Of some gay creatures of the element,... | |
| Charles Edward Dodd - 1821 - 626 Seiten
...evening, and the swelling sounds of the organ had a fine effect in the dark stillness around — . i How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven-down Of darkness till it smiled— It was night... | |
| 1838
...is the food of love." " How sweet her notes do float upon the Of silence, through the empty vaulted night ! At every fall, smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiles." — MILTON. CHARLES WEICHSKLL was a native of Frcyburg, in Saxony, and a musician of much... | |
| Charles Edward Dodd - 1821 - 614 Seiten
...the evening, and the swelling sounds of the organ had a fine effect in the dark stillness around— How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven-down Of darkness till it smiled— It was night... | |
| Charles Symmons - 1822 - 526 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...smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled, if our rapture would suffer us to be sufficiently composed to consult our reason, we might, perhaps,... | |
| John Milton - 1823 - 220 Seiten
...COMUS. Comns. Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment! Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these...they float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness, till it smiled ! I have oft... | |
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