 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 302 pages
...and numberless As the gay motes that people the sun-beams ; Or likest hovering dreams, But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy ! Hail, divinest Melancholy...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... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...hov'ring dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morphens' train* But hail, thou goddess sage and holy ! il.il!, 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... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 pages
...the sun-beams ; Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy!...visage is too bright TO hit the sense of human sight, e2 And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue; Black, but such as in... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 414 pages
...the sun-beams ; Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou. Goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy...visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, »2 / I a Sad leaden Downward cast fe them on the earth as fast : °[n wi*h thce calm Peace, an that... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...lifcest hovering dreams, __. The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. I'lt ii.nl, thou goddess, gage 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddess, sage and hoiy, 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 270 pages
...sun-beams ; Or likest hovering dreams. The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. 10 But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy...visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight. And therefore to our weaker view 1 S O'er-laid with black, staid Wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 588 pages
...adopting in preference the grave sedate character of countenance ascribed to him in the first note. Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view 15 O'erlaid with black staid wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 596 pages
...adopting in preference the grave sedate character of countenance ascribed to him in the first note. Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view 1 15 O'erlaid with black staid wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...people the sunbeams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou goddess sage and holy! Hail, divinest Melancholy !...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... | |
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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... 
