 | Quintus Horatius Flaccus - 1848 - 588 pages
...Decentes. Comely. Our nearest word, inadmissible here, is graceful. Compare Milton — " While universal Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance. Led on the eternal Spring." — Par. Lost. b. iv.] 7. Cyclopum. Titans, children of Terra and Ccelus fuesiod. Theog. 139.), or... | |
 | John Milton - 1849 - 650 pages
...vernal airs, Breathing the smell of field and grove, attune 265 The trembling leaves, while universal Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance, Led on the eternal Spring*' Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairy flower, by gloomy Dis 270 Was gather'd,... | |
 | Truman Rickard, Hiram Orcutt - English language - 1850 - 130 pages
...vernal airs, 55 Breathing the smell of field and grove, attune The trembling leaves, while' universal Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance, Led on the eternal Spring. ,' EXEECISE XL. From Night VI.— DR. YOUNG. Genius and art, ambition's boasted wings, Our boast but... | |
 | Arthur S. P. Woodhouse, Douglas Bush - 1970 - 416 pages
...and 985 n.), and the course of the year was described as the dance of the Hours (cf. PL 4. 266-8 : ' Pan / Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance / Led on th' Eternal Spring'); hence lead on, itself suggestive of the dance. The epithet jolly seems to refer... | |
 | Joseph Ellis Duncan - Eden in literature - 1972 - 349 pages
...air greets one in both. As one sees in Elysium some dancing and some chanting, in Paradise "Universal Pan / Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance / Led on the Eternal Spring." Milton's Paradise implies an endless discovery of loci amoeni, but sometimes all the elements are crystallized... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 304 pages
...airs, vernal airs, Breathing the smell of field and grove, attune The trembling leaves, while universal Pan Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance Led on th' eternal Spring. Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpin gath'ring flow'rs, Herself a fairer... | |
 | Gilbert Highet - Literary Criticism - 1949 - 802 pages
...presented : the garden where, since Milton could not keep out the lovely Greek nature-spirits, universal Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance, Led on the eternal Spring. Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpin gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis Was gathered —... | |
 | Cedric C. Brown - Drama - 1985 - 246 pages
...equivalent in the description of the earthly paradise in Book Four of Paradise Lost: '. . . while universal Pan /Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance /Led on the eternal spring' (266-268). There is a cluster of images. Both passages link Graces and Hours with dance and spring.... | |
 | Stuart Curran - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 280 pages
...airs, vernal airs, Breathing the smell of field and grove, attune The trembling leaves, while universal Pan Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance Led on th'Eternal Spring. Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpin gath'ring flow'rs Herself a fairer... | |
 | Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins - Fiction - 1988 - 680 pages
...airs, vernal airs, Breathing the smell of field and grove, attune The trembling leaves, while universal Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance, Led on th' eternal spring. Far below he could dimly discern moving crowds; great buildings reared their stately... | |
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The birds their quire apply ; airs, vernal airs, Breathing the smell of field and grove, attune The trembling leaves, while universal Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance, Led on the eternal Spring. 
