 | John Milton - 1874 - 518 pages
...; but her exquisite singing is most dwelt on. Thus, of her Echo-Song in the enchanted wood : — " At last a soft and solemn-breathing sound Rose like a steam of rich distilled perfumes, And stole upon the air, that even Silence Was took ere she was ware, and wished... | |
 | English literature - 1895 - 508 pages
...silence Gave respite to the drowsy frighted 2 steeds That draw the litter of close-curtained Sleep. At last a soft and solemn-breathing sound Rose like a steam of rich distilled perfumes, And stole upon the air, that even Silence Was took ere she was ware, and wished... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1896 - 184 pages
...Milton has a direct comparison of sound to fragrance in a very beautiful passage in Camus, 555 foL : "At last a soft and solemn-breathing sound Rose like...of rich distill'd perfumes, And stole upon the air, that even Silence Was took ere she was ware, and wish'd she might Deny her nature, and be never more,... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - Central nervous system - 1896 - 280 pages
...or village cock Count the night watches to his feathery dames. " At last a soft and solemn breathing sound Rose like a steam of rich distill'd perfumes, And stole upon the air. . . ... I was all ear And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of Death." Though... | |
 | Charles Macauley Stuart - 1896 - 328 pages
...silence Gave respite to the drowsy-flighted55 steeds That draw the litter of close-curtained Sleep. At last a soft and solemn-breathing sound Rose like a steam of rich distilled perfumes, And stole upon the air, that56 even Silence Was took ere she was ware, and wished... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1896 - 794 pages
...Thyrsis ? whose artful strains have oft delay'd The huddling brook to hear his madrigal. MILTON: Comus. At last a soft and solemn-breathing sound Rose like a steam of rich distiil'd perfumes, And stole upon the air, that even silence Was took ere she was 'ware, and wish'd... | |
 | William Sloane Kennedy - Natural history - 1897 - 274 pages
...sudden silence Gave respite to the drowsy-footed steeds That draw the litter of close-curtained Sleep ; At last a soft and solemn-breathing sound Rose like a steam of rich distilled perfumes, And stole upon the air, that even Silence Was took ere she was ware, and wished... | |
 | John Milton - 1898 - 234 pages
...sudden silence Gave respite to the drowsy frighted steeds That draw the litter of close-curtained Sleep. At last a soft and solemn-breathing sound Rose like a steam of rich distilled perfumes, And stole upon the air, that even Silence Was took ere she was ware, and wished... | |
 | John Milton - 1898 - 232 pages
...WITHIN THY AIRY SHELL" 95 "UNMUFFLE, YE FAINT STARS" 99 "WRAPT IN A PLEASING FIT OF MELANCHOLY, . . . AT LAST A SOFT AND SOLEMN-BREATHING SOUND ROSE LIKE A STEAM OF RICH DISTILLED PERFUMES" . Id6 " NAY, LADY, SIT ; IF I BUT WAVE THIS WAND, YOUR NERVES ARE ALL CHAINED UP... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1898 - 358 pages
...sudden silence Gave respite to the drowsy-flighted steeds That draw the litter of close-curtained Sleep. At last a soft and solemn-breathing sound Rose like a steam of rich distilled perfumes, And stole upon the air, that even Silence Was took ere she was ware, and wished... | |
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Sleep; At last a soft and solemn-breathing sound Rose like a steam of rich distill'd perfumes, And stole upon the air... 
