| Stanhope Busby - 1837 - 136 lehte
...mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment ? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And wiih these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his...wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, At eveiy fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness, till it smiled ! I have oft heard My mother Circe... | |
| Stanhope Busby - 1837 - 132 lehte
...eloquent verse : 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 aiiTo testify his hidden residence. How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the... | |
| John Milton - 1838 - 496 lehte
...COMUS. COM. Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine inchanting ravishment ? 245 Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with...wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night, KO At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smil'd ! I have oft heard My mother Circe... | |
| 1838 - 1050 lehte
...Spirit ! 14 Cbmitf. Con any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment! Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with...hidden residence : How sweetly did they float upon the wines Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness... | |
| 1834 - 562 lehte
...i. or Milton's lines on the sounds of the lady's voice, in Comus : — ' How sweetly did iheyjloat upon the wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness, till it smiled.' May not these figures be taken in succession upon the mind's... | |
| 1838 - 540 lehte
...unconscious of listeners, and as sweetly, as the wood-thrush in its deep solitude. Sure, thought I, -" Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves lhe vocal air, To testify his hidden residence." And within that breast, as I afterwards found, was... | |
| Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1839 - 482 lehte
...venture ; for my new-enlivened spirits Prompt me ; and they perhaps are not far off. (Entf.r Comus.) Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with...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... | |
| John Milton - 1839 - 496 lehte
...Hurd and Warburton observe that ' shell' means the horizon, the hollow circumference of the heavens. And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify...wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night, aso At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smil'd ! I have oft heard My mother... | |
| British and foreign young men's society - 1839 - 216 lehte
...graceful flattery : Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould 3reathc such divine enchanting ravishment? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air I'o testify his hidden residence. How sweetly did theyJJoat upon the wings Of silence, through the... | |
| John Aikin - 1841 - 840 lehte
...Enter COMUS. Comas. Can any mortal mixture of earth's Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment? 245 smooth-shaven green. To behold the wandering Moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one empty vaulted night, 250 At every fall smoothing the raven-down Of darkness, till it smil'd ! I have... | |
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