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, through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of Darkness... Macmillan's Magazine - Stran 2531878Celotni ogled - O knjigi
| John Bell - 1788 - 628 strani
...with these raptures moves the vocal Air To testify his hidden residencei How sweetly did they flote upon the wings Of Silence, through the empty vaulted...fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smil'd! I have oft heard My mother Circe with the Sirens three, Amidst the flow'ry-kirtled Naiades... | |
| John Milton, Thomas Warton - 1799 - 148 strani
...his hidden residence. 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 smil'd! I have oft heard My mother Circe with the Sirens three, Amidst the flow'ry-kirtled Naiads,... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1834 - 558 strani
...voice, in Comus :•— ' 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.' May not these figures be taken in succession upon the mind's eye, and yet so far linked together, or... | |
| Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - 1813 - 466 strani
...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,...fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smil'd : I have oft heard, Amidst the flow'ry-kirtled Naiades, My mother Circe, with the Sirens three,... | |
| Robert Deverell - 1813 - 634 strani
...alluring locks — Rise, rise, and heave thy rosy head." as before in the remarkable passage in line 2,31, At every fall smoothing the raven -down Of darkness till it smiled — So again in Lycidas, a poem of Milton, which, in many parts of it, has a considerable bearing upon... | |
| Robert Deverell - 1813 - 354 strani
...alluring locks — Rise, rise, and heave thy rosy head." as before in the remarkable passage in line 251, At every fall smoothing the raven .down Of darkness till it smiled — So again in Lycidas, a poem of Milton, which, in many parts of it, has a considerable bearing upon... | |
| 1820 - 608 strani
...his hidden residence. 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 smil'd ! I have oft heard My mother Circe with the Syrens three, Amidst the flowery-kirtled Naiades,... | |
| 1838
...BII.LINGTON. " Music rules the world above Music 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 Symmons - 1822 - 526 strani
...exquisite passage — 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, if our rapture would suffer us to be sufficiently composed to consult our reason, we might, perhaps,... | |
| John Milton - 1823 - 220 strani
...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,...smoothing the raven down Of darkness, till it smiled ! I have oft heard My mother Circe with the Syrens three, Amidst the flowery Jdrtled Naiades, Culling... | |
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