 | John Milton - 1813 - Страниц: 270
...pensioners of Morpheus' train. 10 But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy ! Whose saintly 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 in esteem Prince Memnon's sister... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - Страниц: 588
...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 esteem Prince Memmon's sister might... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - Страниц: 490
...sage and holy! Hail, divine-.! Melancholy! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense othuman sight ; And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid...Wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem : Or that starr'd Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - Страниц: 276
...fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou goddess sage and holy! Hail, divinest Melancholy ! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense...Wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem : Or that starr'd Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise... | |
 | 1834 - Страниц: 1046
...uses the pearly atmosphere, but likewise dips her pencil in the clouds, and if there be any thing ' " Whose saintly visage is too bright, To hit the sense of human sight," she therefore glazes them over— " To our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid wisdom's hue." Pictor.... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1818 - Страниц: 624
...something emblematical in these lines — Hail, thou goddess sage and holy, H«il, H ivines I Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'trJaid with black, sti.iJ wisdom's hue. // Ptnseroso. Contemplative melancholy is again alluded to... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - Страниц: 366
...fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense...Wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem, Or that starr'd Ethiop queen, that strove To set her beauty's praise... | |
 | 1819 - Страниц: 504
...something emblematical in these lines — Hail thou goddess sag* and holy. Hail divines! Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'er laid with black, staid wisdom's hue. // Penseroso. Contemplative melancholy is again alluded to... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - Страниц: 832
...fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy j oves to dwell With Friendship, Peace, and Contemplation...many, rack'd with honest passions, droop In deep reti stiiid Wisdom's hue; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem. Or that starr'd... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - Страниц: 372
...folly without father bred ! . , . . But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, &c." The same writer thus moralises on the life of t man, in a set of "similes, as apposite as they... | |
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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, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's... 
