 | John Milton - 1813 - 270 Seiten
...The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. 10 But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy ! Whose saintly visage is too bright To...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 - 596 Seiten
...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 1 15 O'erlaid with black staid wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memmon's sister might... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 588 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 Seiten
...dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou goddess sage and holy! Hail, divinest Melancholy ! Whose saintly visage is too bright To...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 sister might... | |
 | 1834 - 1046 Seiten
...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 - 624 Seiten
...to be something emblematical in these lines — Hail, thou goddess sage and holy, H«il, H ivines I Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To...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 - 366 Seiten
...dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy! Whose saintly visage is too bright To...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 sister might... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 Seiten
...fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy j oves to dwell With Friendship, Peace, and Contemplation join'd, How many, rack'd with honest passion O'erlaid with black, stiiid Wisdom's hue; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 Seiten
...brood of 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 * man, in a set of similes, as apposite as they... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 372 Seiten
...brood of 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... 
