...and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. II.— I? Allegro, or the Merry Man. — MILTON. HENCE, loathed Melancholy ; Of Cerberus and blackest midnight born, In Stygian cave forlorn, 'JVlongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy Find out some uncouth cell, Wheie brooding...

...with richest hand, , Showers, on her kings barbaric, pearF and gold', Satan exalted sat. 2. Hence ! loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight...shrieks, and sights unholy, Find out some uncouth cell, Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings And the night raven sings ; There, under ebon shades...

...stars, we shall forever sit, Triumphing over Death, and Chance, and thee, O Time. L'ALLEORO. HENCE, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight...shrieks, and sights unholy ! Find out some uncouth cell, AVhere brooding darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night raven sings; There under ebon shades...

...conjectures that the right reading may be ' the studious cloister's pale.' ie enclosure. L'ALLEGRO. HENCE, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight...forlorn, 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights Find out some uncouth cell, [unholy, Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous And the night raven...

...description of what is sublime or awful. Of this we have an instance in Milton's L' Allegro: Hence, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight...shrieks, and sights unholy ! Find out some uncouth cell, Where brooding darkness spreads his jealous \rings, And the night raven sings ; There under ebon shades,...

...conjectures that the right reading may be ' the studious cloister's pale,' ie enclosure. L'ALLEGRO. HENCE, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight...the night raven sings ; There under ebon shades, and low-brow'd rocks, As ragged as thy locks, In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell. 10 But come thou Goddess...

...rose, and twitch'd his mantle blue: To-morrow to fresh woods, and pastures new. L' ALLEGR 0. HENCE, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight...brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the mght-raven sings; There under ebon shades, and Uvw-brow'd rocks, As ragged as thy locks, In dark Cimmerian...

...fearful, comfortlest, and horrible. SHAKSPEARE. The blacke and doleful ebonie. SPENSER'S ELEGY. Hence, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight...shrieks, and sights unholy, Find out some uncouth cell, Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night-raven sings; There, under ebon shades,...

...a lower tone of voice, and a sameness nearly approaching to a monotone, to give it variety. Hence ! loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight...shrieks, and sights unholy ; Find out some uncouth cell, Where brooding darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night raven sings ; There under ebon shades...

...thought, and faney. In foree of style no one, we think, hss ever approached him. MILTON. L'ALLBGRO. HENCE, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight...shrieks, and sights unholy, Find out some uncouth cell, Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night raven sings; There under ebon shades,...