 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1835 - 358 页
...was ware, and wished she might " Deny her nature, and be never more " Still to be so displaced." " 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." " Midnight... | |
 | Author of The young man's own book - 1836 - 336 页
...harmonies. Comas. Can any morlal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ra vishment? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with...air To testify his hidden residence: How sweetly did lhey float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 360 页
...Maia's son he stood, And shook his plumes, that heavenly fragrance fill'd The circuit wide. Book v. 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. THE HIRTH... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 526 页
...Maia's son he stood, And shook his plumes, that heavenly fragrance fill'd The circuit wide. Book v. 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. THE BIRTH... | |
 | Stanhope Busby - 1837 - 132 页
...wonderment and delight at those sweet sounds in the following outbreak of eloquent verse : Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting...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... | |
 | Elizabeth Washington Wirt - 1837 - 264 页
...music's Heaven-born art can bring To sweep across the mind with angel-wing. . OATS. Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting...Sure something holy lodges in that breast And with those raptures moves the vocal air To testily his hidden residence Milton. Bending down to earth, l... | |
 | Stanhope Busby - 1837 - 136 页
...wonderment and delight at those sweet sounds in the following outbreak of eloquent verse : Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting...ravishment ? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And wiih these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence. How sweetly did they float... | |
 | 1838 - 1050 页
...the descriptions of the benighted lady' singing by Comus and the Spirit ! 14 Cbmitf. Con any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 496 页
...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... | |
 | 1834 - 562 页
...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...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 lmked together,... | |
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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 air To testify his hidden residence. 
