 | 1828 - 592 páginas
...divine enchanting ravishment? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence : How sweetly did they flu.it upon the wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 822 páginas
...obeying. Incurred, what could they less ? the penalty ; And manifold in (in, deserved to fall. Milton. How sweetly did they float upon the wings . Of silence,...smoothing the raven down : Of darkness 'till it smiled ! Id. They brought scandal To Israel, diffidence of God, and doubt In feeble hearts, prepense enough... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1830 - 622 páginas
...divine enchanting ravishment ? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence: How...it smiled ! I have oft heard My mother Circe with the Sirens three, Amidst the flowery-kirtled Naiades, Culling their potent herbs, and baleful drugs,... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1830 - 630 páginas
...? 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...it smiled ! I have oft 'heard My mother Circe with the Sirens three, Amidst the flowery-kirtled Naiades, Culling their potent he'rbs, and baleful drugs,... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 páginas
...divine, enchanting ravishment ? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence. How...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,... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 páginas
...inchanting ravishment ? 545 Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence : How...wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night, sso 331 shell] The margin of the Cambridge MS. 'Cell.' Hurd and Warburton observe that ' shell' means... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1832 - 312 páginas
...divine enchanting ravishment ? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence : How...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... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1832 - 304 páginas
...divine enchanting ravishment ? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence : How...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 328 páginas
...beautiful *' It has been asked where an illustration must be sought for the expression, ver. 252, ' At every fall, smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled :' and the entire silence of the commentators has been remarked. 1 shall, therefore, observe that there... | |
 | 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 - 568 páginas
...— Hamlet, Act v. Scene i. or Milton's lines on the sounds of the lady's voice, in Coinus : — ' How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence...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... | |
| |
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. How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of Silence,... 
