...her kings barbaric, pearF and gold', Satan exalted sat. 2. Hence ! loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born, In Stygian cave forlorn,...brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings And the night raven sings ; There, under ebon shades and low-browed rocks, As ragged as thy locks, In dark...

...Triumphing over Death, and Chance, and thee, O Time. L'ALLEORO. HENCE, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born. In Stygian cave forlorn,...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...

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

...or awful. Of this we have an instance in Milton's L' Allegro: Hence, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born, In Stygian cave forlorn,...cell, Where brooding darkness spreads his jealous \rings, And the night raven sings ; There under ebon shades, and low - brow'd rocks, As ragged as thy...

...blue: To-morrow to fresh woods, and pastures new. L' ALLEGR 0. HENCE, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born, In Stygian cave forlorn,...and sights unholy ! •Find out some uncouth cell, 5 Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the mght-raven sings; There under ebon shades,...

...be ' the studious cloister's pale,' ie enclosure. L'ALLEGRO. HENCE, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born ! In Stygian cave forlorn,...shrieks, and sights unholy, Find out some uncouth cell, 5 Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night raven sings ; There under ebon shades,...

...SHAKSPEARE. The blacke and doleful ebonie. SPENSER'S ELEGY. Hence, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born, In Stygian cave forlorn,...shades, and low-brow'd rocks, As ragged as thy locks, /// dark Cimmerian desart ever dwell. MILTON, L'ALLEGRO. 'Tis so strange, That, though the truth of...

...no one, we think, hss ever approached him. MILTON. L'ALLBGRO. HENCE, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born, In Stygian cave forlorn,...brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night raven sings; There under ebon shades, and low brow'd roeks, As ragged as thy loeks, In dark Cimmerian...

...sameness nearly approaching to a monotone, to give it variety. Hence ! loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born, In Stygian cave forlorn,...brooding darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night raven sings ; There under ebon shades and £ino-browed rocks, As ragged as thy locks, In dark...

...beauty of description, thought, and faney. In foree of style no. one, we think, has ever approached him. In Stygian cave forlorn, 'Mongst horrid shapes, and...brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night raven sings ; There under ebon shades, and low brow'd roeks, As ragged as thy loeks, In dark...