 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, through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness...  The Priest ... - Page 1151821Full view - About this book
 | John Bell - 1791 - 294 pages
...that breast, " And with these raptures moves the vocal air goo " To testify his hidden residence : " How sweetly did they float upon the wings " Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, " At ev'ry fall smoothing the raven down " Of darkness till it smil'd ! I have oft' heard " My mother Circe,... | |
 | 1797 - 468 pages
...that breast, " And with these raptures moves the vocal air 303 " To testify his hidden residence : " How sweetly did they float upon the wings " Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, " At ev'ry fall smoothing the raven down " Of darkness till it smil'd ! I have oft' heard " My mother Circe,... | |
 | John Milton, Thomas Warton - 1799 - 148 pages
...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,...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 Sirens three, Amidst... | |
 | John Boyd Greenshields - 1800 - 174 pages
...description by Milton, in hig Gomus, of a Fairy vision. «' Their port was more than human as they stood.— I took it for a Fairy vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That on the colours of the Rainbow live, And play in th' plighted clouds. " The Dives, are represented as... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1803 - 274 pages
...which the persian poets have conceived of the peries. ' Their port was more than human as the; Hood; I took it for a fairy vision Of some gay creatures of the element That in the colors of the rainbow live, And play i' lh' flighted clouds.' Of musk, camplurc, ambergris, and similar... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 624 pages
...precipice, and, while we admire her boldness, we are doubtful of her safety. In that exquisite passage — How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence...the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the rayen down Of darkness till it smiled, if our rapture would suffer us to be sufficiently composed to... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 602 pages
...precipice, and, while we admire her boldness, we are doubtful of her safety. In that exquisite passage— How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, At ewry fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled, if our rapture would suffer us to be... | |
 | John Milton - 1808 - 96 pages
...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,...fall, smoothing the raven-down Of darkness, till it smil'd ! I have oft heard My mother, Circe, with the Syrens three, Amidst the flowery-kirtled Naiades,... | |
 | 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 - 558 pages
...— Hamlet, Act v. Scene i. or Milton's lines on the sounds of the lady's voice, in Comus :•— ' How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence...the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness, till it smiled.' May not these figures be taken in succession upon the mind's... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 418 pages
...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,...fall smoothing the raven-down Of darkness, till it smil'd ! I have oft heard My mother Circe with the Syrens three, Amidst the flowery-kirtled Naiades,... | |
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