 Come, pensive Nun, devout and pure, ' Sober, steadfast, and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing with majestic train, And sable stole of cypress lawn Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come; but keep thy wonted state, With even step, and musing...  The New Speaker. With an Essay on Elocution - Page 216by John Connery - 1861 - 395 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 pages
...Whilst yet there was no fear of Jove. Come, pensive Nun, devout and pure, Sober, stedfast, and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing with majestic train, And sable stole of (Jvprus lawn, Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step, and... | |
 | 1819 - 504 pages
...Mitlun in the following verses : — Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, Sober, su-dfait and demure. All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing with majestic train. And sa£le stole of cyprrsi iawn, Over thy decent shoulders drawn ; Coioe, but keep thy wonted state, With... | |
 | John Walker - 1819 - 800 pages
...prodigious things." rif.iniirts of the Imagination. And Milton in the same manner the verb to commerce : " And looks commercing with the skies, " Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eye»."——Jl Penseroso. 499. Something very analogous to this we find in the nouns we verbalize,... | |
 | 1822 - 284 pages
...Whilst yet there was no tear of Jove. Come, pensive Nun ! devout and pure, Sober, stedfast, and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing with majestic train, And sable stole of Cyprus lawn, Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come ! but keep thy wonted state, With even step, and... | |
 | John Walker - 1823 - 808 pages
...commenting on prodigious things.'1 Pleasures of tlie Jkmd MdMsi in die same manner the verb to commerce : " And looks commercing with the skies, " Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes." — — fl Paueroio. 4V. Soawttunc wry analogous to this we find in the nouns we verbalize, by changing... | |
 | Thomas Thompson - 1824 - 302 pages
...demure, All in a robe of darkest grain. Flowing with majestic train, And sable stole of Cyprus lawq, Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come, but keep thy...musing gait, And looks commercing with the skies, Thy wrapt soul sitting in thine eyes. // ferfseroso, 30,— 40. It would require the pencil of a master... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Following with majestic 'rain, And sable stole of Cyprus iving harp, and lofty Denham sung ? But hark ! the...! Are these reviv'd ? or is it Granville sings ! T skim, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes: There held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble,... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...Whilst yet there was no fear of Jove. Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, Sober, stedfast, and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing with majestic train, And sable stole of Cyprus lawn, Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step, and... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...While yet there was no fear of Jove. Come, pensive Nun, devout and pure« Sober, steadfast, and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing with majestic train, And sable stole of Cyprus lawn, Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step, and... | |
 | Thomas Thompson - 1824 - 342 pages
...and therefore it is here introduced. Come pensive Nun, devout and pure, Sober, stcdfast and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing with majestic train, And sable stole of Cyprus lawn, Over thy decent shoulders drawn. * Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step and... | |
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