 | Hippolyte Taine - 1908 - 514 pages
...form, he sees the mythological pictures with which the taste of the age filled the very streets: " A station like the herald Mercury New lighted on a heaven-kissing hill.* l This charming vision, in the midst of a bloody invective proves that there lurks a painter underneath... | |
 | Virgil - 1914 - 544 pages
...Compare Virgil's tedious conceits about Mercury and Atlas with Shakespeare's lines (Hamlet 3. 4. 58) ' A station like the herald Mercury New lighted on a heaven-kissing hill.' 259. magalia] Cf. 1. 421. 261. conspicit: atque illi...] 'he beholds Aeneas founding ...while see!... | |
 | Modern Language Association of America - 1925 - 1450 pages
...Ill, iv, 55-59: See what a grace was seated on this brow, Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, A station like the herald Mercury, New lighted on a heaven-kissing hill. PL, II, 89-91 (If dock, on "the pain of unextinguishable fire"): When the scourge Inexorably, and the... | |
 | Charles Harlen Shattuck - 1969 - 382 pages
...gazes at it affectionately and reverently, speaking in tones of admiration and pathetic remembrance: “A station like the herald Mercury, new¿ lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; a combination and a form, indeed (deep sound yet upward accent; he looks at the Queen resentfully), where... | |
 | 1879 - 1162 pages
...I grant, by design, but of necessity arising from the then crudeness of stage effect. The words— A station like the herald Mercury New lighted on a heaven-kissing hill— show that the pictures are full-length figures, either material works or painted by Hamlet with the... | |
 | 1879 - 1158 pages
...I grant, by design, but of necessity arising from the then crudeness of stage effect. The words— A station like the herald Mercury New lighted on a heaven-kissing hill— that the pictures are full-length figures, either material works or painted by Hamlet with the brush... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1994 - 964 pages
...this brow: Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command, A station like the herald Mercury New lighted on a heaven-kissing hill - 60 A combination and a form indeed Where every god did seem to set his seal To give the world assurance... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1995 - 136 pages
...this brow: Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command, A station like the herald Mercury New lighted on a heaven-kissing hill — A combination and a form indeed Where every god did seem to set his seal To give the world assurance... | |
 | John Russell - 1995 - 260 pages
...his father, Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command, A station like the herald Mercury New lighted on a heaven-kissing hill— A combination and a form indeed Where every god did seem to set his seal To give the world assurance... | |
 | Richard Courtney - 1995 - 274 pages
...this brow: Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command, A station like the herald Mercury New lighted on a heaven-kissing hill — A combination and a form indeed Where every god did seem to set his seal To give the world assurance... | |
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Hero, has reserved for the last place in the climax, an attitude suggested by this imaginary attribute of the heathen divinities. " A station, like the herald Mercury, New lighted on a heaven-kissing hill." A still more obvious example, leading to the... 
