 | 1867 - 964 Seiten
...whence it was thought came habitual sadness. " But hail, thon goddess, sage and holy. Hail, diviuest melancholy .' Whose saintly visage is too bright To...of human sight ; And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue." Viltoit, " H Pentmn." Ifeia, of Greek origin (JUTO, pronounced... | |
 | John Milton - 1782 - 40 Seiten
...zu den verschiednen Absichten die nämlichen Bilder, und dan nämlichen Gang im Gedicht beibehält. Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view 1 5 O'erlaid with black, staid wisdom's hue. Black, but such as in esteem, Prince Memnon's sister might... | |
 | John Bell - 1788 - 628 Seiten
...human sight, And therefore to our weaker view , , ,. . jg O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's bue } Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister...Or that starr'd Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauties' praise above • so The sea-nymphs, and their pow'rs offended t Yet thou art higher far descended,... | |
 | John Milton, Thomas Warton - 1799 - 148 Seiten
...Whose faintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue ; Black, but...Or that starr'd Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauties' praise above The sea-nymphs, and their pow'rs offended: Yet thou art higher far descended;... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1802 - 152 Seiten
...Whose saintly image is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue, Black, but...Or that starr'd Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauties praise above The sea-nymphs, and their pow'rs offended ; Yet thou art higher far descended,... | |
 | 1804 - 496 Seiten
...melancholy," we are told, that to adapt her visage to our weaker view, it is Oc'r laid with blaci; staid wisdom's hue.... Black, but such as, in esteem,...queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The Sea Nymphs.... The poet could not but be aware, that to give his goddess the complexion of an African,... | |
 | Peter Pindar - 1804 - 180 Seiten
...and numberless As the gay motes that people the sun-beams, But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy I Hail, divinest MELANCHOLY ! Whose saintly visage is...sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdem's hue : Black, but such as in esteem Prince MEMNON'S sister might... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 Seiten
...Whose saintly visage is too bright Tn hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view , O'erlaid with black , staid Wisdom's hue ; Black ,...Prince Memnon's sister might beseem , Or that starr'd Ethiope queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The sea-nymphs , and their powers offended... | |
 | John Wolcot - 1804 - 180 Seiten
...pensioners of MORPHEUS' train. But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy ! Hail, divinest MELAXCHOLY ! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue : Black, but such as in esteem Prince MEMNOS'S sister might... | |
 | 1806 - 408 Seiten
...people the sun-beams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail them Goddess, sage and holy, Hail divinest Melancholy,...of human sight ; And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue; Black, but such as in esteem, I'rince Memnon's sister might... | |
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And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the sunbeams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus 
