 But hail! thou Goddess sage and holy! Hail, divinest Melancholy! 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 Memnon's...  Beauties of the British Poets ... - Página 68de George Croly - 1850 - 395 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 páginas
...sage and holy! Hail, divine-.! Melancholy! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense othuman sight ; And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid...esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem : Or that starr'd Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The sea-nyntnhs, and their powers... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 páginas
...people the sunbeams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou goddess sage and holy! Hail, divinest Melancholy !...esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem : Or that starr'd Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The sea-nymphs, and their powers... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1818 - 624 páginas
...to be something emblematical in these lines — Hail, thou goddess sage and holy, H«il, H ivines I Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To...sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'trJaid with black, sti.iJ wisdom's hue. // Ptnseroso. Contemplative melancholy is again alluded to... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 páginas
...the sun-beams ; Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy!...esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem, Or that starr'd Ethiop queen, that strove To set her beauty's praise above The Sea-Nymphs, and their powers... | |
 | 1819 - 504 páginas
...appears to be something emblematical in these lines — Hail thou goddess sag* and holy. Hail divines! Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To...sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'er laid with black, staid wisdom's hue. // Penseroso. Contemplative melancholy is again alluded to... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 páginas
...fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy j oves to dwell With Friendship, Peace, and Contemplation...many, rack'd with honest passions, droop In deep reti stiiid Wisdom's hue; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem. Or that starr'd... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 páginas
...Penseroso. " Hence, vain deluding joys, The brood of folly without father bred ! . . . . But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest melancholy,...visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, &c." The same writer thus moralises on the life of * man, in a set of similes, as apposite as they... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 372 páginas
...Penseroso. " Hence, vain deluding joys, The brood of folly without father bred ! . , . . But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest melancholy,...visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, &c." The same writer thus moralises on the life of t man, in a set of "similes, as apposite as they... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 páginas
...the sun-beams ; Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddess! sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy...esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem ; Or that starr'd Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The sea-nymphs, and their powers... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 páginas
...people the sunbeams, Or likest hov'ring dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy ! Hail divinest Melancholy...esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem, Or that starr'd Ethiop queen, that strove To set her beauty's praise above The sea-nymphs, and their pow'rs... | |
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