...testifies his wonderment and delight at those sweet sounds in the following outbreak of eloquent verse : Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such...ravishment ? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And wiih these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence. How sweetly did they float...

...breathes in the descriptions of the benighted lady' singing by Comus and the Spirit ! 14 Cbmitf. Con any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine...hidden residence : How sweetly did they float upon the wines Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness...

...COMUS. COM. Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine inchanting ravishment ? 245 Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with...wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night, KO At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smil'd ! I have oft heard My mother Circe...

...i. or Milton's lines on the sounds of the lady's voice, in Comus : — ' How sweetly did iheyjloat upon the wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted...fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness, till it smiled.' May not these figures be taken in succession upon the mind's eye, and yet so far lmked together,...

...venture ; for my new-enlivened spirits Prompt me ; and they perhaps are not far off. (Entf.r Comus.) Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with...they float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty vaulted night. At every fall smoothing the raven-down Of darkness, till it smiled ! I have oft...

...Hurd and Warburton observe that ' shell' means the horizon, the hollow circumference of the heavens. And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify...wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night, aso At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smil'd ! I have oft heard My mother...

...enters, and commences an address of graceful flattery : Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould 3reathc such divine enchanting ravishment? Sure something...breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air I'o testify his hidden residence. How sweetly did theyJJoat upon the wings Of silence, through the...

...Narcissus are ? Oh, if thou have Hid them in some flowery cave, Tell me but where, Enter COMUS. Comus. Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such...they float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven-down Of darkness, till it smiled ! I have oft...

...resounding grace to all Heaven's harmonies. Enter Cosirs. Comut. Cananymortal,mixtureofearth'smould, Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment ! Sure something...they float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down .. I, - ~ — ! Of darkness till it smiled...

...Enter COMUS. Comas. Can any mortal mixture of earth's Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment? 245 smooth-shaven green. To behold the wandering Moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one empty vaulted night, 250 At every fall smoothing the raven-down Of darkness, till it smil'd ! I have...