 | William Ellery Channing - 1834 - 626 pages
...breathes in the descriptions of the benighted Lady's singing, by Comus and the Spirit ! 'Comus. — Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such...testify his hidden residence : How sweetly did they float.upon the wings Of silence, through the empty -vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 498 pages
...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, 250 At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smil'd ! I have oft heard My mother... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1834 - 568 pages
...— Hamlet, Act v. Scene i. or Milton's lines on the sounds of the lady's voice, in Coinus : — ' How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence...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 linked together,... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1835 - 484 pages
...breathes in the descriptions of the benighted Lady's singing, by Comus and the Spirit! " Comus.—Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine...fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled! I have oft heard My mother Circe with the Sirens three, Amidst the flowery-kirtled Naiades,... | |
 | Author of The young man's own book - 1836 - 336 pages
...harmonies. Comas. Can any morlal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ra vishment? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with...air To testify his hidden residence: How sweetly did lhey float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 526 pages
...circuit wide. Book v. How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty vaulted night ; At every fall, smoothing the raven down Of darkness, till it smil'd. THE BIRTH OF DEATH. 4 I fled, and cried out Death: Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sigh'd From... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 360 pages
...circuit wide. Book v. How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty vaulted night ; At every fall, smoothing the raven down Of darkness, till it smil'd. THE HIRTH OF niAIil. 1 fled, and cried out Death : Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sigh'd From... | |
 | Stanhope Busby - 1837 - 132 pages
...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...that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal aiiTo testify his hidden residence. How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the... | |
 | Elizabeth Washington Wirt - 1837 - 264 pages
...thought, Which only music's Heaven-born art can bring To sweep across the mind with angel-wing. . OATS. Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such...Sure something holy lodges in that breast And with those raptures moves the vocal air To testily his hidden residence Milton. Bending down to earth, l... | |
 | Stanhope Busby - 1837 - 136 pages
...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... | |
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Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence. 
