 | John Bell - 1788 - 628 pagina’s
...steeds, That draw the litter of close-curtain'd Sleep; At last a soft and solemn breathing sound 555 Rose like a steam of rich distill'd perfumes, And stole upon the air, that even Silence Was took ere she was ware, and wish'd she might Deny her nature, and be never more... | |
 | John Bell - 1791 - 294 pagina’s
...drowsy-flighted steeds " That draw the litter of close-curtain'd Sleep. " At last a soft and solemn breathing sound " Rose like a steam of rich distill'd perfumes, " And stole upon the air, that ev'n Silence " Was took ere she was 'ware, and wished she might " Deny her nature, and be never... | |
 | John Milton, John Dalton - 1791 - 498 pagina’s
...drowsy-flighted steeds " That draw the litter of close-curtain'd Sleep. " At last a soft and solemn breathing sound " Rose like a steam of rich distill'd perfumes, " And stole upon the air, that ev'n Silence " Was took ere she was 'ware, and wished she might " Deny her nature, and be never... | |
 | 1797 - 468 pagina’s
...flighted steeds " That draw the litter of close -curtain'd Sleep. " At last a soft and solemn breathing sound " Rose like a steam of rich distill'd perfumes, " And stole upon the air, that ev'n Silence " Was took ere she was 'ware, and wish'd she might " Deny her nature, and be never... | |
 | John Milton, Thomas Warton - 1799 - 148 pagina’s
...frighted steeds,' That draw the litter of close-curtain'd Sleep; At last a soft and solemn breathing sound Rose like a steam of rich distill'd perfumes, And stole upon the air, that even Silence Was took ere she was ware, and wish'd she might Deny her nature, and be never more,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 392 pagina’s
...1 This musick crept by me upon the waters ;] So, in Milton's Masque: " a soft and solemn breathing sound " Rose like a steam of rich distill'd perfumes, " And stole upon the air." Steevens. 6 Full fathom five th) i father lies; &c.] Ariel's lays, (which have been condemned by Gildon... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 384 pagina’s
...musick crept by me upon the waters ,•] So, in Milton's Masque: " — a soft and solemn breathing sound " Rose like a steam of rich distill'd perfumes, " And stole upon the air." Steeveiis. « Full fathom Jive thy father lies; &c.] Ariel's lays, (which have been condemned by Gildon... | |
 | John Milton - 1808 - 96 pagina’s
...close-curtain'd Sleep.] Perhaps from Shakspeare, Ufae7i, A. ii. At last a soft and solemn-breathing sound 555 Rose like a steam of rich distill'd perfumes, And stole upon the air, that even Silence Was took ere she was ware, and wish'd she might Deny her nature, and be never more,... | |
 | Charles Symmons - 1810 - 690 pagina’s
...borrowed from the object of another sense—by the softness of down; but it is surely a trangressioa which stands in need of pardon when, proceeding a...himself no indifferent poet, acted the part of the b One of the least able and least specious of my public critics, in a periodical publication* which,after... | |
 | Charles Symmons - 1810 - 684 pagina’s
...further and accumulating personifications, we invest this raven-down with life and make it to smile.b Another passage, which represents the effect of the...himself no indifferent poet, acted the part of the b One of the least able and least specious of my public critics, in a periodical publication* which,... | |
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Sleep; At last a soft and solemn-breathing sound Rose like a steam of rich distill'd perfumes, And stole upon the air... 
