 Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To 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 down Of Darkness...  Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature - Pagina 546geredigeerd door - 1873Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pagina’s
...raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence. How sweetly dill 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 heard My mother Circe with the sirens three, Amidst... | |
 | 1872 - 810 pagina’s
...and sing the invocation to Sabrina ; the swart youth who shall be the magic1an, and say the lines, " At every fall, smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled " ; and the golden-haired maid who shall glide in and out in silvery attire, as the attendant spirit.... | |
 | Henry Musgrave Wilkins - 1857 - 210 pagina’s
...Fragments of a Speech quoted by HARRIS, Philolog. Enquiries, p. 204. ' 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 smiled.' — MILTON. The subject of metaphors is treated by Quintilian,... | |
 | John Milton - 1901 - 418 pagina’s
...residence. How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence, through the emptyj-vaulted night, 250 At every 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, , Culling... | |
 | John Milton - 1901 - 412 pagina’s
...residence. How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night, 250 At every 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, Culling... | |
 | John Milton - 1901 - 180 pagina’s
...residence. How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night, 250 At every 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, Culling... | |
 | 1903 - 1186 pagina’s
...ravishment ? Line su. How sweetly did they float upon the wings • Of silence through the empty- vanlted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smil'd ! Camus. Line 249. Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium. Line... | |
 | John Milton - 1903 - 694 pagina’s
...these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence. How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night,...smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled l I have oft heard My mother Circe with the Sirens three, Amidst the flowery-kirtled Naiades, Culling... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1903 - 1186 pagina’s
...earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment ? Line 244. How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted night,...fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it srniPd ! Comus. Line Z4» Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium. u*e... | |
 | John Milton - 1903 - 434 pagina’s
...residence. How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night, 250 At every 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, Culling... | |
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