 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 332 pages
...fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hap, thou Goddess, sage and holy ! Hail, divinest Melancholy ! Whose saintly visage is too bright, To hit the sense...Wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's* sister might beseem, Or that starr'd Ethiop queen,t that strove To set her beauty's praise... | |
 | 1854 - 456 pages
...pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy ! Hail, divinest Melancholy ! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense...wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem, Or that starred Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above... | |
 | George Croly - 1854 - 426 pages
...hail, thou Goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To lii: the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker...Wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Mcmnon's sister might beseem; Or that starred Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above... | |
 | John Relly Beard - 1854 - 368 pages
...habitual sadness. " But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail divinest melancholy, Whose xaintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight ; And t herefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue." Milton, " II Ponseroso." Mela,... | |
 | 1855 - 458 pages
...pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy ! Hail, divinest Melancholy ! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense...wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem, Or that starred Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 64 pages
...Morpheus' train. But, hail ! thou goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy ! IL PENSEROSO. 15 ^ Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense...Wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem, Or that starr'd Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 564 pages
...fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou goddess sage and holy, Hail divinest Melancholy ! Whose .saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense...Wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem, Or that starred Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...NAs; PoE; SeCePo; Son // Penseroso 15 But hail thou Goddess, sage and holy. Hail divinest Melancholy, lime Upon the seraph-wings of Ecstasy 193 194 30 He...Closed his eyes in endless night. (1. 100-101) 31 (1. 1 1 -16) 16 Come pensive Nun, devout and pure, Sober, steadfast, and demure, All in a robe of darkest... | |
 | Richard Maxwell - 1992 - 454 pages
...eyes" [The Life and Art of Albrecht Diirer, 163]. Panofsky also cites Milton's // Penseroso: [His] saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human...weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid wisdom's hue. The background of Melencolia I has something of this quality too; a rainbow and a comet shine eerily... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1993 - 390 pages
...alludes to this story in his Penseroso, where he addresses Melancholy as the goddess, sage and holy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense...Wisdom's hue. Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem, Or that starred Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above... | |
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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... 
