Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" Hence, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born In Stygian cave forlorn 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy ! Find out some uncouth cell, Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night-raven sings... "
British Theatre - Page 47
by John Bell - 1791
Full view - About this book

Poetry for Home and School ...

1846 - 436 pages
...If envy or age had not frozen your blood, At the sorrow of my sweet pipings. L' ALLEGRO. — Milton. HENCE, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest...forlorn, 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights un holy, Find out some uncouth cell, Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night...
Full view - About this book

The Gem book of poesie, by the author of 'The ancient poets and poetry of ...

Gem book - 1846 - 398 pages
...of Greece ; Return in all thy simple state ; Confirm the tales her sons relate. COLLINS. L'ALLEGRO. HENCE, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest...forlorn, 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unFind out some uncouth cell, [holy ; Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night-raven...
Full view - About this book

Cyclopædia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...and blackest midnight bom, In Stygian cave forlorn, 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sight« ine eyes \ But thou art ready there to catch My mourning...soul and sacrifice, Then we must needs for that day ebon shades, and -low-brow'd rocke, As ragged as thy locks, In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell. But...
Full view - About this book

Cyclopaedia of English Literature: First period, from the earliest times to 1400

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...House at Forest НШ, near Orford ; the scenery around which is described in L' Allegro. L' Allegro. r talk, I asked her, why she would lose such pastime in the park Î Smiling, she answered 'Hongst horrid shapes, and ehriekj, and sights unholy ; Find out some uncouth cell, Where brooding...
Full view - About this book

L'Allegro and Il Penseroso

John Milton - 1848 - 154 pages
...1848. HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY IN MEMORY OF LIONEL DE JERSEY HARVARD CLASS OF 1915 "Via*. 10, "fit 4 ' I 'HENCE, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest...brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night raven sings; There under ebon shades, and low-brow'd rocks, As ragged as thy locks, In dark Cimmerian...
Full view - About this book

The Central literary magazine, Volume 4

Birmingham central literary assoc - 1879 - 456 pages
...is altogether despicable, and what kind of mirth is worthless. " The cheerful man " exclaims — " Hence, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest...'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy !" But " the pensive man," in his invocation, expresses the true character of that thoughtfulness which...
Full view - About this book

The Unremarkable Wordsworth

Geoffrey H. Hartman - 1987 - 281 pages
...new-style, reflect a freer attitude of the mind toward the fictions it entertains. The change from Hence loathed Melancholy Of Cerberus, and blackest...'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy to Come pensive Nun, devout and pure, Sober, stedfast, and demure recapitulates the entire Renaissance...
Limited preview - About this book

Romantic Parodies, 1797-1831

David A. Kent, D. R. Ewen - Humor - 1992 - 428 pages
...whose age at least, and staid matron-like appearance, might have entitled her to more civil language. Hence loathed Melancholy; Of Cerberus and blackest midnight born In Stygian cave forlorn, &c. There is no giving rules, however, in these matters, without a knowledge of the case. Perhaps the...
Limited preview - About this book

The Works of John Milton: With an Introduction and Bibliography

John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...gone; L'Aflegro46 Hence, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus47 and blackest Midnight born In Stygian48 cave forlorn 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and...jealous wings, And the night-raven sings; There, under ebon shades and low-browed rocks, As ragged as thy locks, In dark Cimmerian desert49 ever dwell. 10...
Limited preview - About this book

Squitter-wits and Muse-haters: Sidney, Spenser, Milton, and Renaissance ...

Peter C. Herman - History - 1996 - 294 pages
...rejections in imaginative terms. L'Allegro's opening words ("Hence loathed Melancholy / Of Cerebus and blackest midnight born, / in Stygian Cave forlorn...'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy" [1-4] echo the association in Renaissance psychological texts between creativity and the diseased imagination....
Limited preview - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF