 | John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...harmonies. COM. Can any mortal mixture of Earth's moU Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment ? N 8 Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the voca1 Air To testify his Imld. n residence : How sweetly did they flote upon the wings Of silenfe,... | |
 | John Milton - 1808 - 96 pages
...Comus. COMUS, Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment ? 845 Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with...empty-vaulted night, At every fall, smoothing the raven-down Of darkness, till it smil'd ! I have oft heard My mother, Circe, with the Syrens three,... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1809 - 332 pages
...ventured, " for my new enliven'd spirits Prompt me," and they perhaps are not far oft', Comus. (Aside.) " Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with...sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence, thro' the empty-vaulted night. At ev'ry fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness, 'till it smil'd;... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1834 - 558 pages
...— Hamlet, Act v. Scene i. or Milton's lines on the sounds of the lady's voice, in Comus :•— ' 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,... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 414 pages
...vengeance, Would send a glistering guardian, if need were, Ц I . COMUS. Enter COMÜS. Comus. Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting...the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven-down Of darkness, till it smil'd ! I have oft heard My mother Circe with the Syrens three, Amidst... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 pages
...O, if thou have Hid them in some flowery cave, Tell me but where, Enter COMUS. Comus. Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting...the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven-down Of darkness, till it smil'd ! I have oft heard My mother Circe with the Syrens three, Amidst... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...COMWS. Comns. Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment ? isure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these...the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven-down Of darkness, till it smil'd ! I have oft heard My mother Circe with the Syrens three, Amidst... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...Comus. Comui. Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould "Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment? 245 Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with...upon the wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted uight, At every fall smoothing the raven-down 251 Of darkness, till it smil'd ! I have oft heard My... | |
 | Charles Symmons - 1810 - 690 pages
...precipice, and, while we admire her boldness, we are doubtful of her safety. In that exquisite passage— How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence...the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the ravep down Pf darkness till it smiled, if our rapture would suffer us to be sufficiently composed to... | |
 | Eleanor Sleath - 1810 - 208 pages
...AUTHOR OF *" THE ORPHAN OF THE RHINE, WHO'S THE MURDERER ? BRIsTOL HEIREss, $C. '5fC. Cad any mortal mixture of earth's mould, Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment? Sure something holy lod^ea in that hreajt, And with these rapture* moves the vocal air, To testify hit hidden residence... | |
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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. 
