 | James Sloan, Theodore Lyman - Italy - 1818 - 406 pages
...exhibition of her powers, or heard her inimitable tones, that I was not ready to exlaim with Milton's Comus, Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with...the vocal air, To testify his hidden residence., How potent then must be the allurements of the Opera, when to the powers of these matchless artists, are... | |
 | Music - 1818 - 564 pages
...quoted passages of MILTON'S Comus describes the difference that we would define : — Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment ? SuRE SOMETHING HOLY LODGES IX THAT BREASTj And with these raptures mores the vocal air To testify his hidden residence : How sweetly... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 366 pages
...thou be translated to the skies, [nies. And give resounding grace to all Heaven's harmo Enter COMCS. And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify...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 Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...grace to all Heaven's harmonies. Enter COMUS. mortal mixture of earth's 240 245 251 Comus. Can any sion dear, raptures'moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence. How sweetly did they float upon tlie... | |
 | 1821 - 274 pages
...passions are all of the same bent as the aspirings of his soul ; they point Heaven-ward ! " CHAPTER IX. " How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence,...the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven-down Of darkness till it smiled ! I took it for a fairy vision Of some gay creatures of the element,... | |
 | sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1821 - 264 pages
...astonishment. He might have exclaimed with Comus, (if Comus had then been written,) " Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould -' Breathe such divine enchanting...ravishment ? Sure something holy lodges in that breast!" " Art thou of earth ?" said .Hal. H 6 " Whence comes this eloquence and energy in a peasant ?" " If... | |
 | Charles Edward Dodd - 1821 - 626 pages
...evening, and the swelling sounds of the organ had a fine effect in the dark stillness around — . i 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— It was night... | |
 | English literature - 1838
...is the food of love." " How sweet her notes do float upon the Of silence, through the empty vaulted night ! At every fall, smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiles." — MILTON. CHARLES WEICHSKLL was a native of Frcyburg, in Saxony, and a musician of much... | |
 | Charles Edward Dodd - German poetry - 1821 - 614 pages
...the evening, and the swelling sounds of the organ had a fine effect in the dark stillness around— 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— It was night... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 548 pages
...human mould, with gross unpurged ear." MALONE. Thus in Comus : Can any mortal mixture of earth's mold Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment ? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, Enter Musicians. Come, ho, and wake Diana with a hymn 4 ; With sweetest touches pierce your mistress'... | |
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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. 
