 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 272 pages
...resounding grace to all heaven's harmonies. Enter COMUS. COMUS. Can any mortal mixture of earth's mold Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment ! Sure something...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 Syrens three, Amidst... | |
 | Charles Symmons - Fore-edge paintings - 1822 - 526 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...fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled, if our rapture would suffer us to be sufficiently composed to consult our reason, we might,... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1823 - 220 pages
...the skies, And give resounding grace to all Heaven's harmonics. Enter COMUS. Comns. Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting...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... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...skies, And give resounding grace to all heaven's harmonic-s. 21 • Enter COMUS. Comus. Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting...fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness, till it smiled ! I have oft heard My mother Circe, with the Syrens three, Amidst the flowery-kirtled Naiades,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...thou be translated to the skies, AndgiveresoundinggracetoallHeav'n'sharmonies. Connu. Can any mortal empty vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smil'd ! I have oft... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...harmonies. Corma. Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment? 245 Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with...wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night, 250 At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smil'd! I have oft heard My mother Circe... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 414 pages
...6. 1. This play was first acted in 1 600. T Wat tun. Breathe such divine inchanting ravishment? 945 Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with...wings Of Silence, through the empty-vaulted night, 250 At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smil'd! I have oft heard &c.] Before... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 428 pages
..." ribs of death," are found to be the voice " of my most honour'd " Lady," v. 564. T. Warton. 246. Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with...moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence:'] That is, " Something holy inha' biting that breast, courts the ' air, the vehicle of sound, to ' give... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...be the Madagascar Bat. Even Milton has spoken of the Raven of the Night as a bird of evil omen : — How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of Silence, through the empty vaulted Night, At every fall soothing the Raven down ! — Comns. Besides giving a fictitious... | |
 | United States - 1827 - 634 pages
...the descriptions of the benighted Lady's singing, by Comus and the Spirit ! \ COMUS. Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting...smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smil.d ! 1 have oft heard Mv mother Circe with the Sirens three, Amidst the flow'ry-kirtled Naiades, Culling... | |
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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. 
