 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1830 - 630 pages
...descriptions of tho benighted Lady's singing, by Comus and the Spirit ! 'Comus. — Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting...breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To.testify his hidden residence: How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence, through the... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - Books and reading - 1832 - 304 pages
...translated to the skies, And give resounding grace to all Heav'n's harmonies. Comus. 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 smil'd ! I have oft... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - Books and reading - 1832 - 312 pages
...translated to the skies, And give resounding grace to all Heav'n's harmonies. Comus. 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 smil'd ! I have oft... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...COMUS. / COM. Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine inchanting ravishment ? 545 Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with...wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night, sso 331 shell] The margin of the Cambridge MS. 'Cell.' Hurd and Warburton observe that ' shell' means... | |
 | Education - 1833 - 412 pages
...try the boy's general knowledge of Greek and Latin. Translate into Greek Iambics, — Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting...moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence. PALEY'S EVIDENCES. 7 1. Explain the ground which Paley takes in his proof of the truth of Christianity.... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 498 pages
...COMUS. COM. Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine inchanting 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... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1834 - 626 pages
...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...testify his hidden residence : How sweetly did they float.upon the wings Of silence, through the empty -vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven... | |
 | 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 - 568 pages
...— Hamlet, Act v. Scene i. or Milton's lines on the sounds of the lady's voice, in Coinus : — ' 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,... | |
 | 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 - 564 pages
...voice, in Comus : — ' How sweetly did they_/Zoa£ upon the wings Of silence through the empty- vaulted night, At every 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,... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1835 - 484 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...fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled! I have oft heard My mother Circe with the Sirens three, Amidst the flowery-kirtled Naiades,... | |
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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. 
