 QUEEN and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess excellently bright. Earth, let not thy envious shade Dare itself to interpose; Cynthia's shining...  The Atlantic Monthly - Page 2521867Full view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1863 - 438 pages
...loads the day, And, when God sends a cheerful hour, refrains. J. Milton LXXVII I HYMN TO DIANA QUEEN and Huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid...excellently bright. Lay thy bow of pearl apart And thy crystal-shining quiver ; Give unto the flying hart Space to breathe, how short soever : Thou that mak'st... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...not abide him. Since ye hear his falser play, And that he's Venus' run-away. HYMN TO CYNTHIA. Queen and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid...light, Goddess, excellently bright Earth, let not thy en%-ious shade Dare itself to interpose; Cynthia's shining orb was made Heaven to clear, when day did... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 326 pages
...deadly store ; A silver crescent on her forehead shone. DRYDEN. ••titi" HYMN TO CYNTHIA. QUEEN and huntress ! chaste and fair ! Now the sun is laid...Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess, excellently bright ! Lay thy bow of pearl apart, And thy crystal shining quiver, Give unto the flying hart Space to breathe,... | |
 | Children's literature, English - 1863 - 348 pages
...the chase, and delighted in bunting. In " Cynthia's revels " Ben Jonson addresses her : — " Queen and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid...silver chair State in wonted manner keep. Hesperus desires thy light, Goddess excellently bright." The dark spots on the moon's face must have been noticed... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 982 pages
...loads the day, And, when God sends a cheerful hour, refrains. J. Milton Q LXXVIII HYMN TO DIANA UEEN and Huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair Earth, let' not thy envious shade Dare itself to interpose ; Cynthia's shining orb was made Heaven... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1863 - 722 pages
...That buy the merry madness of an hour, With the long irksomeness of following time! (Ibid.) 2. Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seate'l i» thy silver chair, Siate in wonted manner keep.... f Lay thy bow of pearl apifrt, And thy... | |
 | Leonard R. N. Ashley - England - 1988 - 330 pages
...upon some craggy hill, Drop, drop, drop, drop, Since nature's pride is now a withered daffodil. Queen and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid...excellently bright. Lay thy bow of pearl apart, And thy crystal shining quiver; Give unto the flying hart Space to breathe, how short soever: Thou that mak'st... | |
 | Muriel Clara Bradbrook - Drama - 1989 - 238 pages
.... . . to Ben Jonson she is a heavenly being from an older religion, Cynthia, still excelling. Queen and huntress chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid...Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess excellently bright. John Lyly wrote plays in her praise, as he also wrote wittily to provide models of conversation for... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley - Art - 1995 - 682 pages
...bear, the boar, the dog, the goat, and specially the hind. 33. Jonson's Hymn to Cynthia (Diana). Queen and Huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid...excellently bright. Lay thy bow of pearl apart, And thy crystal-shining quiver ; Give unto the flying hart Space to breathe, how short soever : Thou that mak'st... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...EIL; ELP; InvP; JCP; LiTB; NOBE; NoP; OBEY; OPOP; PoEL-2; Prim; SeCP; SeCV-1 Cynthia's Revels 3 Queen gles blow. (1. 1—7) 6 Mind not the AWP; CH; ChTr: EIL; GN; GTBS; GTBS-P; HAP; HelP; InPS; JCP; NAEL-1; NOBE; NoP; OAEL-I; OBEV; OBS; PoE;... | |
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