 Sure something holy lodges in that 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 empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of Darkness...  The Quarterly Review - Page 39edited by - 1834Full view - About this book
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1788 - 628 pages
...with these raptures moves the vocal Air To testify his hidden residencei How sweetly did they flote upon the wings Of Silence, through the empty vaulted...fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smil'd! I have oft heard My mother Circe with the Sirens three, Amidst the flow'ry-kirtled Naiades... | |
 | John Milton, Thomas Warton - English drama - 1799 - 148 pages
...his hidden residence. 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 smil'd! I have oft heard My mother Circe with the Sirens three, Amidst the flow'ry-kirtled Naiads,... | |
 | Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - Translating and interpreting - 1813 - 466 pages
...with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence : How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty- vaulted...fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smil'd : I have oft heard, Amidst the flow'ry-kirtled Naiades, My mother Circe, with the Sirens three,... | |
 | Robert Deverell - Hieroglyphics - 1813 - 354 pages
...alluring locks — Rise, rise, and heave thy rosy head." as before in the remarkable passage in line 251, At every fall smoothing the raven .down Of darkness till it smiled — So again in Lycidas, a poem of Milton, which, in many parts of it, has a considerable bearing upon... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 634 pages
...alluring locks — Rise, rise, and heave thy rosy head." as before in the remarkable passage in line 2,31, At every fall smoothing the raven -down Of darkness till it smiled — So again in Lycidas, a poem of Milton, which, in many parts of it, has a considerable bearing upon... | |
 | English literature - 1820 - 608 pages
...his hidden residence. 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 smil'd ! I have oft heard My mother Circe with the Syrens three, Amidst the flowery-kirtled Naiades,... | |
 | English literature - 1838
...BII.LINGTON. " Music rules the world above Music 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
...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 when I reached Boppart, and the aquatic diligence... | |
 | Charles Edward Dodd - 1821 - 626 pages
...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 when I reached Boppart, and the aquatic diligence... | |
 | Charles Symmons - Fore-edge paintings - 1822 - 526 pages
...exquisite passage — 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, if our rapture would suffer us to be sufficiently composed to consult our reason, we might, perhaps,... | |
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