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 391834Full view - About this book
| John Bell - English poetry - 1788 - 628 pages
...his hidden residencei How sweetly did they flote 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 Naiades... | |
| John Milton, Thomas Warton - English drama - 1799 - 148 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 My mother Circe with the Sirens three, Amidst the flow'ry-kirtled Naiads,... | |
| John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 624 pages
...her boldness, we are doubtful of her safety. In that exquisite passage — How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the rayen down Of darkness till it smiled, if our rapture would suffer us to be sufficiently composed to... | |
| John Milton - 1808 - 96 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 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,... | |
| 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 - 558 pages
...or Milton's lines on the sounds of the lady's voice, in Comus :•— ' How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted...in succession upon the mind's eye, and yet so far linked together, or placed in such harmonious opposition, that a single and unconfused impression may... | |
| John Milton - 1810 - 540 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 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 Milton - 1810 - 414 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 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... | |
| William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 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 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... | |
| Charles Symmons - 1810 - 690 pages
...her boldness, we are doubtful of her safety. In that exquisite passage— How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the ravep down Pf darkness till it smiled, if our rapture would suffer us to be sufficiently composed to... | |
| Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - Translating and interpreting - 1813 - 466 pages
...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, Amidst the flow'ry-kirtled Naiades, My mother Circe, with the Sirens three,... | |
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