 | Richard Maxwell - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 454 pages
...eyes" [The Life and Art of Albrecht Diirer, 163]. Panofsky also cites Milton's // Penseroso: [His] saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid wisdom's hue. The background of Melencolia... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - Fiction - 1993 - 390 pages
...alludes to this story in his Penseroso, where he addresses Melancholy as the goddess, sage and holy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And, therefore, to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue. Black, but such as in esteem... | |
 | Philip Koch - Philosophy - 1994 - 400 pages
...Melancholy ,/Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born," but "II Penseroso" exclaims, "Hail, divines) Melancholy!/ Whose saintly visage is too bright/ To hit the sense of human sight." (Both poems are found in Spencer, op. cit., pp. 556-60) 32. Cited in Vickers, op. cit., p. xiv. 33.... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...7/ Penseroso' As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the sunbeams. 7496 'II Penseroso' Hail, divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight; And therefore to our weaker view, O'erlaid with black staid wisdom's hue. 7497 71 Penseroso' Come,... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - Foreign Language Study - 2001 - 688 pages
...forlorn, Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy. -Milton, /, 'Allegro ( 1 63 1 ) Hail, thou goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy!...visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue. -Milton, // Penseroso (1631)... | |
 | Jonathan F. S. Post - Electronic books - 2002 - 346 pages
...bitth With two sistet Gmces mote To lvy-ctowned Bacchas bote; ("L'Allegto," 11. 11-16) But hail thou Goddess, sage and holy. Hail divinest Melancholy, Whose Saintly visage is too btight To hit the Sense of hurnan sight; And thetefote to out weaket view, O'etlaid with hlack, staid... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 2003 - 1084 pages
...the Sunbeams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle Pensioners of Morpheus' train. 10 But hail thou Goddess, sage and holy, Hail divinest Melancholy,...visage is too bright To hit the Sense of human sight; And therefore to our weaker view, 15 O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue. Black, but such as in... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...the sunbeams, Or tikest hovering dreams The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train.0 10 But hail thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail divinest Melancholy,...saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight;0 And therefore to our weaker view, O'erlaid with black staid wisdom's hue.0 Black, but such... | |
 | Manning Marable - History - 2003 - 766 pages
...worship womankind studiously forgets its darker sisters. They seem in a sense to typify that veiled Melancholy: Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And, therefore, to our weaker view O'er-laid with black. Yet the world must heed these daughters of... | |
 | Derek Wilson - Fiction - 2004 - 284 pages
...nestled her chin into the fur collar. Strolling beside her, Kathryn Gye recited pensively, 'Hail thou goddess sage and holy, Hail divinest Melancholy, Whose...visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue.' 'Milton?' June asked. 'Yes,... | |
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But hail, thou goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight... 
