 | 442 pages
...peries — " Their port was more ' than ' human as they stood ; I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i' th' plighted clouds." 1 It is by no means credible, however, that Milton had any knowledge of the... | |
 | Bette Charlene Werner - English poetry - 1986 - 328 pages
...with the rainbow: Their port was more then human, as they stood; I took it for a faery vision Of soin gay creatures of the element That in the colours of the Rainbow live And play i'th plighted clouds.'1" The Attendant Spirit's description locates the rainbow beyond the earth in... | |
 | John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...tender shoots, Their port was more then human, as they flood; I took it for a faery vision Ofsomgay creatures of the element That in the colours of the Rainbow live And play i'th plighted clouds. I was aw-slrook, And as Ipasl, I worshipt: if those you seek It were a journey... | |
 | Thomas Bacon, Meadows Taylor - Fiction - 1996 - 296 pages
...romance and brooding mystery, have each their proper homes. Erewhile I took it for a fairy region Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i" th" plighted clouds ; and now, though not a passing shadow has fallen to change my mood, nor yet... | |
 | Earl Roy Miner, William Moeck, Steven Edward Jablonski - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 520 pages
...scoule, / Made Heavens radiant face looke foule." [T] 490 Element. The sky. OED cites Comus 298-300, "som gay creatures of the element / That in the colours of the Rainbow live / And play i'th' plighted clouds." [V-EM] 496-505 О shame to Men . . . for his destruction waite. It has been... | |
 | John Milton - Fiction - 2006 - 94 pages
...tender shoots; Their port was more than human, as they stood. I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i 1 the plighted clouds. I was awe-strook, And, as I passed, I worshiped. If those you seek, It were... | |
 | John Milton - 2006 - 66 pages
...tender shoots; Their port was more than human, as they stood. I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i' the plighted clouds. I was awe-strook, And, as I passed, I worshiped. If those you seek, It were... | |
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Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots ; Their port was more than human, as they stood : I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i 
