 | John Milton - 1813 - 270 pages
...tender shoots; Their port was more than human, as they stood : I took it for a fairy vision Of some gay creatures of the element, 'That in the colours of the rainbow live, 300 And play i' th' plighted clouds. I was awe-struck, And, as I past, I worshipped ; if those you... | |
 | Robert Deverell - Hieroglyphics - 1813 - 354 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., . 30/0 And play i' th' plaited clouds. I wasawe-struck? And as I pass'd I worship'd : if these you... | |
 | Decoration and ornament - 1824 - 334 pages
...retention of the admired powers of this excellent artist. Iris and her Train. — Henry Howard, RA " Gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play in the plighted clouds." We are always delighted with Mr. Howard's poetical pictures; their brilliancy... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Acting - 1818 - 282 pages
...company, with more of the man of business, and not less of the 1 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. — Comus. ' Where Hazlitt was brought up. coxcomb, in his strut and manner,... | |
 | Books - 1819 - 544 pages
...energy; we have more of the wantoning of the imagination, and1 , the conjuring up a fairy vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play in the plighted clouds. It is not necessary to decide whether the ancient or the modem poetry is best;... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 366 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-struck, And, as I pass'd, I worship'd : if those you seek, It were... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1820 - 570 pages
...malevolence. How unlike the the spirits which floated in the entranced vision of onr southern poet! " the gay creatures of the element That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i' the plighted clouds." Yet what is ' the Monastery,' how skilful soever may be its construction,... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1820 - 570 pages
...malevolence. How unlike the spirits which floated in the entranced vision of onr southern poet ! " the gay creatures of the element That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i' the plighted clouds." Yet what is ' the Monastery,' how skilful soever may be its construction,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...tender shoots ; Their port was more than human, as they stood : I took it for a faery vision Of some ding favour of these pines, Slept, as they said, to the next thicket s 30O And play i' the plighted clouds. I was aw-struck. And, as I past, I worshipt ; if those you seek,... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1821 - 82 pages
...whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit: " Fanny. ' A fairy vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live— And play in the plighted clouds-' Milton. Second edition." agement of tanrjintg. by securing the copies of maps,... | |
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