 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 Milton - Bible - 1823 - 220 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...smoothing the raven down Of darkness, till it smiled ! I have oft heard My mother Circe with the Syrens three, Amidst the flowery Jdrtled Naiades, Culling... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence : How sweetly did they float smil'd ! I have oft heard My mother Circe, with the Sirens three, Amidst the flow'ry-kirtled Naiades... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 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 smiled ! I have oft heard My mother Circe, with the Syrens three, Amidst the flowery-kirtled Naiades, Culling... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...Milton has spoken of the Raven of the Night as a bird of evil omen : — How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of Silence, through the empty vaulted Night, At every fall soothing the Raven down ! — Comns. Besides giving a fictitious character to real birds and animals,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 428 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 24,5 &c.] Before these words there is in the manuscript, Comun looks in and... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 312 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 Naiades... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1826 - 548 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 My mother Circe with the Sirens three, Amidst the flow'ry-kirtled Naiades,... | |
 | Sir Arthur Brooke Faulkner - Paris (France) - 1827 - 426 pages
...notturno of great beauty and delicacy in the Fiorella, which reminded me of " The strains that float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty vaulted...smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled." Last night satisfied me that the only part of a theatre to hear music to perfection is the centre of... | |
 | United States - 1827 - 634 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 ! 1 have oft heard Mv mother Circe with the Sirens three, Amidst the flow'ry-kirtled Naiades,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1828 - 562 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 My mother Circe with the Sirens three, Amidst the flow'ry-kirtled Naiades,... | |
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