 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - Children's literature, English - 1854 - 332 pages
...dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hap, thou Goddess, sage and holy ! Hail, divinest Melancholy ! Whose saintly visage is too bright, To...sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's* sister might... | |
 | John Relly Beard - 1854 - 368 pages
...habitual sadness. " But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail divinest melancholy, Whose xaintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight ; And t herefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue." Milton, " II Ponseroso." Mela,... | |
 | John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 pages
...dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou goddess sage and holy, Hail divinest Melancholy ! Whose .saintly visage is too bright To...sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might... | |
 | 1855 - 540 pages
...dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy! Whose saintly visage is too bright To...sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To...of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view, O'erlaid with Clack, staid wisdom's hue; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's 1 sister might... | |
 | American poetry - 1855 - 458 pages
...dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy ! Hail, divinest Melancholy ! Whose saintly visage is too bright To...sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - American poetry - 1855 - 452 pages
...dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus9 train. But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy ! Hail, divinest Melancholy ! Whose saintly visage is too bright To...sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1855 - 610 pages
...affeetion. John Forfs Lover1s Melaneholy. But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest melaneholy! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense...of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view, O'erlaid with blaek, staid wisdom's hue. Mlltm's II Penseroso. These pleasures, melaneholy, give, And... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - Animals, Mythical - 1855 - 508 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, hut such as in esteem Prince Memnou's sister might... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 574 pages
...dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy ! Hail, divinest 1 1 G 1 O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might... | |
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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... 
