 | 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 I has something of this quality... | |
 | 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 Prince Memnon's sister might... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...Morpheus'63 train. 10 But, hail! thou Goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy! Whose saindy 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 Prince Memnon's sister64 might... | |
 | Philip Koch - Philosophy - 1994 - 400 pages
..."Hence, loathed 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.... | |
 | John Read - Science - 1995 - 260 pages
...design likewise 'leans forward massively' with darkened face, because, in Milton's words, her saindy 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. Number, Harmony, and Music Measurement is dependent upon number,... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the sunbeams. 7496 'II Penseroso' Hail, divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To...of human sight; And therefore to our weaker view, O'erlaid with black staid wisdom's hue. 7497 71 Penseroso' Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, Sober,... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - Foreign Language Study - 2001 - 688 pages
...and sights unholy. -Milton, /, 'Allegro ( 1 63 1 ) 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. -Milton, // Penseroso (1631) mel IV: limb; then musical section;... | |
 | Rudolph P. Byrd, Beverly Guy-Sheftall - Family & Relationships - 2001 - 406 pages
...sisters. They seem in a sense to typify that veiled Melancholy: Whose saintly visage is too bright 'lb hit the sense of human sight. And, therefore, to our weaker view O'er-hiid with black. That starr'd Ethiop queen who strove To set her beauty's praise above The sea-nymphs... | |
 | Rudolph P. Byrd, Beverly Guy-Sheftall - Family & Relationships - 2001 - 406 pages
...sisters. They seem in a sense to typify that veiled Melancholy: Whose saintly visage is too bright 'Ib hit the sense of human sight, And, therefore, to our weaker view O'er-laid with black. That starr'd Ethiop queen who strove To set her beauty's praise above The sea-nymphs... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 2003 - 1084 pages
...dreams, The fickle Pensioners of Morpheus' train. 10 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, 15 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... 
