 | Eliphalet L. Rice - American literature - 1846 - 432 pages
...noon-day about him, in the other, the shades of night. L'ALLEGRO. Hence, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerebus and blackest midnight born, In Stygian cave forlorn,...shades, and low-brow'd rocks. As ragged as thy locks, In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell. But come, thou goddess, fair and free, In heaven yclept Euphrosyne,... | |
 | Gem book - 1846 - 398 pages
...state ; Confirm the tales her sons relate. COLLINS. L'ALLEGRO. HENCE, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born, In Stygian cave forlorn, 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unFind out some uncouth cell, [holy ; Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night-raven... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...blood, At the sorrow of my sweet pipings. L' ALLEGRO. — Milton. HENCE, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born ! In Stygian cave forlorn, 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights un holy, Find out some uncouth cell, Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...and blackest midnight bom, In Stygian cave forlorn, 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sight« ine eyes \ But thou art ready there to catch My mourning...soul and sacrifice, Then we must needs for that day rocke, As ragged as thy locks, In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell. But come, thou goddesa fair and... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...Of Cerberus and blackest midnight born, In Stygian cave forlorn, 'Hongst horrid shapes, and ehriekj, park is hut a jealou» wings. And the night-raven sings ; There under ebon shades, and low-brow'd rocks, Ai ragged... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1879 - 456 pages
...kind of mirth is worthless. " The cheerful man " exclaims — " Hence, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born In Stygian cave forlorn,...'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy !" But " the pensive man," in his invocation, expresses the true character of that thoughtfulness which... | |
 | Geoffrey H. Hartman - 1987 - 281 pages
...of the mind toward the fictions it entertains. The change from Hence loathed Melancholy Of Cerberus, and blackest midnight born, In Stygian Cave forlorn...'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy to Come pensive Nun, devout and pure, Sober, stedfast, and demure recapitulates the entire Renaissance... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...gone; L'Aflegro46 Hence, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus47 and blackest Midnight born In Stygian48 cave forlorn 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and...the night-raven sings; There, under ebon shades and low-browed rocks, As ragged as thy locks, In dark Cimmerian desert49 ever dwell. 10 But come, thou... | |
 | Peter C. Herman - History - 1996 - 294 pages
...rejections in imaginative terms. L'Allegro's opening words ("Hence loathed Melancholy / Of Cerebus and blackest midnight born, / in Stygian Cave forlorn...'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy" [1-4] echo the association in Renaissance psychological texts between creativity and the diseased imagination.... | |
 | Joseph Peter Swain - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 252 pages
...In short, syntactic simplicity is traded for a musical pattern. Hence loathed Melancholy Of Cerberus and blackest midnight born, In Stygian Cave forlorn...shades, and low-brow'd Rocks, —As ragged as thy Locks, In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell. MILTON, "L'ALLEGRO"' This stanza of Milton is shot through with... | |
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Hence loathed Melancholy Of Cerberus and blackest midnight born, In Stygian Cave forlorn 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy, Find out some uncouth cell, Where brooding darkness spreads his jealous wings... 
