 | British poets - 1809 - 512 pages
...commercing with the skies, Thy 'rapt soul sitting in thine eyes ; There held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, till With a sad leaden downward cast Thou fix them on the earth as fast, And join with thee calm Peace and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet, And hear the muses... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 490 pages
...commercing with the skies, Thy 'rapt soul sitting in thine eyes ; There held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, till With a sad leaden downward cast Thou fix them on the earth as fast, And join with thee calm Peace and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft witli gods dotli diet, And hear the muses... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 418 pages
...commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes i There, held in holy passion still* With a sad leaden downward cast Thou fix them on the earth as fast: And join with thee calm Peace, and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with Gods doth diet, ^nd hears the Muses... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes: There, held in holy passion still, With a sad leaden downward cast . .' Thou fix them on the earth as fast: And join with thee calm Peace, and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with Gods doth diet, And hears the Muses... | |
 | John Walker - 1811 - 568 pages
...from Milton's Penseroso : see liis Description of Melancholy. There held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, till With a sad leaden downward cast Thou fix them on the earth as fast. [* It is in the last line of his Ode to Evening: O modest Evening ! oft let me appearA waiul'riug votary... | |
 | John Walker - 1811 - 554 pages
...Milton's Penseroso: see iiis Description of Melancholy. .• There held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, till With a sad leaden downward cast Thou fix them on the earth asfast. \* It is in the last line of bis Ode to Evening: O modest Evening! oft let me appear A waud'ring... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 270 pages
...soul sitting in thine eyes : 49 There, held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble) till 1 "With a sad leaden downward cast Thou fix them on the earth as fast : ^ And join with thee calm Peace, and Quiet* 45 Spare Fast, that oft with God§ dolh diet, And hears... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...the skie*, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes : BOOK IV. There, held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, till With a sad leaden downward cast Thou fix them on the earth as fast : And join with thee calm Peace and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with Gods doth diet, And hears the... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pages
...hue," IlPenser. 16. W. Ver. 28. And Melancholy, silent maid, With leaden eye that loves the ground] " With a sad leaden downward cast, Thou fix them on the earth as fast." II Penser. 43. W. Dryden's Cimon and Iphig. ver. 57. " And stupid eyes that ever loved the ground."... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 pages
...commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes: There heM in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, till With a sad leaden downward cast Thou fix them on the earth as fast: And join with thee calm Peace and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet, And hears the Muses... | |
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Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step and musing gait And looks commercing with the skies... 
