 | William Ellery Channing - 1834 - 626 pages
...breathes in the descriptions of the benighted Lady's singing, by Comus and the Spirit ! 'Comus. — Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 498 pages
...COMUS. COM. Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine inchanting ravishment ? 245 Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with...wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night, 250 At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smil'd ! I have oft heard My mother... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1834 - 568 pages
...— Hamlet, Act v. Scene i. or Milton's lines on the sounds of the lady's voice, in Coinus : — ' How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence...smoothing the raven down Of darkness, till it smiled.' May not these figures be taken in succession upon the mind's eye, and yet so far linked together, or... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1834 - 564 pages
...voice, in Comus : — ' How sweetly did they_/Zoa£ upon the wings Of silence through the empty- vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness, till it smiled.' May not these figures be taken in succession upon the mind's eye, and yet so far linked together, or... | |
 | James Holman - 1834 - 386 pages
...I could not have believed but they must have been assisted by the finest-toned instruments : — " Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment ?" Much as I had heard of the rapturous effect, it far exceeded any expectation I had formed; notwithstanding,... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1835 - 484 pages
...breathes in the descriptions of the benighted Lady's singing, by Comus and the Spirit! " Comus.—Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine...smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled! I have oft heard My mother Circe with the Sirens three, Amidst the flowery-kirtled Naiades, Culling their... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1835 - 358 pages
...was ware, and wished she might " Deny her nature, and be never more " Still to be so displaced." " 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." " Midnight... | |
 | Author of The young man's own book - 1836 - 336 pages
...harmonies. Comas. Can any morlal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ra vishment? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with...air To testify his hidden residence: How sweetly did lhey float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 526 pages
...Maia's son he stood, And shook his plumes, that heavenly fragrance fill'd The circuit wide. Book v. 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. THE BIRTH... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 360 pages
...Maia's son he stood, And shook his plumes, that heavenly fragrance fill'd The circuit wide. Book v. 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. THE HIRTH... | |
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Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment? 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... 
