 | 1855 - Страниц: 540
...people the sun-beams Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy!...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... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1855 - Страниц: 508
...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... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - Страниц: 610
...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... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - Страниц: 578
...people the sunbeams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou to whom we yield Glories unsought, the fathers of the field ; And these who take from And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem... | |
 | Collection - 1856 - Страниц: 120
...people the sunbeams, Or likest hovering dreams The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy ! Hail divinest Melancholy...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... | |
 | John Eagles - 1856 - Страниц: 416
...uses the pearly atmosphere, but likewise dips her pencil in the clouds, and if there be anything " Whose saintly visage is too bright, To hit the sense of human sight," she therefore glazes them over — " To our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid wisdom's hue." Pictor.... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - Страниц: 334
...the sunbeams ; Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail ! thou goddess sage and holy, Hail ! divinest Melancholy...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... | |
 | Stanley Fish - 1980 - Страниц: 412
...distinction (or series of distinctions) we are pressured to make. That pressure is felt as soon as we hear, "Hail divinest Melancholy, / Whose Saintly visage is too bright / To hit the sense of human sight" (12—14). These lines turn on a paradox, and it is in the nature of a paradox that a reader who recognizes... | |
 | William Bridges Hunter (Jr.) - 1986 - Страниц: 260
...spiritual truth that is too bright for the carnal eye: But hail thou Goddes, sage and holy, Hail divmest Melancholy, Whose Saintly visage is too bright To hit the Sense of human sight; And therfore to our weaker view, Ore laid with black staid Wisdoms hue. (11-16) And to counter the... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - Страниц: 1172
...eye. (1. 1—14) FF; HelP; InPS; LiTB; NAEL-1; NAs; PoE; SeCePo; Son // Penseroso 15 But hail thou l face: (1. 82-86) 29 Nor second He, that rode sublime...seraph-wings of Ecstasy 193 194 30 He saw: but blaste And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue; (1. 1 1 -16) 16 Come pensive... | |
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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... 
