 | John Bell - 1788 - 628 str.
...his hidden residencei How sweetly did they flote upon the wings Of Silence, through the empty vaulted Night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smil'd! I have oft heard My mother Circe with the Sirens three, Amidst the flow'ry-kirtled Naiades... | |
 | John Bell - 1791 - 294 str.
...ravishment? " Sure something holy lodges in that breast, " And with these raptures moves the vocal air goo " To testify his hidden residence : " How sweetly did..." Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, " At ev'ry fall smoothing the raven down " Of darkness till it smil'd ! I have oft' heard " My mother Circe,... | |
 | 1797 - 468 str.
...? " Sure something holy lodges in that breast, " And with these raptures moves the vocal air 303 " To testify his hidden residence : " How sweetly did..." Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, " At ev'ry fall smoothing the raven down " Of darkness till it smil'd ! I have oft' heard " My mother Circe,... | |
 | John Milton, Thomas Warton - 1799 - 148 str.
...divine enchanting ravishment ? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence. How...fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness, till it smil'd! I have oft heard My mother Circe with the Sirens three, Amidst the flow'ry-kirtled Naiads,... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 624 str.
...precipice, and, while we admire her boldness, we are doubtful of her safety. In that exquisite passage — How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence...the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the rayen down Of darkness till it smiled, if our rapture would suffer us to be sufficiently composed to... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 602 str.
...precipice, and, while we admire her boldness, we are doubtful of her safety. In that exquisite passage— How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, At ewry fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled, if our rapture would suffer us to be... | |
 | John Milton - 1808 - 96 str.
...enchanting ravishment ? 845 Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence. How...empty-vaulted night, At every fall, smoothing the raven-down Of darkness, till it smil'd ! I have oft heard My mother, Circe, with the Syrens three,... | |
 | 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 - 558 str.
...— Hamlet, Act v. Scene i. or Milton's lines on the sounds of the lady's voice, in Comus :•— ' 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... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - 1809 - 332 str.
...far oft', Comus. (Aside.) " 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, thro' the empty-vaulted night. At ev'ry fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness, 'till it smil'd;... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 414 str.
...divine enchanting ravishment ? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence. How...the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven-down Of darkness, till it smil'd ! I have oft heard My mother Circe with the Syrens three, Amidst... | |
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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,... 
