 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...tongue as smooth as glass : He told of saints and popes, and evermore He strow'd an Ave-Mary after and before. The drooping night thus creepeth on them fast, And the sad humor loading their eyelids, As messenger of Morpheus, on them cast Sweet slumbering dew, the which... | |
 | Edwin Guest - English language - 1838 - 342 pages
...occasionally? but rarely, misplaced. In such cases, the false accentuation is now particularly offensive. The drooping night thus creepeth on them fast, And...eyelids\, As messenger of Morpheus, on them cast Sweet slumb'ring dew, the which to sleep them bids. Trebly augmented was his furious mood With bitter sense... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...propriety of the word " descant," which means a song with various notes. 614. Fairy Queen, L 36 :— " The drooping night thus creepeth on them fast, And the sad humour loading their eyelids, As messengers of Morpheus, on them cast Sweet slumbering dew, the which to sleep them bids." — (TA.)... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 pages
...tongue as smooth as glass: He told of saints and popes, and evermore He strew'd an Ave Mary, after and before. The drooping night thus creepeth on them...lodgings then his guests he rids; Where, when all drown'd in deadly sleep he finds, He to his study goes, and there amids' His magic books and arts of... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 372 pages
...of saints and popes, and evermore He strew' d an Ave Mary, after and before. The drooping night thua creepeth on them fast ; And the sad humour, loading...lodgings then his guests he rids ; Where, when all drown'd in deadly sleep he finds, He to his study goes, and there amids' His magic books and arts of... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...and before. The drooping night thus creepelh on them fast; And the sad humor, loading their eye-ltds, As messenger of Morpheus, on them cast Sweet slumbering...lodgings then his guests he rids ; Where, when all drown'd in deadly sleep he finds, He to his study goes, and their amids' Hts magic books and arts of... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...tongue as smooth as glass : He told of saints and popes, and evermore He strew'd an Ave Mary, after and before. The drooping night thus creepeth on them fast; And the sad humor, loading their eye-lids, As messenger of Morpheus, on them cast Sweet slumbering dew; the which... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Literature - 1845 - 356 pages
...his tongue as smooth as glass. He told of saints and popes, and evermore He strowed an Ave-Mary after and before. The drooping night thus creepeth on them fast; And the sad humor loading their eyelids, As messenger of Morpheus, on them cast Sweet slumbering dew, the which... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...tongue as smooth as glass : He told of saints and popes, and evermore He strew' d an Ave Mary, after and before, The drooping night thus creepeth on them fast ; And the sad humor, loading their eye-lids, As messenger of Morpheus, on them cast Sweet slumbering dew ; the which... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 280 pages
...tongue as smooth as glass: He told of saints and popes, and evermore He strew'd an Ave Mary, afier and before. The drooping night thus creepeth on them fast; And the sad humor, loading their eye-lids, As messenger of Morpheus, on them cast Sweet slumbering dew; the which... | |
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The drooping night thus creepeth on them fast ; And the sad humour, loading their eye-lids, As messenger of Morpheus, on them cast Sweet slumbering dew ; the which to sleep them bids. 
