| John Bell - English poetry - 1788 - 628 pages
...steeds, That draw the litter of close-curtain'd Sleep; At last a soft and solemn breathing sound 555 Rose like a steam of rich distill'd perfumes, And stole upon the air, that even Silence Was took ere she was ware, and wish'd she might Deny her nature, and be never more... | |
| John Bell - English drama - 1791 - 294 pages
...drowsy-flighted steeds " That draw the litter of close-curtain'd Sleep. " At last a soft and solemn breathing sound " Rose like a steam of rich distill'd perfumes, " And stole upon the air, that ev'n Silence " Was took ere she was 'ware, and wished she might " Deny her nature, and be never... | |
| John Milton, John Dalton - English drama - 1791 - 498 pages
...drowsy-flighted steeds " That draw the litter of close-curtain'd Sleep. " At last a soft and solemn breathing sound " Rose like a steam of rich distill'd perfumes, " And stole upon the air, that ev'n Silence " Was took ere she was 'ware, and wished she might " Deny her nature, and be never... | |
| English drama - 1797 - 468 pages
...flighted steeds " That draw the litter of close -curtain'd Sleep. " At last a soft and solemn breathing sound " Rose like a steam of rich distill'd perfumes, " And stole upon the air, that ev'n Silence " Was took ere she was 'ware, and wish'd she might " Deny her nature, and be never... | |
| John Milton, Thomas Warton - English drama - 1799 - 148 pages
...frighted steeds,' That draw the litter of close-curtain'd Sleep; At last a soft and solemn breathing sound Rose like a steam of rich distill'd perfumes, And stole upon the air, that even Silence Was took ere she was ware, and wish'd she might Deny her nature, and be never more,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1805 - 384 pages
...musick crept by me upon the waters ,•] So, in Milton's Masque: " — a soft and solemn breathing sound " Rose like a steam of rich distill'd perfumes, " And stole upon the air." Steeveiis. « Full fathom Jive thy father lies; &c.] Ariel's lays, (which have been condemned by Gildon... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1805 - 392 pages
...1 This musick crept by me upon the waters ;] So, in Milton's Masque: " a soft and solemn breathing sound " Rose like a steam of rich distill'd perfumes, " And stole upon the air." Steevens. 6 Full fathom five th) i father lies; &c.] Ariel's lays, (which have been condemned by Gildon... | |
| John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 624 pages
...justly question the propriety of the length to which the poet's fancy has carried him. Darkness inay aptly be represented by the blackness of the raven;...character of Thyrsis— Whose artful strains have oft delay'd The huddling brook to hear his madrigal. He was retained as a domestic in the earl of Bridgewater's... | |
| John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 602 pages
...stillness of that darkness may be paralleled by an image borrowed from the object of another sense—by the softness, of down; but it is surely a transgression,...solemn-breathing sound Rose, like a steam of rich dtstill'd perfumes, And stole upon the air. Henry Lawes the musician, who composed the music for this... | |
| John Milton - 1808 - 96 pages
...close-curtain'd Sleep.] Perhaps from Shakspeare, Ufae7i, A. ii. At last a soft and solemn-breathing sound 555 Rose like a steam of rich distill'd perfumes, And stole upon the air, that even Silence Was took ere she was ware, and wish'd she might Deny her nature, and be never more,... | |
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