 | John Milton - 1850 - 704 pages
...anthems clear, As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes. And may at last my weary age Find...Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that neaven doth show And every herb that sips the dew; Till old experience do attain To something like... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...sweetness through mine ear Dissolve me into ecstacies, And bring all Heaven before mine ere*. And ma/, at last, my weary age, Find out the peaceful hermitage....Where I may sit, and rightly spell Of every star that Heaven doth shew. And every herb that sips the dew ; Till old Experience do attain To something like... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...service high, and anthems clear, Ae may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstacies, And bring all heav'n before mine eyes. And may at...peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where 1 may sit and rightly spell Of cv'ry star that heav'n doth shew, And cv'ry herb that sips the dew :... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1876 - 602 pages
...Envoys in your '.>wn house." AR E. Athenaeum. SHEW = Snow, t'.— Milton used both forms, e. yr. :— " Of every star that Heav'n doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew." " Inimitable sounds : yet, as we go, Whate'er the skill of lesser godi can show." From such instances... | |
 | John Broadbent - Literary Criticism - 1973 - 364 pages
...mazes of the wood. He supplies very much the kind of folk wisdom the poet wishes for in // penseroso : And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful...Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew; Till old experience do attain To something like... | |
 | Merritt Yerkes Hughes - 1970 - 412 pages
...(OED). to spell. 'To make out, understand, decipher, or comprehend, by study' (OED). Cf. IlPen 170-1 : Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every Star that Heav'n doth shew. LH Kendall Jr. (' Two Notes on the Text of PR \ N & Q_ ns 4, 1957, 523) would place a semicolon after... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1879 - 456 pages
...cheerful man " was one of perennial youth. I must quote " the pensive man's " closing wish : — " May at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage,...and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Off every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience do attain... | |
 | Bette Charlene Werner - English poetry - 1986 - 328 pages
...and Prose of William Klake. p. 685, give these lines of the poem as the subject of the illustration: And may at last my weary Age Find out the peaceful Hermitage The hairy Gown the mossy Cell Where I may sit & rightly spell Of every Star that heavn doth shew And every Herb that... | |
 | John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...Organ blow, To the full voic'd Quire below, In Service high, and Anthems deer, As may with sweetnes, through mine ear, Dissolve me into extasies, And bring...mine eyes. And may at last my weary age Find out the peacefull hermitage, The Hairy Gown and Mossy Cell, Where I may sit and rightly faU Of every Star that... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...massy proof. And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim, religious light. (1. 155 — 160) 19 Find out the peaceful hermitage. The hairy gown and...Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth show, And every herb that sips the dew; Till old experience do attain To something like... | |
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And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew ; Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic... 
