 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.  Ben Jonson to Dryden - Page 305edited by - 1880Full view - About this book
 | Stanhope Busby - English poetry - 1837 - 132 pages
...testifies his wonderment and delight at those sweet sounds in the following outbreak of eloquent verse : Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such...that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal aiiTo testify his hidden residence. How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the... | |
 | Elizabeth Washington Wirt - Flower language - 1837 - 264 pages
...thought, Which only music's Heaven-born art can bring To sweep across the mind with angel-wing. . OATS. Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such...Sure something holy lodges in that breast And with those raptures moves the vocal air To testily his hidden residence Milton. Bending down to earth, l... | |
 | Stanhope Busby - English poetry - 1837 - 136 pages
...testifies his wonderment and delight at those sweet sounds in the following outbreak of eloquent verse : Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such...ravishment ? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And wiih these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence. How sweetly did they float... | |
 | 1838 - 1050 pages
...breathes in the descriptions of the benighted lady' singing by Comus and the Spirit ! 14 Cbmitf. Con any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine...hidden residence : How sweetly did they float upon the wines Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 496 pages
...COMUS. COM. Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine inchanting ravishment ? 245 Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with...wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night, KO At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smil'd ! I have oft heard My mother Circe... | |
 | 1834 - 562 pages
...i. or Milton's lines on the sounds of the lady's voice, in Comus : — ' How sweetly did iheyjloat upon the wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted...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 lmked together, or... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - English language - 1839 - 482 pages
...venture ; for my new-enlivened spirits Prompt me ; and they perhaps are not far off. (Entf.r Comus.) Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with...they float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty vaulted night. At every fall smoothing the raven-down Of darkness, till it smiled ! I have oft... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...Hurd and Warburton observe that ' shell' means the horizon, the hollow circumference of the heavens. And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify...wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night, aso At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smil'd ! I have oft heard My mother... | |
 | British and foreign young men's society - 1839 - 216 pages
...enters, and commences an address of graceful flattery : Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould 3reathc such divine enchanting ravishment? Sure something...breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air I'o testify his hidden residence. How sweetly did theyJJoat upon the wings Of silence, through the... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...thy Narcissus are ? Oh, if thou have Hid them in some flowery cave, Tell me but where, Enter COMUS. Comus. Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe...they float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven-down Of darkness, till it smiled ! I have oft... | |
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