 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 256 pages
...anthems clear, As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecataciea, And bring all Heav'n before mine eyes. And may at last my weary age Find...Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that Heav'n doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew ; Till old experience do attain To something like... | |
 | English literature - 1852 - 248 pages
...their resignation, their hermitage and their crust ; and long to be like them, and play at loneliness. "And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful...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 prophetic strain."... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 372 pages
...service high, and anthems clear, As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes. And may at...; Till old experience do attain To something like prophetick strain. These pleasures, Melancholy, give, And I with thee will choose to live. 1 ' High-embowed... | |
 | 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...experience do attain To something like prophetic strain. This kind of wisdom is certainly special, but it doesn't set the artist completely apart from the community,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...massy proof. And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim, religious light. (1. 155 — 160) 19 1 1) 6 He sent for lancewood to make the thills;...from the straightest trees; The panels of white-wood, show, And every herb that sips the dew; Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 340 pages
...the poem's conclusion, the poet-prophet: Where 1 may sit and rightly spell Of every Star that Heav'n doth shew, And every Herb that sips the dew; Till...Melancholy give, And I with thee will choose to live. (lines 170-6) The presence of Hermes and Plato at the centre of 'II Penseroso' is emphatic and serious.... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...service high and anthems clear, As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes. And may at...The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and righdy spell 170 Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience... | |
 | Stanton J. Linden - Literary Criticism - 392 pages
..."pealing Organ" and "full voic'd Choir," these influences come to be identified with prophetic wisdom: And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful...Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every Star that Heav'n doth shew, And every Herb that sips the dew; Till old experience do attain To something like... | |
 | Alan J. Hommerding - Music - 1997 - 180 pages
...service high and anthems clear, As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes. And may at...experience do attain To something like prophetic strain. lohn Milton These pleasures, Melancholy, give, Seventeenth century And I With thee Will choOSC tO live.... | |
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And bring all heaven before mine eyes. 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... 
