 | John Milton - 2000 - 412 sider
...somthing holy lodges in that brest, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testifie his hidd'n residence; How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night 250 At every fall smoothing the Raven doune 243 And give resounding grace] Edd. 1, 2, 1637: and hold... | |
 | 1909 - 502 sider
...Heaven's harmonies 1 Comus. Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine inchanting ravishment? Sure something holy lodges in that breast,...fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled ! I have oft heard My mother Circe with the Sirens three, Amidst the flowery -kittled Naiades,... | |
 | James Phinney Baxter - 1915 - 790 sider
...penned the foregoing lines penned the "Comus" from which we extract the following: — Can any mortal mixture of Earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting...fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled! I oft have heard My mother Circe with the Sirens three Amidst the flow'ry-kirtled Naiades Culling... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 sider
...music, with his characteristic mutation into sensuous imagery, as of someone's hair being stroked: How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence,...empty-vaulted night At every fall smoothing the Raven doune Of darkness till it smil'd . . . [249-52] And from here we move quickly into the world of Ovidian... | |
 | Bill Moore - 1987 - 180 sider
...the wind-grieved Appenine. At the foot of your rotten-runged, rat-riddled stairs. Milton did it, too: How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night. Charles Kingsley: The night -rack came rolling up, ragged and brown. Thomas Hardy once more: Your face,... | |
 | R. B. Onians, Richard Broxton Onians - 1988 - 606 sider
...Diog. L. vu, 55 and 159. Milton's Comus (244 ff.) marvels at the Lady's song, at that in her which can 'Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment? Sure something...moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence'. 1 IL n, 213. * See eg //. I, 541-50; Od. xv, 445. * P. 14. 4 Malinowski, Argonauts of the Western Pacific,... | |
 | James Turner - 1993 - 368 sider
...hand, Comus can imagine the Lady residing within her body as a person within a house: Sure somthing holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testifie his hidd'n residence. (lines 246-8) But the emblematic function of the Lady's virginity depends... | |
 | John Milton - 1994 - 630 sider
...translated to the skies, And give resounding grace to ail Heaven's harmonies! COMUS Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting...the vocal air To testify his hidden residence. How sweedy did they float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night, 250 At every fall... | |
 | Liam Hudson, Bernadine Jacot - 1995 - 168 sider
...somthing holy lodges in that brest, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testifie his hidd'n residence; How sweetly did they float upon the wings...empty-vaulted night At every fall smoothing the Raven doune Of darkncs till it smil'd . . . Meanwhile, her elder brother, realising that his sister is lost,... | |
 | William Riley Parker - 1996 - 708 sider
...the song, and his comment in blank verse has a lyric strain: Can any mortal mixture of earth's mold Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment ? Sure something...fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled . . . Lorenzo to Jessica, Romeo to Juliet, had no more musical speeches: I'll speak to her,... | |
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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. 
