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" Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence. How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness... "
Papers of an undergraduate, a selection from the MSS. of W. T. Edwards [ed ... - Page 138
by William Edwards (of Camberwell) - 1862
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Bell's Edition, Volumes 31-32

John Bell - English poetry - 1788 - 628 pages
...his hidden residencei How sweetly did they flote upon the wings Of Silence, through the empty vaulted Night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smil'd! I have oft heard My mother Circe with the Sirens three, Amidst the flow'ry-kirtled Naiades...
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British Theatre, Volume 11

John Bell - English drama - 1791 - 294 pages
...something holy lodges in that breast, " And with these raptures moves the vocal air goo " To testify his hidden residence : " How sweetly did they float..." Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, " At ev'ry fall smoothing the raven down " Of darkness till it smil'd ! I have oft' heard " My mother Circe,...
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Bell's British Theatre: Comus, by J. Milton. ... Love in a village, by I ...

English drama - 1797 - 468 pages
...something holy lodges in that breast, " And with these raptures moves the vocal air 303 " To testify his hidden residence : " How sweetly did they float..." Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, " At ev'ry fall smoothing the raven down " Of darkness till it smil'd ! I have oft' heard " My mother Circe,...
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Comus: A Mask: Presented at Ludlow Castle 1634, Before the Earl of ...

John Milton, Thomas Warton - English drama - 1799 - 148 pages
...? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence. How sweetly did they float upon...fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness, till it smil'd! I have oft heard My mother Circe with the Sirens three, Amidst the flow'ry-kirtled Naiads,...
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The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 7

John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 624 pages
...precipice, and, while we admire her boldness, we are doubtful of her safety. In that exquisite passage — How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence...the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the rayen down Of darkness till it smiled, if our rapture would suffer us to be sufficiently composed to...
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The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 7

John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 602 pages
...precipice, and, while we admire her boldness, we are doubtful of her safety. In that exquisite passage— How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, At ewry fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled, if our rapture would suffer us to be...
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Comus: A Mask

John Milton - 1808 - 96 pages
...845 Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence. How sweetly did they float upon...empty-vaulted night, At every fall, smoothing the raven-down Of darkness, till it smil'd ! I have oft heard My mother, Circe, with the Syrens three,...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 51

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1834 - 558 pages
...— Hamlet, Act v. Scene i. or Milton's lines on the sounds of the lady's voice, in Comus :•— ' How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence...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 linked together, or...
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A Collection of Farces and Other After-pieces, which are Acted at ..., Volume 2

Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1809 - 332 pages
..." Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence : How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence, thro' the empty-vaulted night. At ev'ry fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness, 'till it smil'd;...
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Paradise Lost and Regained: With the Latin and Other Poems of John ..., Volume 4

John Milton - 1810 - 414 pages
...? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence. How sweetly did they float upon...the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven-down Of darkness, till it smil'd ! I have oft heard My mother Circe with the Syrens three, Amidst...
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