 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - English language - 1839 - 482 pages
...Comus.) 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, till it smiled ! I have oft... | |
 | British and foreign young men's society - 1839 - 216 pages
...with these raptures moves the vocal air I'o testify his hidden residence. How sweetly did theyJJoat upon the wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven-down Of darkness till it smiled !" tjc. Is there any thing, even in Milton himself more exquisitely... | |
 | 1839 - 394 pages
...apprehensions like a mighty dream."1 Take another instance also from Milton, where he speaks of music At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled. Here also it is impossible to perceive the mere logical connection of the images ; for, allowing darkness... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - 518 pages
...Life, p. cxxx. 21 It has been uked where an illustration must be sought for the expression, ver. 2M, * At every fall, smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled :' and the entire silence of the commentators has been remarked. I shall, therefore, observe that there... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 372 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, through the empty vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven-down Of darkness, till it smiled ! I have oft... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Antislavery movements - 1841 - 444 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...smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled ! I have oft heard My mother Circe with the Sirens three, Amidst the flowery-kirtled Naiades, Culling... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1841 - 844 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, through the empty vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down .. I, - ~ — ! Of darkness till it smiled... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...245 Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify ht. On Philom empty vaulted night, 250 At every fall smoothing the raven-down Of darkness, till it smil'd ! I have... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - American poetry - 1842 - 352 pages
...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 till it smiled ! I have oft heard My Mother Circe with the Sirens three, Amidst the flowery kirtled Naiades Culling... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich, George Stillman Hilliard - English literature - 1842 - 364 pages
...grand and musical ever to be forgotten, his estimation of the " soft and solemn breathing sound " " At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled." Can the utmost familiarity ever rob that passage of its charm? But of all the poets, Shakspeare has... | |
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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... 
