 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 452 Seiten
...hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem, Or that starred Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The Sea-Nymphs, and their powers... | |
 | 1855 - 458 Seiten
...hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem, Or that starred Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The Sea-Nymphs, and their powers... | |
 | Collection - 1856 - 120 Seiten
...weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memmon's sister might beseem : Or that starr'd Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauties praise above The sea-nymphs, and their powers offended : Yet thou art higher far descended, Thee bright hair'd Vesta... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1856 - 512 Seiten
...hit the sense of human sight, And, therefore, to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue. Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem, Or that starred J5thiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The sea-nymphs, and their powers... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 578 Seiten
...hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's , and clips his golden wings ; With spicy food the impatient spirit feeds, And s starred Ethiop qucon that strove To set her beauties' praise above The sea-nymphs, and their powers... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 Seiten
...hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem, Or that starred Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The sea-nymphs, and their powers... | |
 | 1863 - 844 Seiten
...should seem only to add an appropriate charm, — as Milton says of his Penseroso, whom he imagines ' " Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem. Or that starred Ethiop queen thnt strove To set her beauty's praise above The sea-nymph's." But though Sojourner... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 Seiten
...hit the sense of human sight. And therefore, to our weaker view, (ferlaid with blade, staid wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's...beseem,' Or that starr'd Ethiop queen that strove To sel her beauty's praise above The sea-nymphs, and their powers offended : Yet thou art higher far descended... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1859 - 420 Seiten
...hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem, To set her beauty's praise above Or that starr'd Ethiop queen that strove The sea-nymphs, and their... | |
 | John Milton - 1860 - 574 Seiten
...the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'crlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue; but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem, Or that starred Ethiop queen* that strove To set her beauty's praise above The. sea-nymphs, and their powers... | |
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But hail, thou goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view... 
