 | John Black - 1806 - 258 psl.
...Peris : These are represented as benignant and beautiful females, Gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i' the plighted clouds. Cemui, I. 300. With these beautiful beings, we are told the Persians contrast the Dives, as in the... | |
 | John Black - 1806 - 260 psl.
...Peris : These are represented as benignant and beautiful females, Gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i' the plighted clouds. Comus, /. 300. They hover in the balmy and fragrant air, and live upon the odours of the jasmine and... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 418 psl.
...than human, as they stood: I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i' the plighted clouds. I was aw-struck, And, as I past, I worshipt; if those you seek, It were a journey like the path of... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 psl.
...than human, as they stood : I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i' the plighted clouds. I was aw-struck, And, as I past, I worshipt; if those you seek, It were a journey like the path of... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 282 psl.
...business, and not less of the 1 I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i' the plighted clouds. — Comus. ' Where Hazlitt was brought up. coxcomb, in his strut and manner, knocks at the door with... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 psl.
...than human, as they stood : I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i' the plighted clouds. I was awe-struck, And, as I pass'd, I worship'd : if those you seek, It were a journey like the path... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1820 - 570 psl.
...which floated in the entranced vision of onr southern poet! " the gay creatures of the element That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i' the plighted clouds." Yet what is ' the Monastery,' how skilful soever may be its construction, but a fairy tale? It is,... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1820 - 570 psl.
...which floated in the entranced vision of onr southern poet ! " the gay creatures of the element That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i' the plighted clouds." Yet what is ' the Monastery,' how skilful soever may be its construction, but a fairy tale? It is,... | |
 | 1839 - 608 psl.
...his palette the mystery and beauty of the chromatic language. His pictures swarm with beings " that in the colours of the rainbow live and play i' the plighted clouds " — bursting with life, motion, and vigour — teeming with the wanton growth of primeval nature... | |
 | William Coxe - 1823 - 320 psl.
...through an April sun.* * Webb on the beauties of painting. " —— gay creatures of the element That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i' the plighted clouds." Com us, \. 299. Notwithstanding the beauty, softness, and enchanting effect of his oil pieces, it would... | |
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