 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...  The Quarterly Review - 39 psl.redagavo - 1834Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | William Ellery Channing - 1835 - 484 psl.
...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 heard My mother Circe with the Sirens three, Amidst the flowery-kirtled Naiades, Culling... | |
 | Author of The young man's own book - 1836 - 336 psl.
...with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence: How sweetly did lhey float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty vaulted...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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 526 psl.
...shook his plumes, that heavenly fragrance fill'd The circuit wide. Book v. How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty vaulted...fall, smoothing the raven down Of darkness, till it smil'd. THE BIRTH OF DEATH. 4 I fled, and cried out Death: Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sigh'd... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 360 psl.
...shook his plumes, that heavenly fragrance fill'd The circuit wide. Book v. How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty vaulted...fall, smoothing the raven down Of darkness, till it smil'd. THE HIRTH OF niAIil. 1 fled, and cried out Death : Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sigh'd... | |
 | Stanhope Busby - 1837 - 132 psl.
...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 heard My mother Circe with the Syrens three, 61 Amidst the flower y-kiitled Naiades, Culling... | |
 | 1834 - 562 psl.
...voice, in Comus : — ' How sweetly did iheyjloat upon the wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness,...in succession upon the mind's eye, and yet so far lmked together, or placed in such harmonious opposition, that a single and uncout'used impression may... | |
 | 1838 - 1050 psl.
...hidden residence : How sweetly did they float upon the wines Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled ! 1 have oft heard My mother Circe with the Sirens three, Amidst the flow'ry-kirtled Naiades. Culling... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1839 - 482 psl.
...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 heard My mother Circe with the Syrens three, Amidst... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - 518 psl.
...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... | |
 | 1839 - 394 psl.
...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... | |
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