...with Comus, in that lovely passage which I committed to memory more than half a century ago, that ' They float upon the wings Of silence, through the...fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiles. ' Of such poetry I can assert that it only fully reveals itself to me when thus learnt; and...

...And give resounding grace to all Heaven's harmonies ! Cotnus. Can any mortal mixture of earth's movW Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment? Sure something...wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night, 2£O At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled II have oft heard My mother...

...And give resounding grace to all Heaven's harmonies ! Camus. Can any mortal mixture of earth's morW Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment? Sure something...wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night, 2$ii At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled II have oft heard My mother...

...! So may'st thou be translated to the skies, And give resounding grace to all Heaven's harmonies ! Comus. Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe...enchanting ravishment ? Sure something holy lodges in that breast,1'' And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence. How sweetly...

...Sphere! So may'st thou be translated to the skies* And give resounding grace to all Heaven's harmonies! Comus. Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe...wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night, 250 My mother Circe with the Sirens three, Amidst the flowery-kirtled Naiades, Culling their potent...

...lessening up the skies, The Angels with us unawares. GERALD MASSEY— The Ballad of Babe Christabel. is hormio. I. 24. 27. 15 Knowledge, in truth, is the great sun MILTON — Camus. L. 249. 19 The helmed Cherubim, And sworded Seraphim, Are seen in glittering ranks...

...that wonderful outburst — Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine inchanting ravishment ? Sure something holy lodges in that breast,...sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence, thro' the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled I...

...always followed by her; or (») by retaining the old «<«/«• use of his; cf. Comus 146 — 148 : "Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with...moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence." The only places in Milton's verse where its occurs are 1. 154, IV. 813; and Nativity Ode, 106. I know...

...While Geraldine, in wretched plight, Sank down upon the floor below. , Otrijtabtl. ST COLERIDGE. Music. Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such...smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled. PERFECTION. To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the...

...Sphere, So mayst thou be translated to the skies, And give resounding grace to all Heav'ns Harmonies. COMUS. Can any mortal mixture of Earth's mould Breathe...these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidd'n residence; How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night,...