 | John Milton - 1871 - 312 pages
...steeds That draw the litter of close-curtain'd Sleep. At last a soft and solemn-breathing sound 555 Rose like a steam of rich distill'd perfumes, And...air, that even Silence Was took ere she was ware, and wish't she might Deny her nature, and be never more, Still to be so displac't. I was all ear, 560 And... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 556 pages
...silver lining on the night, And casts a gleam over this tufted grove.' ' She calls her brothers : ' At last a soft and solemn-breathing sound Rose like...rich distill'd perfumes, And stole upon the air,* across the ' violet-embroider'd vale,' to the dissolute god whom she enchants. He comes disguised as... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - Literary Criticism - 1871 - 554 pages
...silver lining on the night, And casts a gleam over this tufted grove.' 1 She calls her brothers : ' At last a soft and solemn-breathing sound Rose like...steam of rich distill'd perfumes, And stole upon the air,t across the ' violet-embroider'd vale,' to the dissolute god whom she enchants. He comes disguised... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...close-curtained sleep : At last a soft and solemn-breathing sound Rose like a stream of rich distilled perfumes, And stole upon the air, that even Silence Was took ere she was ware, and wished she might Deny her nature, and be never more, Still to be so displaced. I was all ear, And took... | |
 | John Milton - 1872 - 568 pages
...sudden silence Gave respite to the drowsy frighted steeds That draw the litter of close-curtain'd Sleep, At last a soft and solemn-breathing sound Rose like...air, that even Silence Was took ere she was ware, and wish't she might Deny her nature, and be never more Still to be so displac't. I was all ear, 560 And... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1873 - 470 pages
...over this tufted grove."1 She calls her brothers iu " a soft and solemn -breathing sound," which " rose like a steam of rich distill'd perfumes, and stole upon the air," 2 across the " violet-embroider'd vale," to the dissolute god whom she enchants. He comes disguised... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1874 - 584 pages
...close-curtained sleep; At last a soft and solemn-breathing sound Rose like a stream of rich distilled perfumes, And stole upon the air, that even Silence Was took ere she was ware, and wished she might Oruy her nature, and be never more, Still to be so displaced. I was all ear, And took... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 456 pages
...close-curtained sleep. At last, a soft and solemn-breathing sound Rose like a steam of rich distilled perfumes And stole upon the air, that even Silence Was took ere she was ware, and wished she might * Murmurs, muttered magic words or verses. In preparing this enchanted cup, the larm... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - English literature - 1874 - 474 pages
...sudden silence Gave respite to the drowsy-flighted steeds That draw the litter of close-curtained sleep. At last, a soft and solemn-breathing sound Rose like a steam of rich distilled perfumes And stole upon the air, that even Silence Wag took ere she was ware, and wished... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 518 pages
...; but her exquisite singing is most dwelt on. Thus, of her Echo-Song in the enchanted wood : — " At last a soft and solemn-breathing sound Rose like a steam of rich distilled perfumes, And stole upon the air, that even Silence Was took ere she was ware, and wished... | |
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At last a soft and solemn-breathing sound Rose like a steam of rich distill'd perfumes. And stole upon the air, that even Silence Was took ere she was ware, and wished she might Deny her nature, and be never more Still to be so displaced. I was all ear,... 
