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...breathes in the descriptions of tho benighted Lady's singing, by Comus and the Spirit ! 'Comus. — Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such...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...

...may'st thou be translated to the skies, And give resounding grace to all Heav'n's harmonies. Comus. Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such...they float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smil'd ! I have oft...

...may'st thou be translated to the skies, And give resounding grace to all Heav'n's harmonies. Comus. Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such...they float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smil'd ! I have oft...

...COMUS. / COM. Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine inchanting ravishment ? 545 Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with...wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night, sso 331 shell] The margin of the Cambridge MS. 'Cell.' Hurd and Warburton observe that ' shell' means...

...strife, To soothe the wayward heart by sorrow rent, And soften down the rugged road of life. HK White, Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such...moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence Milton. Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul, And lap it in Elysium same. OLEANDER. Rosebay....

...with a view to try the boy's general knowledge of Greek and Latin. Translate into Greek Iambics, — Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such...moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence. PALEY'S EVIDENCES. 7 1. Explain the ground which Paley takes in his proof of the truth of Christianity....

...breathes in the descriptions of the benighted Lady's singing, by Comus and the Spirit ! 'Comus. — Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such...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...

...COMUS. COM. Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine inchanting ravishment ? 245 Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with...wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night, 250 At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smil'd ! I have oft heard My mother...

...— Hamlet, Act v. Scene i. or Milton's lines on the sounds of the lady's voice, in Coinus : — ' How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence...smoothing the raven down Of darkness, till it smiled.' May not these figures be taken in succession upon the mind's eye, and yet so far linked together, or...