...majestic train, And sable stole of Cyprus lawn Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step, and musing gait, And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes : l\Q IL PENSEROSO. There held in holy passion still, Forget thyself...

...arch-angelic extasy" of her who, with her mind filled with heavenly visions, sits apart — " With looks commercing with the skies, Her rapt soul sitting in her eyes ?" Gaius. No ; not, at least, if I can be sure that the " rapture" and the " extasy" are really " holy"...

...majestic train, And sable stole of cypress-lawn, Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come, but keep thy s mind and manners brightly shines In his well turned and true filed lines : In eac Thy rapt soul sitting in thine cyce: There held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, till,...

...language with the great poet, in his address to Meditation, " devout and pure!" Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step, and musing gait, And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes .... And join with thee calm Peace, and Quiet, Spare Fast, that...

...majestic train, And sable stole of Cyprus lawn, Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step, and musing gait, And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes: There, held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, till,...

...the Conception, about a foot high, the masterpiece of his chisel. Robed in azure and white, with " looks commercing with the skies Her rapt soul sitting in her eyes," 1 Page 781. * Page 790. Handbook, p. 386. Sculpture. Architecture. S. Martinez. her delicate hands...

...idea occurs often in literature. Milton, perhaps, led the way by his description of Melancholy: — with even step and musing gait, And looks commercing with the skies, The rapt soul sitting in her eyes ! Sterne assigns the same peculiarity to the face of his Monk, in...

...atoms, — O,'then, let the divinest of the muses, let Astronomy approach, and take him by the hand ; j let her " Come, but keep her wonted state, With even...sitting in her eyes." Let her lead him to the mount of vision ; let her turn her heaven-piercing tube to the sparkling vauN; : through that let him observe...

...majestic train, And sable stole of cypress lawn, Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step, and musing gait, And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes: There, held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, till...

...majestic train, And sable stole of cypress-lawn, Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come, but keep thy ing which I skie«, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes: There held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble,...