 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 624 pages
...unexceptionable and pure; but its errors are venial, and it closes beautifully — Who (the ocean) now hath quite forgot to rave, While birds of calm sit brooding on the charmed wave. The thirteen succeeding stanzas are disfigured by numerous conceits; but from the nineteenth, The Oracles... | |
 | 1809 - 562 pages
...Bethlehem, nearly in latitude thirty-oner The winds with wonder whist Smoothly the waters kist, Whisp'ring new joys to the mild ocean$ % Who now hath quite forgot...While birds of calm sit brooding on the charmed wave. V. 64, " Perque dies placidos hiberno tempore septert Incubat Halcyone pendentibus asquore nitiis.... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...armed throng; And kings sat still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by. V. But peaceful was the night, Wherein the Prince of...While birds of calm sit brooding on the. charmed wave. J VI. The stars with deep amaze, Stand fix'd in stedfast gaze, Bending one way their precious influence;... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pages
...Wherein the Prince of light His reign of peace upon the Earth began : The winds, with wonder wbist, Smoothly the waters kist, Whispering new joys to the...charmed wave. The stars, with deep amaze, Stand fix'd in stedfast gaze, Bending one way their precious influence ; And will not take their flight, .For all... | |
 | Charles Symmons - 1810 - 690 pages
...stanza is not quite so unexceptionable and pure; but its errors are venial, and it closes beautifully^ k Who now hath quite forgot to rave, While birds of calm sit brooding on the charmed wave. The thirteen succeeding stanzas are disfigured by numerous conceits: but from the nineteen ill, The oracles... | |
 | John Walker - 1811 - 568 pages
...Bethlehem, nearly in latitude thirty-one ' The winds with wonder whist Smoothly the waters kist, Whisp'ring new joys to the mild ocean, Who now hath quite forgot...While birds of calm sit brooding on the charmed wave. V. 64.' " Perque dies placidos hiberno tempore septem Incubat Halcyone pendentibus aequore nidis. Tum... | |
 | Charles Symmons - 1822 - 526 pages
...not quite so unexceptionable and pure; but its errors are venial, and it closes beautifully — 36 Who now hath quite forgot to rave, While birds of calm sit brooding on the charmed wave. • ' 36 Ocean. The thirteen succeeding stanzas are disfigured by numerous conceits : but from the... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 472 pages
...of peace upon the earth began : The winds with wonder whist Smoothly the waters kist, 65 Whisp'ring new joys to the mild ocean, Who now hath quite forgot...While birds of calm sit brooding on the charmed wave. 55. The idle spear and shield were high up hung.'] So Propertius, ii. xxv. 8. Et reins in templo bellica... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 476 pages
...His reign of Peace upon the earth began: The winds, with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kist, 65 Whispering new joys to the mild ocean, Who now hath...While birds of calm sit brooding on the charmed wave. Mr. Warton has remarked. See the notes on Sams. Agon. v. 1736. And Tasso, Gier. Lib. c. and St. ult.... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 360 pages
...reign of peace upon the earth began : The winds with wonder whist Smoothly the waters kist, Whisp'ring new joys to the mild ocean, Who, now hath quite forgot...While birds of calm sit brooding on the charmed wave. 6. The stars with deep amaze Stand fix'd in stedfast gaze, Bending one way their precious influence,... | |
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But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began : The winds, with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kist, Whispering new joys to the mild ocean Who now hath quite forgot to rave, While birds of calm sit brooding... 
