 | John Milton - 1782 - 40 sider
...visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view 1 5 O'erlaid with black, staid wisdom's hue. Black, but such as...Or that starr'd Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauties praise above ao The Sea-Nymphs, and their pow'rs offended. Yet thou art higher far descended,... | |
 | John Bell - 1788 - 628 sider
...human sight, And therefore to our weaker view , , ,. . jg O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's bue } Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister...Or that starr'd Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauties' praise above • so The sea-nymphs, and their pow'rs offended t Yet thou art higher far descended,... | |
 | John Milton, Thomas Warton - 1799 - 148 sider
...faintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as...Or that starr'd Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauties' praise above The sea-nymphs, and their pow'rs offended: Yet thou art higher far descended;... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1802 - 152 sider
...saintly image is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue, Black, but such as...Or that starr'd Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauties praise above The sea-nymphs, and their pow'rs offended ; Yet thou art higher far descended,... | |
 | 1804 - 496 sider
...melancholy," we are told, that to adapt her visage to our weaker view, it is Oc'r laid with blaci; staid wisdom's hue.... Black, but such as, in esteem,...queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The Sea Nymphs.... The poet could not but be aware, that to give his goddess the complexion of an African,... | |
 | Peter Pindar - 1804 - 180 sider
...hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdem's hue : Black, but such as in esteem Prince MEMNON'S...Or that starr'd Ethiop Queen that strove To set her beauties' praise above The Sea- Nymphs, and their pow'rs offended : Yet thou art higher far descended,... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 sider
...saintly visage is too bright Tn hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view , O'erlaid with black , staid Wisdom's hue ; Black , but such...Prince Memnon's sister might beseem , Or that starr'd Ethiope queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The sea-nymphs , and their powers offended... | |
 | E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 sider
...Meumon's sister might heseem : Or that starr'd Ethiop queen that strove To set her heauties praise ahove The sea-nymphs, and their powers offended: Yet thou art higher far descended, Thee hright hairM Vesta long of yore To solitary Saturn hore; His daughter she (in Saturn's reign Such mixture... | |
 | John Wolcot - 1804 - 180 sider
...saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue : Black, but such as in esteem Prince MEMNOS'S sister might beseem, Or that starr'd Ethiop Queen that strove To set her beauties' praise... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 924 sider
...unluckily, is from my breast Hal'd out to murder. Stakspiart. s. Decorated with stars. That starr d Ethiop queen, that strove To set her beauty's praise above The sea-nymphs. Milieu. He furious hurl'd against the ground His sceptre, starr'd with golden studs around. Pope. STA'RRV.... | |
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But hail, thou goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's... 
