 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 622 pages
...tender shoots : Their port was more than human, as they stood: I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, 30O And play i' th' plaited clouds. 1 was awe-struck, And as I pass'd I worship'd: if these you seek,... | |
 | 1824 - 334 pages
...retention of the admired powers of this excellent artist. Iris and her Train. — Henry Howard, RA " Gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play in the plighted clouds." We are always delighted with Mr. Howard's poetical pictures; their brilliancy... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 282 pages
...company, with more of the man of business, and not less of the 1 I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours...the rainbow live, And play i' the plighted clouds. — Comus. ' Where Hazlitt was brought up. coxcomb, in his strut and manner, knocks at the door with... | |
 | 1818 - 638 pages
...we have more of the wantoning of the imagination, and the conjuring up a fairy vision Of some g»y creatures of the element That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play in the plighted clouds. It is not necessary to decide whether the ancient or the modern poetry is best;... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 pages
...tender shoots. Their port was more than human, as they stood : I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours...the rainbow live, And play i' the plighted clouds. I was awe-struck, And, as I pass'd, I worship'd : if those you seek, It were a journey like the path... | |
 | 1819 - 544 pages
...energy; we have more of the wantoning of the imagination, and1 , the conjuring up a fairy vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play in the plighted clouds. It is not necessary to decide whether the ancient or the modem poetry is best;... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1820 - 570 pages
...surrounded by silence and desolation, we seem to have no refuge from their malevolence. How unlike the the spirits which floated in the entranced vision...fairly) have sometimes amused our riper years, called Lcs Contes des Fees: but the effect of fairy tales is in all cases nearly alike. As far as the agency... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...tender shoots ; Their port was more than human, as they stood : I took it for a faery vision Of some ding favour of these pines, Slept, as they said, to the next thicket s 30O And play i' the plighted clouds. I was aw-struck. And, as I past, I worshipt ; if those you seek,... | |
 | 1821 - 274 pages
...every fall smoothing the raven-down Of darkness till it smiled ! I took it for a fairy vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i' th' plighted clouds." Comus. ON the following midnight Lewen again sought the scene of his conference... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1821 - 82 pages
...whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit: " Fanny. ' A fairy vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live— And play in the plighted clouds-' Milton. Second edition." agement of tanrjintg. by securing the copies of maps,... | |
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