 | 1837 - 684 pages
...gratify the pride of superiour understanding ; of poets, those who dwell but in faerv visions, i> " Gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play in the plighted clouds." Such, in one word, are of every class of men those who, in admiration of splendid... | |
 | William Gilmore Simms - 1835 - 242 pages
...tale, full of machinery, and without a purpose save the imbodiment to the mind's eye of some of those " Gay creatures of the element, That in the colours...rainbow live, And play i' the plighted clouds"— a distinguished writer of this country gravely remarks, in a leading periodical,—"Magic is now beyond... | |
 | 1835 - 254 pages
...beings having no sympathy or connexion with the passions and prejudices of ordinary humanity : — Gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play in the plighted clouds. We never enter his Studio, from the crowded street, peopled as it is with the... | |
 | 1836 - 558 pages
...more than human, as they stood : I took it for a fairy vision Of some gay creatures of the clement, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i' the plighted clouds. I was awe-struck, And, as I pass'd, I worshipp'd : if those you seek, It were a journey like the path... | |
 | Elizabeth Washington Wirt - 1837 - 264 pages
...of air, Built by the genii in the evening sky i . . SP Chase. l took it for a fairy vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours...the rainbow live, And play i' the plighted clouds Milton. Say from what far and sunny shore, Fair wonder, thou dost rove Lest what I only should adore,... | |
 | British and foreign young men's society - 1839 - 216 pages
...than human, as they stood: I took it for a faery vision • Of some gay creatures of the elements, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i' the plighted clouds. I was awestruck, And as I past I worshipt; if those you seek, It were a journey like the path to heaven,... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...tender shoots ; Their port was more than human, as they stood : 1 took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, soo And play i' th' plighted clouds. I was awe-struck, And as I pass'd, I worshipp'd ; if those you... | |
 | 1841 - 436 pages
...the mysterious voices of infinite years. I drink in unused air with " Fair creatures of the clement. That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i' the plighted clouds." I stand wrapt in mute visions, growing into the majesty of the mountains. I spurn Decay and Time. I... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1842 - 352 pages
...tender shoots ; Their port was more than human, as they stood : I took it for a fairy 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 passed, I worshipped ; if those you seek, It were a journey like the path... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 364 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 worshipp'd ; if those you seek, It were a journey like the path... | |
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Plucking ripe clusters from the 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, And play i 
