When darkness, brooding on thy sight, Exiled the sov'reign lamp of light ; Say, what could then one cheering hope diffuse ? What friends were thine, save Mem'ry and the Muse ? Hence the rich spoils, thy studious youth Caught from the stores of ancient... Poems - Page 16by William Mason - 1803 - 235 pagesFull view - About this book
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...lamp of light: Say, what could then one cheering hope diffuse What friends were thine, save Memory and the Muse? Hence the rich spoils, thy studious youth Caught from the stores of ancient Truth : Hence all thy busy eye could pleas*d explore, When Rapture led thee lo the Latian shore;... | |
| William Mason - Church music - 1811 - 516 pages
...wrongs :" When " fall'n on evil days and evil tongues ;" When darkness, brooding on thy sight, Exiled the sov'reign lamp of light ; Say, what could then...spoils, thy studious youth Caught from the stores of ancient truth : Hence all thy classic wand'rings could explore, When rapture led thee to the Latian... | |
| William Mason - Gardens - 1811 - 524 pages
...wrongs :" When " fall'n on evil days and evil tongues ;" When darkness, brooding on thy sight, Exiled the sov'reign lamp of light ; Say, what could then...spoils, thy studious youth Caught from the stores of ancient truth : Hence all thy classic wand'rings could explore, When rapture led thee to the Latian... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 314 pages
...day, How, when " deprest by age, beset with wrongs :" When " fall'n on evil days and evil tongues ;" When darkness, brooding on thy sight, Exil'd the sov'reign...spoils, thy studious youth Caught from the stores of ancient truth: Hence all thy classic wand'rings could explore, When rapture led thee to the Latian... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1822 - 366 pages
...by age, beset with wrongs;" When " fallen on evil days and evil tongues ;" * Wrangham's Version. 3* When Darkness, brooding on thy sight, Exil'd the sov'reign...cheering hope diffuse ? What friends were thine, save Memory and the Muse ? * It is at the era of the Restoration, indeed, when Milton was not only blind,... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 302 pages
...fallen on evil days and evil tongues :' When Darkness, brooding on thy sight, Exiled the sovereign lamp of light; Say, what could then one cheering hope diffuse '. What friends were thine, save Memory and the Muse? Hence the rich spoils, thy studious youth Caught from the stores of ancient Truth... | |
| William Mason - 1830 - 166 pages
...fallen on evil days and evil tongues j" When darkness, brooding on thy sight, Exiled the sovereign lamp of light ; Say, what could then one cheering hope diffuse ? What friends were thine, save Memory and the Muse? Hence the rich spoils thy studious youth Caught from the stores of ancient truth... | |
| John Milton - 1835 - 350 pages
...fallen on evil days and evil tongues :' When Darkness, brooding on thy sight, Exiled the sovereign lamp of light; Say, what could then one cheering hope diffuse ? What friends were thine, save Memory and the Muse? Hence the rich spoils, thy studious youth Caught from the stores of ancient Truth... | |
| English poetry - 1836 - 558 pages
...Say, what could then one cheering hope diffuse? What friends were thine, save Memory and the Musol Hence the rich spoils thy studious youth Caught from the stores of ancient Truth; Hence all thy busy eye could pleas'd explore, When Rapture led thee to the Latian shore;... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Nathaniel Parker Willis - Gift books - 1846 - 120 pages
...'fallen on evil days and evil tongues;' When Darkness, brooding o'er thy sight, Exiled the sovereign lamp of light : Say, what could then one cheering hope diffuse ? What friends were thine save Memory and the Muse r Hence the rich spoils thy studious youth Caught from the stores of ancient Truth... | |
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