 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...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, soo And play i' th' plighted clouds. I was awe-struck, And as I pass'd, I worshipp'd ; if those you... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...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, 300 And play i' the plighted clouds. I was awe-struck, And, as I past, I worshipt; if those you seek,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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 of the rainbow live, And play i' the plighted clouds"— a distinguished writer of this country gravely remarks, in a leading... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 496 pages
...clusters from the 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, 300 And play i' th' plighted clouds. I was awe-struck, And as I pass'd, I worshipp'd ; if those you... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1839 - 158 pages
...THE HS 1839 «*• •r -"•••• WITH . E WIEIE HE XT -YORK HAH.PEB. i- BB-OTHERS 1839 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. FItOM THE EDITION OF 1831. Entered, according to Act of Congress,... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...clusters from the 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... | |
 | 1840 - 372 pages
...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' the plighted clouds. I was awe-struck, And, as I pass'd, I worshipp'd ; if those you seek,... | |
 | 1840 - 332 pages
...fantastical romance and brooding mystery, have each their proper homes. Erewhile I took it for a fairy region Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i' th' plighted clouds; and now, though not a passing shadow has fallen to change my mood,... | |
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