 | 1854 - 456 sider
...with black, staid wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem, Or that starred Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The Sea-Nymphs, and their powers ofFeni Yet thou art higher far descended ; Thee bright-haired Vesta, long of yore, To solitary Saturn... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 332 sider
...; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's* sister might beseem, Or that starr'd Ethiop queen,t that strove To set her beauty's praise above The sea-nymphs, and their powers offended, Yet thou art nigher far descended ; Thee bright-hair'd Vesta long of yore To solitary Saturn bore ;... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 564 sider
...with black, staid Wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem, Or that starred Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's...praise above The sea-nymphs, and their powers offended : Yet thou art higher far descended : Thee bright-haired Vesta, long of yore, To solitary Saturn bore... | |
 | 1855 - 458 sider
...with black, staid wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem, Or that starred Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's...praise above The Sea-Nymphs, and their powers offended : Yet thou art higher far descended ; Thee bright-haired Vesta, long of yore, To solitary Saturn bore... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 452 sider
...with black, staid wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem, Or that starred Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's...praise above The Sea-Nymphs, and their powers offended : Yet thou art higher far descended ; Thee bright-haired Vesta, long of yore, To solitary Saturn bore... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 64 sider
...staid Wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem, Or that starr'd Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The sea-nymphs, and their powers offended : Yet thou art higher far descended ; Thee, bright-hair'd Vesta, long of yore, To solitary Saturn bore... | |
 | Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham - 1855 - 388 sider
...Those hands must keep their posture and their bonds. The huge HORSE o'er her head is driven on,f * " That starred Ethiop queen, that strove To set her beauty's praise above The Sea-Nymphs, and their power offended." — Milton. t " Suspice ; Gorgonei colla videbis Equi. Nunc fruitur ccelo, quod pennis... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1855 - 510 sider
...Wisdom's hue. Black, hut such as in esteem Prince Memnou's sister might beseem, Or that starred JEthiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The sea-nymphs, and their powers offended." Cassiopeia is called " the starred ^Ethiop queen " because after her death she was placed among the... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 sider
...Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's 1 sister might beseem, Or that starred Ethiop queen 2 that strove To set her beauty's praise above The sea-nymphs, and their powers offended: Yet thou art higher far descended; Thee, bright-haired Vesta long of yore To solitary Saturn 3 bore;... | |
 | 1855 - 538 sider
...staid Wisdom's hue; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem, Or that starr'd Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The Sea-Nymphs, and their pow'rs offended; Yet thou art higher far descended ; Thee bright-hair 'd Vesta, long of yore, To solitary... | |
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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... 
