 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 600 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 504 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 2O The Sea-Nymphs, and their powers offended Yet thou art higher far descended : Thee bright-haired... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 518 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 20 The Sea-Nymphs, and their powers offended. Yet thou art higher far descended : Thee bright-haired... | |
 | Ovid - 1875 - 346 sider
...Ethiopia, brother of ^Cgyptus and Danaus. 670. maternae linguae: Cassiopeia, mother of Andromeda, was " That starred Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's...above The sea-nymphs, and their powers offended." Cepheus, Cassiopeia, Andromeda, and Perseus are among the most striking constellations in the northern... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 240 sider
...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...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,... | |
 | 1909 - 500 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; His... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1913 - 972 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...above The sea-nymphs, and their powers offended." Cassiopeia is called "the starred ^Ithiop queen" because after her death she was placed among the stars,... | |
 | Edward Le Comte - 1991 - 168 sider
...wrote and that he would not have wanted us scurrying after. Take the reference in "II Penseroso" to "that starred Ethiop queen that strove / To set her...above / The seanymphs, and their powers offended." Here is "that" meaning famous again — Cassiopeia, turned into a constellation. The more familiar... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley - 1911 - 682 sider
...country of the ^Ethiopians, over whom Cepheus was king. His wife was Cassiopea — That starred .^thiope queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The sea-nymphs, and their powers offended.1 These nymphs had consequently sent a sea monster to ravage the coast. To appease the deities,... | |
 | Olive Gilbert, Sojourner Truth - 1991 - 372 sider
...Penseroso, whom he imagines " 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-nymph's." Bub though Sojourner Truth has passed away from among us as a wave of the sea, her memory... | |
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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... 
