| Louisa Stuart Costello - 1844 - 436 páginas
...purified from idolatry ; and Frederic and Elizabeth believed it to be a fairy vision, " Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live And dwell in the pighted clouds." Meantime, in spite of the gathering storm, Elizabeth and her husband... | |
| 1846 - 608 páginas
...sunny cherubims in which the figure of the Madonna is encircled, those lovely beings " In the color of the rainbow live, And play in the plighted clouds." It is but Murillo, Correggio, and Guido, that can paint cherubims. But it is difficult to bring the mind... | |
| 1846 - 708 páginas
...many rustic metaphors, tells her where he saw them, and " Took them for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play in the plighted clouds. — I was awe struck ;" and offers finally to guide the lady to the place. The lady takes his word,... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1846 - 620 páginas
...sunny cherubims in which the figure of the Madonna is encircled, those lovely beings " In the color of the rainbow live, And play in the plighted clouds." It is but Murillo, Correggio, and Guido, that can paint cherubims. But it is difficult to bring the mind... | |
| 1846 - 784 páginas
...sunny cherubims in which the figure of the Madonna is encircled, those lovely beings " In (he colour of the rainbow live, And play in the plighted clouds." It is but Murillo, Correggio, and Guido that can paint cherubiins. But it is difficult to bring the mind... | |
| John Milton - 1847 - 604 páginas
...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 of the rainbow live, And play in the plighted clouds. I was awestruck. And, as I pass'd, I worshipp'd; if those you seek It were a journey like the path... | |
| 1847 - 540 páginas
...compass soon, Swifter than the wandering moon. SHAKSPEARE. 2. I took it for a fairy vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of- the rainbow live, And play i' th' plighted clouds. MILTON'S Comus. 3. And now they throng the moonlight glade, Above — below—... | |
| 1847 - 526 páginas
...compass soon, Swifter than the wandering moon. SIIAKSPEARE. 2. I took it for a fairy vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i' th' plighted clouds. MILTON'S Comus. 3. And now they throng the moonlight glade, Above — below... | |
| Sir Edward Belcher - 1848 - 608 páginas
...untiring wings of gauze, these beautiful creatures, or as Shakespeare would term them : — " Those gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i' the plighted clouds." Volatile and erratic, their chief resort is about some dull, sequestered pool,... | |
| Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1848 - 358 páginas
...invention !" How can he judge of thoughts which penetrate the mysteries of humanity, of fancies which "in the colours of the rainbow live, and play in the plighted clouds," of anticipations and foretastes by which the bard already " breathes in worlds, to which the heaven... | |
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