...prophetic strain. These pleasures Melancholy give, 175 And I with thee will choose to live. L'ALLEGRO. HENCE, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest...shrieks, and sights unholy, Find out some uncouth cell, 5 Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night raven sings ; There under ebon shades,...

...Find out some uncouth cell, 5 Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night raven sings ; There under ebon shades, and low-brow'd rocks,...as thy locks, In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell. 10 But come thou Goddess fair and free, In heav'n y-clep'd Euphrosyne, And by Men, heart-easing Mirth,...

...Black, fearful, comfortlest, and horrible. SHAKSPEARE. The blacke and doleful ebonie. SPENSER'S ELEGY. Hence, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest...shades, and low-brow'd rocks, As ragged as thy locks, /// dark Cimmerian desart ever dwell. MILTON, L'ALLEGRO. 'Tis so strange, That, though the truth of...

...requires a lower tone of voice, and a sameness nearly approaching to a monotone, to give it variety. Hence ! loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest...brooding darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night raven sings ; There under ebon shades and £ino-browed rocks, As ragged as thy locks, In dark...

...thought, and faney. In foree of style no one, we think, hss ever approached him. MILTON. L'ALLBGRO. HENCE, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest...brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night raven sings; There under ebon shades, and low brow'd roeks, As ragged as thy loeks, In dark Cimmerian...

...beauty of description, thought, and faney. In foree of style no. one, we think, has ever approached him. In Stygian cave forlorn, 'Mongst horrid shapes, and...brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night raven sings ; There under ebon shades, and low brow'd roeks, As ragged as thy loeks, In dark...

...like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again. L'ALLEGRO ; OR, THE MERRY MAN.— Milton. Hence, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest...brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night raven sings ; There, under ebon shades, and low-brow'd rocks, As rugged as thy locks, In dark...

...prophetic strain. These pleasures Melancholy give, 175 And I with thee will choose to live. L'ALLEGRO. HENCE, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest...shrieks, and sights unholy, Find out some uncouth cell, 5 Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night raven sings ; There under ebon shades,...

...conjectures that the right reading may be « the studious cloister's pale,' ie enclosure. L'ALLEGRO. HENCE, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest...shrieks, and sights unholy, Find out some uncouth cell, 5 Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night raven sings ; There under ebon shades,...

...shuts up with loss of breath, And leaves no epilogue but Death ! JOHN MILTON. 1608-1674. L'ALLEGRO. HENCE, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest...forlorn, 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unFind out some uncouth cell, [holy ! Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous And the night-raven...