 Plucking ripe 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  Fanny - Page 4by Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1821 - 63 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Books and bookselling - 1796 - 512 pages
...:— «• Their port wa« more than human at they flood— — I took it for a fairy viflon, Of fomc gay creatures of the element» That in the colours of the rainbow live« And play in th" plighted clouds— I wa* awe-ilruck, And, » I palbM, I wurfhipp'd. This fine paflage gives me,... | |
 | English drama - 1797 - 468 pages
...tender shoots : Their port was more than human ; " as they stood " I took it for a fairy vision 3jt " Of some gay creatures of the element, " That in the colours of the rainbow live, " And play i' th* lighted clouds. I was awe-struck, " And as I pass'd I worshipp'd :" if those you seek It were... | |
 | John Milton, Thomas Warton - English drama - 1799 - 148 pages
...ripe clusters from the 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 i' th' plighted clouds. I was awe-struck, And, as I pass'd, I worshipp'd; if those you seek, It were... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - English fiction - 1801 - 258 pages
...of the Peries. " Their port wns more than human as they flood; I took it far af:;iry viiion Of fome gay creatures of the element That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i' th' plighted clouds." Of mufk, camphire, ambergris, and fimilar fragrant fubftances, the Perfnns... | |
 | English literature - 1802 - 610 pages
...performing offices different from su^h, $s have been hitherto assigned to thoac . . • .. ."> • Gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, " And play i' th' plighted clouds." ' This liberty I thought might be taken without violation of propriety, as... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - English fiction - 1803 - 274 pages
...persian poets have conceived of the peries. ' Their port was more than human as the; Hood; I took it for a fairy vision Of some gay creatures of the element That in the colors of the rainbow live, And play i' lh' flighted clouds.' Of musk, camplurc, ambergris, and similar... | |
 | John Black - Dialect drama, Scottish - 1806 - 260 pages
...class of imaginary beings cslled Peris : These are represented as benignant and beautiful females, Gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i' the plighted clouds. Comus, /. 300. They hover in the balmy and fragrant air, and live upon the... | |
 | John Black - Dialect drama, Scottish - 1806 - 258 pages
...class of imaginary beings called Peris : These are represented as benignant and beautiful females, Gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i' the plighted clouds. Cemui, I. 300. With these beautiful beings, we are told the Persians contrast... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 434 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' th' plighted clouds. I was awe-struck, And as I past, I worshipt ; if those you seek,... | |
 | John Milton - 1808 - 96 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 rainhow live, 300 And play i' the plighted clonds. I was aw-struck, And, as I past, I worshipt; if... | |
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