| John Milton, Thomas Warton - English drama - 1799 - 148 pages
...Above, about, or underneath, Sent by some spirit to mortals good, Or th" unseen genius of the wood. But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antic pillars, massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim... | |
| Richard Lovell Edgeworth - English poetry - 1802 - 152 pages
...Milton's numbers is entirely independent of rhime : on the contrary, rhime rather encumbers him. M But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high-embowed roof, . With antic pillars massy proof, And storied windows, richly dight, Casting a dim... | |
| John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...Above, about, or underneath, Sent by some spirit to mortals good, Or th' unseen Genius of the wood. But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antic pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim... | |
| John Milner - Winchester (England) - 1809 - 320 pages
...the moft fublime and affecting fentiments, as the former teftifies in the following ftrain : — O let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embowed roof With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows, richly dight, Casting a dim... | |
| John Chetwode Eustace - Italy - 1815 - 500 pages
...especially when we learn from our very infancy To walk the studious cloister pale, And love the high imbowed roof, . 'With antique pillars, massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. If to these enchantments we • add the pealing organ, the full-voiced choir, the... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...Above, about, or underneath, Sent by some spirit to mortals good, Or th' unseen Genius of the wood. But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale. And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof. And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim,... | |
| Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Maria Edgeworth - English poetry - 1816 - 262 pages
...in the morning, and not a love tale. There is another error in explaining• the following lines, " Let my due feet never fail, " To walk the studious cloisters pale." Page 80. — Pale is here explained to mean dim, but this is an error. — Pale here is a substantive,... | |
| Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...wood. But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale And love the high embowed roof With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religions light; There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced choir below, .. . A service high,... | |
| George Horne (bp. of Norwich.) - 1818 - 574 pages
...liberally towards the erection of an episcopal chapel, 1 See Bingham. b. viii. ch. vii. sect. 14. k But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, . And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proofy And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim... | |
| George Horne, William Jones - Theology - 1818 - 566 pages
...liberally towards the erection of an episcopal chapel, 1 See Biughatn. b. viii. ch. vii. sect. 14. k But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And stoned windows richly dight, Casting a dim... | |
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