 Come, pensive Nun, devout and pure, Sober, steadfast, and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing with majestic train, And sable stole of cypress lawn Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step, and musing...  Penseroso - Page 16by John Milton - 1855 - 48 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Boaden - English literature - 1829 - 340 pages
...Alceste, the following lines of the Penseroso. " Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, Sober, stedfast, and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing with majestic train, And sable stole of Cyprus lawn, Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step, and... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 828 pages
...both the people with whom they commercer and also what commodities every country yielded. Raleigh. Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step and musing gait, And looks coiiniii'rciiiif with the skies, Thy wrapt soul sitting in thine eyes. ifuttn. When they might not... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...free His half-regained Eurydice. 1L PENSEROSO. COME, pensive Nun, devout and pure, Sober, stedfast, and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing, with majestic train, And sable stole of Cyprus lawn, Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come, but keep thy wonted state, , With even step, and... | |
 | John Mason Good - Natural history - 1831 - 482 pages
...fine imagination ; but is, perhaps, less true to nature than the preceding. Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, Sober, steadfast, and demure, All in a robe...darkest grain, Flowing with majestic train, And sable Mole of cyргcsа lawn Over thy decent shöulden drawn— Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...shades Of woody Ida's inmost grove, While yet there was no fear of Jove. so Come, pensive Nun, devout and pure, Sober, steadfast, and demure, All in a robe...grain, Flowing with majestic train, And sable stole of Cyprus lawn, ss Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step, and... | |
 | John Mason Good - Natural history - 1834 - 394 pages
...fine imagination ; but is, perhaps, less true to nature than the preceding. Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, Sober, steadfast, and demure, All in a robe...state, With even step, and musing gait, . And looks comfnercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes, There, held in holy passion, still... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...shades Of woody Ida's inmost grove, Whilst yet there was no fear of Jove. 30 Come, pensive Nun, devout and pure, Sober, steadfast, and demure, All in a robe...with majestic train, And sable stole of cypress lawn, 35 Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step, and musing gait;... | |
 | John Mason Good - Natural history - 1834 - 492 pages
...robe of daikrsi eraln, FlnwhiR wilh majestic train, And sable stole of cypress lawn Over Uiy deceoi shoulders drawn— Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step, and musing pаit, And looks commercing with the eklet, Thy rapt smil sitting in thine eyes. There held in holy... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 404 pages
...Spleen, p. 2. 12 To show the world how Garrick did not act. Book vi. 677. 13 Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, Sober, steadfast, and demure. All in a robe...grain Flowing with majestic train ; And sable stole of Cyprus lawn Over thy decent shoulders drawn, Come, but keep thy wonted state With even step, and pensive... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 416 pages
...Spleen, p. 2. 12 To show the world how Garrick did not act. Book vi. 677. 13 Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, Sober, steadfast, and demure, All in a robe...grain Flowing with majestic train ; And sable stole of Cyprus lawn Over thy decent shoulders drawn, Come, but keep thy wonted state With even step, and pensive... | |
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