...and sing the invocation to Sabrina ; the swart youth who shall be the magician, and say the lines, " At every fall, smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled " ; and the golden-haired maid who shall glide in and out in silvery attire, as the attendant spirit....

...has done. This is that which is called truly inspiration. When Milton flung forth these lines, — How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty vaulted night. At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled, \ do you suppose...

...somthing holy lodges in that brest, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testifie his hidd'n residence; How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night 250 At every fall smoothing the Raven doune 243 And give resounding grace] Edd. 1, 2, 1637: and hold...

...divine inchanting ravishment? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence. How...it smiled ! I have oft heard My mother Circe with the Sirens three, Amidst the flowery -kittled Naiades, Culling their potent hearbs and baleful drugs,...

...divine enchanting ravishment? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence: How...smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled! I oft have heard My mother Circe with the Sirens three Amidst the flow'ry-kirtled Naiades Culling their...

...music, with his characteristic mutation into sensuous imagery, as of someone's hair being stroked: How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence,...empty-vaulted night At every fall smoothing the Raven doune Of darkness till it smil'd . . . [249-52] And from here we move quickly into the world of Ovidian...

...the wind-grieved Appenine. At the foot of your rotten-runged, rat-riddled stairs. Milton did it, too: How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night. Charles Kingsley: The night -rack came rolling up, ragged and brown. Thomas Hardy once more: Your face,...

...somthing holy lodges in that brest, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testifie his hidd'n residence; How sweetly did they float upon the wings...empty-vaulted night At every fall smoothing the Raven doune Of darkncs till it smil'd . . . Meanwhile, her elder brother, realising that his sister is lost,...

...divine enchanting ravishment ? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence. How...smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled . . . Lorenzo to Jessica, Romeo to Juliet, had no more musical speeches: I'll speak to her, And she...

...lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air0 To testify his hidden residence;0 How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night 250 At every fall smoothing the raven down0 Of darkness till it smiled: I have oft heard My mother...