 And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic...  The Chilswell Book of English Poetry - Page 194edited by - 1924 - 272 pagesFull view - About this book
 | South - 1835 - 300 pages
...The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell, Of every star that Heav'n doth show And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience...Melancholy, give, And I with thee will choose to live. In these grottoes he lived a hermit, and numbers of devotees resorted to him, to live under his pious... | |
 | Europe, Southern - 1835 - 292 pages
...the side of the river. Saint Adalferio seems to have had the wish so beautifully expressed by Milton. And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful...and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell, Of every star that Heav'n doth show And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience do attain... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 390 pages
...Find out the peacefull hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that Heav'n doth shew, And every herb...Melancholy, give, And I with thee will choose to live. ON HtS BLtNDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days in this dark world and wide,... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 336 pages
...The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that Heav'n doth show, And every herb that sips the dew ; Till old Experience...Melancholy, give, And I with thee will choose to live. ON HIS BLINDNESS. WHEN I consider how my light is spout Ere half my days in this dark world and wide,... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 496 pages
...service high, and anthems clear, As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, 165 And bring all heav'n before mine eyes. And may at...and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell ITO Of every star that heav'n doth show, And every herb that sips the dew ; Till old experience do... | |
 | 546 pages
...cannot help, in traversing its cells, to think of the beautiful lines of Milton in " II Penseroao" — " And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful...and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth show, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience doth attain... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...high, and anthems clear, As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, • 165 And bring all heav'n before mine eyes. And may at...and rightly spell 170 Of every star that heav'n doth show, And every herb that sips the dew ; Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1848 - 550 pages
...cannot help, in traversing its cells, to think of the beautiful lines of Milton in " II Penseroso" — " And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful...and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth show, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience doth attain... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...anthems clear, As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes. And may at last my weary age Find...and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew ; Till old experience do attain... | |
 | American periodicals - 1840 - 566 pages
...and thereby helps the thoughts to Heaven. The prayer of the poet well describes many a hoary saint : 'And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful...and mossy cell, Where I may sit, and rightly spell Of every star that Heaven doth show, And every herb that sips the dew; Till old experience do attain... | |
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