 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
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - Children's literature, English - 1854 - 332 pages
...service high, and anthems clear, As may with sweetness, through mine ear Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all heav'n before mine eyes. And may at...and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of ev'ry star that heav'n doth show, And ev'ry herb that sips the dew; Till old Experience do attain... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...anthems clear, As may with sweetness through mine ear Dissolve me into ecstacies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes. And may, at last, my weary age,...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 poetry - 1854 - 456 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 show, And every herb that sips the dew ; Till old experience do attain... | |
 | John Broadbent - Literary Criticism - 1973 - 364 pages
...mazes of the wood. He supplies very much the kind of folk wisdom the poet wishes for in // 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 shew, And every herb that sips the dew; Till old experience do attain... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1879 - 456 pages
...cheerful man " was one of perennial youth. I must quote " the pensive man's " closing wish : — " May at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage,...and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Off every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience do attain... | |
 | Stanley Fish - Education - 1980 - 412 pages
...which the pensive man pledges himself in the poem's closing lines: Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that Heav'n doth shew, And every Herb...experience do attain, To something like Prophetic strain. (170-174) To spell is to decipher, to puzzle out, to consider, to think — to engage in just those... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth show, uts like cheese, But lasts like iron (1. 168-176) AWP; FiP; GTBS; GTBS-P; HAP, HoPM; JCP; LiTB; NoP; OAEL-1; OBEV; OBS; PPP; TEP; TrGrPo... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 340 pages
...(lines 163) and finally as the poem's conclusion, the poet-prophet: Where 1 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. (lines 170-6) The presence of Hermes and Plato at the centre of 'II Penseroso' is emphatic and serious.... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 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...The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and righdy spell 170 Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience... | |
 | Stanton J. Linden - Literary Criticism - 392 pages
..."pealing Organ" and "full voic'd Choir," these influences come to be identified with prophetic wisdom: 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 shew, And every Herb that sips the dew; Till old experience do attain... | |
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