...follows, is among the finest beauties of composition. EXAMPLE. Hence ! loathed Melancholy, Of Cerbefiis, and blackest Midnight born, In Stygian cave forlorn,...brooding darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night raven sings ; There, ur.der ebon shades and low-browed rocks, As ragged as thy locks, In dark...

...gorgeous East, with richest hand, , Showers, on her kings barbaric, pearF and gold', Satan exalted sat. 2. Hence ! loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest...brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings And the night raven sings ; There, under ebon shades and low-browed rocks, As ragged as thy locks, In dark...

...Attired with stars, we shall forever sit, Triumphing over Death, and Chance, and thee, O Time. L'ALLEORO. HENCE, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest...shrieks, and sights unholy ! Find out some uncouth cell, AVhere brooding darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night raven sings; There under ebon shades...

...poetical description of what is sublime or awful. Of this we have an instance in Milton's L' Allegro: Hence, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest...cell, Where brooding darkness spreads his jealous \rings, And the night raven sings ; There under ebon shades, and low - brow'd rocks, As ragged as thy...

...pale] Warton conjectures that the right reading may be ' the studious cloister's pale,' ie enclosure. L'ALLEGRO. HENCE, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus...shrieks, and sights unholy, Find out some uncouth cell, 5 Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night raven sings ; There under ebon shades,...

...last he rose, and twitch'd his mantle blue: To-morrow to fresh woods, and pastures new. L' ALLEGR 0. HENCE, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest...and sights unholy ! •Find out some uncouth cell, 5 Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the mght-raven sings; There under ebon shades,...

...Black, fearful, comfortlest, and horrible. SHAKSPEARE. The blacke and doleful ebonie. SPENSER'S ELEGY. Hence, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest...shades, and low-brow'd rocks, As ragged as thy locks, /// dark Cimmerian desart ever dwell. MILTON, L'ALLEGRO. 'Tis so strange, That, though the truth of...

...requires a lower tone of voice, and a sameness nearly approaching to a monotone, to give it variety. Hence ! loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest...brooding darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night raven sings ; There under ebon shades and £ino-browed rocks, As ragged as thy locks, In dark...

...thought, and faney. In foree of style no one, we think, hss ever approached him. MILTON. L'ALLBGRO. HENCE, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest...brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night raven sings; There under ebon shades, and low brow'd roeks, As ragged as thy loeks, In dark Cimmerian...

...beauty of description, thought, and faney. In foree of style no. one, we think, has ever approached him. In Stygian cave forlorn, 'Mongst horrid shapes, and...brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night raven sings ; There under ebon shades, and low brow'd roeks, As ragged as thy loeks, In dark...