 For if such holy song Enwrap our fancy long, Time will run back, and fetch the age of gold, And speckled Vanity Will sicken soon and die, And leprous Sin will melt from earthly mould, And Hell itself will pass away, And leave her dolorous mansions to...  A Book of Christmas Verse - Page 65edited by - 1926 - 200 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1791 - 668 pages
...give one initance from the latter. Co« KIOLAN. A. ii. S.iii. Voi. J. Mm An4 Yea Truth and Juftice then Will down return to men, Orb'd in a rainbow ; and like glories wearing Mercy will fit between, Thron'd in celeftial fheen> With radiant feet the tiflued clouds down fteering : And heav'n,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 842 pages
...will pafs away, And leave her dolorous manfions to the peering day. 140 XV. Yea Truth and Juftice :hen Will down return to men, Orb'd in a rainbow ; and like glories wearing Mercy will fit between, Thron'd in celeftial fhecn, 14; With radiant feet the tiflucd clouds dawn fleering, And... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...of Gold; And speckled Vanity Will sicken soon and die, And leprous Sin will melt from earthly mold; And Hell itself will pass away, And leave her dolorous mansions to the peering day* xv. Yea Truth and Justice then Will down return to men, Orb'd in a rainbow ; and, like glories wearing,... | |
 | John Milton, Henry John Todd - 1809 - 456 pages
...Righteoufnefs fully rofe, when he began to exercife his miniftry. DUNSTEH. XV. Yea, Truth and Juftice then Will down return to men, Orb'd in a rainbow ; and, like glories wearing, Mercy will fit between, * Thron'd in celeftial fheen, us Ver. 143. Orb'd in a raiiiboio ; and, like glories wearing,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...gold; And speckled Vanity Will sicken soon and die, And leprous Sin will melt from earthly mould ; And Hell itself will pass away, And leave ' her dolorous...and, like glories wearing, Mercy will sit between, Tbron'd in celestial sheen, With radiant feet the tissued clouds down And Heaven, as at some festival,... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...gold; And speckled Vanity Will sicken soon and die, And leprous Sin will melt from earthly mould ; And Hell itself will pass away, And leave her dolorous mansions to the peering day. XV. Yea, Truth and Justice then Will down return to men, Orb'd in a rainbow; and, like glories wearing,... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 pages
...gold; And speckled Vanity Will sicken soon and die, And leprous Sin will melt from earthly mould ; And Hell itself will pass away, And leave her dolorous mansions to the peering day. XV. Yea, Truth and Justice then Will down return to men, Orb'd in a rainbow; and, like glories wearing,... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1810 - 446 pages
...And shackled vanity Will sicken soon and die, And leprous sin will melt from earthly mould, And Ml itself will pass away, And leave her dolorous mansions to the peering day." Our immortal bard, as above remarked, has been often and justly censured for blending together the... | |
 | Robert Treat Paine - American literature - 1812 - 572 pages
...1.20. p. 141, 1. 8. And fondly woot the rainbow-mantled Dame. Milton in his Christmas Hymn XT. says Truth and justice then Will down return to men, Orb'd...rainbow, and like glories wearing Mercy will sit between, Scc. Such is the reading of the edition of 1 673 ; in the edition of 1645 it stood thus Th* enameli'd... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 270 pages
...mould ; And IK II itself will pass away. 1$9 And leave her dolorous mansions to the peering day. XV. Yea, Truth and Justice then Will down return to men,...Mercy will sit between, Thron'd in celestial sheen, 145 XVL But wisest Fate says no, This must not yet be so, 15f The b;tbe yet lies in smiling infancy,... | |
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