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" The air was calm, and on the level brine Sleek Panope with all her sisters played. It was that fatal and perfidious bark, Built in the eclipse, and rigged with curses dark, That sunk so low that sacred head of thine. "
The Works of the English Poets: Milton - Page 162
by Samuel Johnson - 1779
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A Day by the Fire: And Other Papers, Hitherto Uncollected

Leigh Hunt - 1870 - 374 pages
...burnt out, and he seems between sleep and waking. His Panope is very different from Milton's : — " The air was calm, and on the level brine Sleek Panope with all her sisters play'd.*' But these vagaries of Spenser do not hinder him from being a poet as elegant as he...
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A Household Book of English Poetry, Issue 160

1870 - 464 pages
...story ; 95 And sage Hippotades their answer brings, That not a blast was from his dungeon strayed ; The air was calm, and on the level brine Sleek Panope with all her sisters played. It was that fatal and perfidious bark, 100 Built in the eclipse, and rigged with curses...
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Milton's Samson agonistes and Lycidas, with notes etc., by J. Hunter, Volume 45

John Milton - 1870 - 116 pages
...story ; 95 And sage Hippotades their answer brings, That not a blast was from his dungeon strayed ; The air was calm, and on the level brine Sleek Panope with all her sisters played. It was that fatal and perfidious bark, 100 Built in the eclipse, and rigged with curses...
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English poems, ed. with life, intr. and selected notes by R.C. Browne, Volume 1

John Milton - 1870 - 436 pages
...his story, 95 And sage Hippotades their answer brings; That not a blast was from his dungeon stray'd, The air was calm, and on the level brine Sleek Panope with all her sisters play'd. It was that fatal and perfidious bark, 100 Next Camus, reverend sire, went footing...
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Favourite English poems and poets

English poems - 1870 - 722 pages
...his story ; And sage Hippotades their answer brings. That not a blast was from his dungeon strayed ; The air was calm, and on the level brine Sleek Panope with all her sisters played. It was that fatal and perfidious bark, Built in the eclipse, and rigged with curses...
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 4

1909 - 502 pages
...his story; And sage Hippotades their answer brings, That not a blast was from his dungeon strayed : The air was calm, and on the level brine Sleek Panope with all her sisters played. It was that fatal and perfidious bark, Built in the eclipse, and rigged with curses...
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The Cornhill Magazine

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1905 - 874 pages
...intended to depict the shipwreck of Lycidas. Now Milton expressly states that, at the time of the wreck, The air was calm, and on the level brine Sleek Panope with all her sisters play'd. Yet Turner has deliberately portrayed a violent storm, with every accompaniment of...
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The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry

Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...his story. And sage Hippotades their answer brings, That not a blast was from his dungeon stray 'd, The air was calm, and on the level brine, Sleek Panope with all her sisters play'd, It was that fatal and perfidious bark 100 Built in th'eclipse, and rigg'd with curses...
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Pastoral Process: Spenser, Marvell, Milton

Susan Snyder - 1998 - 268 pages
...assumed Lycidas and he, the swain, were at home. The winds and waves, however, deny responsibility: "The air was calm, and on the level brine, / Sleek Panope with all her sisters played" (98-99). Briny or not, the scene is the antithesis of violent destruction. In its serenity...
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The Classic Hundred Poems: All-time Favorites

William Harmon - 1998 - 386 pages
...of his story, And sage Hippotades their answer brings That not a blast was from his dungeon stray'd; The air was calm, and on the level brine Sleek Panope with all her sisters play'd. It was that fatal and perfidious bark, Built in th'eclipse, and rigg'd with curses...
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