| John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...equall'd with me in fate, So were I equall'd with them in renown, 35 Blind Thamyris, and blind Mseonides, And Tiresias, and Phineus, prophets old ; Then feed...wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid 40 Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...Thamyris, and blind Mironidcs, And Tiresioa, and Phincus, prophets old : Then feed on thoughts, lhat ce, with delight receiv'd In brief sententious precepts,...fate and chance, and chance in human life. High act wilh the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...equall'd with me in fate, So were I equalTd with them in renown, Blind Thamyris, and blind Maeonides, ethinks we wandering go Through dreary wastes, and...Where round some mouldering tower pale ivy creeps, Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...equall'd with me in fate, So were I equall'd with them in renown. Blind Thamyris, and blind Maxmides, d the night-raven sings ; There under ebon shades,...goddess fair and free, In Heaven yclep'd Euphrosyne, Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal... | |
| John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...equall'd with me in fate, So were I equall'd with them in renown, Blind Thamyris, and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias, and Phineus, prophets old : Then feed...hid, Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, Or sight of vernal... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1843 - 592 pages
...were I equall'd with them in renown, Blind Thamyris and blind Maonides , And Tiresias and Phincus , prophets old : Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary...hid , Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return , but not to me returns Day , or the sweet approach of even or morn , Or sight of vernal... | |
| English poetry - 1844 - 92 pages
...equalled with me in fate, So were I equalled with them in renown, Blind Thamyris, and blind Meeonides, And Tiresias, and Phineus, prophets old; Then feed...covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal... | |
| Albert Henry Payne - 1844 - 270 pages
...were I equall'd with them in renown, Blind Thamyris and blind Mteonides,* And Tiresias and Phineas, prophets old : Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary...wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tnnes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...others." So were I equalled with them in renown, Blind Thamyris, and blind Maeonides,1 And Tiresias,2 and Phineus, prophets old : Then feed on thoughts...covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal... | |
| Anna Maria Hall - 842 pages
...Milton, in his Address to Light , compares himself to the Nightingale in these words : — " Then fced on thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers...Sings darkling, and, in shadiest covert hid, Tunes her noeturnal note.'' Moore, however, has tho following stanza on a comparison betwcen love and the Nightingale's... | |
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