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" Phineus, prophets old : Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid, Tunes her nocturnal note. "
The Poetical Works of John Milton - Page 86
by John Milton - 1852
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Milton's Paradise Lost: With Copious Notes, Explanatory and Critical, Partly ...

John Milton, James Prendeville - Bible - 1850 - 452 pages
...Phineus on account of the prosody, and read the line thus :— Blind Thamyris, and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias, and Phineus, prophets old; Then feed...darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note.1 Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even,...
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The Paradise Lost

John Milton - Bible - 1850 - 594 pages
...nequt are frequently the same as et non. 34. So: In like manner. Oh, that I were in like manner, &c. And Tiresias and Phineus prophets old : Then feed...wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Ithaca Tiraias : A celebrated Theban prophet, of the cause of whoso blindness various accounts are...
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The Paradise Lost: With Notes, Explanatory and Critical

John Milton - 1850 - 564 pages
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Paradise Lost

John Milton - Authors, English - 1851 - 428 pages
...equnll'd with me in fate, So were I equall'd with them in renown, Blind Thamyria and blind Meeonidos, And Tiresias and Phineus, prophets old. Then feed...the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and, in shadiest eovert hid, Tunes her noeturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day,...
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Chambers's Repository of Instructive and Amusing Tracts

534 pages
...sometimes, forget Those other two, equalled with me in fate, So were I equalled with them in renown, -And Tiresias, and Phineus, prophets old : Then feed...with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks,...
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The Works of the British Poets, Selected and Chronologically Arranged ...

English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...equall'd with me in fate, So were I equall'd with them in renown, Blind Thamyris, and blind Mieonides, nd, Confus'd, unnumber'd multitudes are found, mo returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose,...
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Paradiso perduto di Milton

John Milton - 1852 - 858 pages
...1 cqtiall'd with them in renown , Blind Thamyris , and blind Mœonides , And Tiresias, and Phinens, prophets old : Then feed on thoughts , that voluntary...with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day , or the sweet approach of even or morn . Or sight .of vernal bloom , or summer's rose , Or flocks,...
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Studies from the English Poets

George Frederick Graham - English literature - 1852 - 570 pages
...equalled with them in renown ; Blind Thamyris2, and blind Mseonides3, 35 And Tiresias4, and Phineus5, prophets old : Then feed on thoughts that voluntary...covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year 40 Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal...
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Chambers's Repository of Instructing and Amusing Tracts, Volumes 1-3

English literature - 1852 - 832 pages
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Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality

Edward Young - English poetry - 1852 - 528 pages
...with them in renown, Blind Thamyris and blind Jtfceonides, And Tircsias and Pliinens prophets old: f Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious...shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus witli the year Seasons return, but not to me return* J)ay, or the street approach of ev*n or morn,...
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