 | William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 422 pages
...equall'd with me in fate, So were 1 equall'd with them m renown, BKr.d Thamy ris, and blind Maeonides ; And Tiresias, and Phineus, prophets old : Then feed...covert hid. Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the yeari , Seasons return— but not to- me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1820 - 434 pages
...equall'd with me in fate, 9o were I equall'd with them in renown, Blind Thamyris, and blind M;ieonides ; And Tiresias, and Phineus, prophets old : Then feed...shadiest covert hid, Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus «hh the year, Seasons return— bat not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn,... | |
 | Joseph Taylor - Boxing - 1820 - 122 pages
...woo to hear thy evening song." In another place he styles it the solemn bird} and he says again : " As the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and, in shadiest covert hid, Tunes her nocturnal note." Origin of Rosemary, Cypress, and Yew, being distributed at Funerals, &c. In ancient times, it was customary... | |
 | John Milton - Fall of man - 1820 - 342 pages
...equall'd with me in fate, So were I equall'd with them in renown, Blind Thamyris and blind Maeonides, $5 And Tiresias and Phineus, prophets old ; Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious number? ; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Times her nocturnal note.... | |
 | William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 398 pages
...were I equall'd with them in renown, Blind Thamyris, and blind Ma'onides ; And Tiresias, and I'hineus, prophets old : Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers — as the wateeful bird '' .' Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid, *^, • Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus... | |
 | John Bowdler - Hymns, English - 1821 - 510 pages
...Sion, and the flow'ry brooks beneath, That wash thy hallow'd feet, and warbling flow, Nightly 1 visit : as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and, in shadiest...with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks,... | |
 | John Milton - 1821 - 346 pages
...were I equall'd with them in renown, Blind Thamyris and blind Maeonides, 35 And Tiresias and Phinens, prophets old : Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers ; as the wakeful hird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year 40 Seasons... | |
 | sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1821 - 264 pages
...thoughts, or studied facts; never the flow of the unsought visitings of the Muse. He never seemed " To feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sits darkling, and, in shadiest covert hid, Tunes her nocturnal note." The Poty-olbion is a wonderful... | |
 | English poetry - 1822 - 418 pages
...equall'd with me in fate, So were I equall'd with them in renown,— Blind Thamyris, and blind Ma'onides, And TiresiaS and Phineus, prophets old : Then feed...not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even and morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or (locks, or herds, or human face divine ; But... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...equall'd with me in fate, So were I equall'd with them in renown, Blind Thamyris and blind Mœonides, o the sprays retire ; When no rude gale disturbs the...aspen leaves confess the gentlest breeze ; Engag'd Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or mom, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or... | |
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Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert 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 bloom, or summer's rose,... 
