 | John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...two whom the poet M 2 , So were I equall'd with them in renown, Blind Thamyris and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias and Phineus prophets old: Then feed on...wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid principally desires to resemble : and it seems as if he had intended at first to mention only these... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 572 pages
...compares his own making verses in his blindness to the nightingale's singing in the dark. iii. 37. Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers ; as the wakeful bird BOOK VII. Ceas'd warbling, but all night tun'd her soft lays: Others on silver lakes and rivers bath'd... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...with them in renown !) Í :iiml Thamyris, and blind Ma;onides : 35 And Tiresias and Pbineus, piophets old. Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers ; as the wakeiul bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...equall'd with me in fate. So were I equall'd with them in renown, Blind Thamyris and blind Maxmides, And Tiresias and Phineus, prophets old : Then feed...as 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,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1825 - 278 pages
...into very unequal portions : such as that after the first, and before the last semipede* thus ivith the year Seasons return, but not to me returns , Day" or the sweet approach of even or morn. expectedly, and forcibly impresses the imagination with the greatness of the authors loss, the loss... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1826 - 318 pages
...with me in fate, So were I equal'd with them in renown ! Blind Thamyris, and blind Mffionides ; 35 And Tiresias, and Phineus, prophets old : Then feed...covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year 10 Seasons return : but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, } Or sight of... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1826 - 312 pages
...were I equal'd with them in renown! Blind Thamyris, and blind Moeonides ; 35 And Tiresias, and Phmeus, prophets old : Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary...wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid T«nes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year 10 Seasons return: but not to me returns Day, or the... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...Tiresias, and Pliincus, prophets old : Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers ; ns the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Tims with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or mom,... | |
 | Bible - 1827 - 294 pages
...equalled with me in fate, So were I equalled with them in renown, 34 Blind Thamyris, and blind Meeonides, And Tiresias, and Phineus, prophets old : Then feed...returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, 42 Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, 43 Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud... | |
 | Gift books - 1828 - 318 pages
...equalled with me in fate, So were I equalled with them in renown, Blind Thamyris and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias and Phineus prophets old ; Then feed...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,... | |
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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,... 
