 To hoarse or mute, though fallen on evil days, On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues, In darkness, and with dangers compassed round, And solitude ; yet not alone, while thou Visit'st my slumbers nightly, or when morn Purples the east. Still govern...  Evenings in Autumn: On the blindness of Homer, Ossian, and Milton. The ... - Page 278by Nathan Drake - 1822Full view - About this book
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1859 - 600 pages
...tongues; In darkness, and with dangers compassM round, And solitude ; yet not alone, while thou Visit's* my slumbers nightly, or when morn Purples the east...still govern thou my song, Urania, and fit audience tiud, though few. Bat drive fi»r off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus and his revellers, the race... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1859 - 604 pages
...on evil days, On evil days though lall'n, nnd evil tongues; In darkness, and with dangers compass'd round, And solitude; yet not alone, while thou Visit'st my slumbers nightly, or when morn I'urples the east : still govern thou my song, b'nuiia, and fit audience find, though tew. But drive... | |
 | North American review - 1860 - 634 pages
...evil days, — On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues ; In darkness, and with dangers compassed round, And solitude : yet not alone, while thou Visit'st...song, Urania, and fit audience find, though few." And at the beginning of the Ninth Book he says : — " I now must change These notes to tragic ; If... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1861 - 734 pages
...while thou Visit'st my slumbers nightly, or when morn Purples the east: still govern thou my song, Ji" Urania, and fit audience find, though few. But drive...dissonance Of Bacchus and his revellers, the race Of thst wild rout that tore the Thracian bard 1 In Rhodope, 2 where woods and rocks had ears To rapture,... | |
 | John Milton, James Montgomery - 1861 - 578 pages
...; In darkness, and with dangers compass'd round, And solitude ; yet not alone, while thou Visit' st my slumbers nightly, or when morn Purples the east : still govern thou my song, 30 Urania, and fit audience find, though few. But drive far off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus... | |
 | John Milton - 1862 - 366 pages
...tongues, In darkness, and with dangers compassed round, And solitude ; yet not alone, while thou Visitest my slumbers nightly, or when morn Purples the east. Still govern thou my song, s Urania, and fit audience find, though few ; But drive far off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...Act III. Scene 4. (Constance, the mother of Arthur, talking at Pandulph the Pope's legate.) SONG. — Still govern thou my song, Urania, and fit audience find, though few. MILTON. — Paradise Lost, Book VII. Line 80. SONNETTEER.—What woful stuff this madrigal would be,... | |
 | John Milton - 1864 - 584 pages
...evil days ; On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues ; In darkness, and with dangers compassed round, And solitude ! yet not alone, while thou Visit'st...Morn Purples the East : still govern thou my song, 30 Urania ! and fit audience find, though few : But drive far off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...mute, though fallen on evil days, On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues. Book vii. Line 24. Still govern thou my song, Urania, and fit audience find-, though few. Book vii. Line 30. Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb. Book viii. Line 84. And feel that I am happier than... | |
 | 1866 - 410 pages
...on evil days, 25 On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues, In darkness, and with dangers compast round, And solitude ; yet not alone, while thou Visit'st...morn Purples the east. Still govern thou my song, a Urania, and fit audience find, though few. But drive far off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus... | |
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