| John Milton - 1810 - 540 Seiten
...Smoothing the rugged brow of night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er the accustom'd oak: Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most...hear thy even-song; And, missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon,^| Like... | |
| Robert Deverell - 1813 - 588 Seiten
...and which constitute the prototype of Hamlet's Ophelia (fig. 61). And the mute Silence hist along, 55 'Less Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest,...being composed of, Hudibras's hand. Vide that note. 69. Cynthia, or the moon, alludes I imagine ' to the crescent-shape of the bird on Ralph's person (fig.... | |
| John Milton - 1813 - 270 Seiten
...the rugged brow of night| "While Cynthia checks her dragon yoket Gently o'er th' accustom'd oak; & Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most...thee, I walk unseen 65 On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wand'ring moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through... | |
| Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 728 Seiten
...Smoothing the rugged brow of night ; While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er the accustom'd oak ; Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most...chauntress, oft the woods among, I woo to hear thy evening song. * jGllan Var. Hist. 577, both in the text and note. It must be remarked, that nightingales... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 Seiten
...oak ; Sweet bird that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! Thee, chantress, oft the woods among I woo, to hear thy even-song, And missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wand'ring moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 Seiten
...Night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er the' accustom'd oak : Sweet bird, that shun'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy...hear thy even-song ; And, missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one... | |
| James Ferguson - 1819 - 342 Seiten
...entitles II Penseroso, the ideas of which were exquisitely suited to my present wanderings of thought. " Sweet bird! that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most...chauntress, oft the woods among, I woo to hear thy ev'ning song: And missing thee I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wand'ring... | |
| Joseph Taylor - 1820 - 122 Seiten
...Smoothing the nigged brow of night, While Cynthia checks the dragon yoke Gently o'er the accustom'd oak. Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most...chauntress, oft the woods among, I woo to hear thy evening song." In another place he styles it the solemn bird} and he says again : " As the wakeful... | |
| John Aikin - 1820 - 832 Seiten
...oak : Sweet bird, that sliunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! Thee, chantrcss, 'd Po B/+ On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering Moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one... | |
| Edward Polehampton - 1821 - 752 Seiten
...the riigged brow of night ; While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er the accustom'd oak ; Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most...chauntress, oft the woods among, . ' . I woo to hear thy evening song. * .EIj. in Var. Hist. 677, both in the text and note. It mast be remarked t iws nightingales... | |
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