 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 Seiten
...Smoothing the rugged brow of night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o er th' accustom'd oak ; Sweet bird that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most...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... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 Seiten
...remarked that this stanza is indebted to the following passage in the 11 Penseroso of Milton, ver. 61 : " Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy !* * Gaw. Douglas, in his Translation of Virgil, Prolog- to book xiii. p. 450, describes the notes... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 Seiten
...; While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er the accustom'd oak ; Sweet bird, that, shuun'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy...Thee, chantress, oft the woods among I woo to hear thy even-song ; And missing thue, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wand'ring... | |
 | 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 musical! most melancholy ! Thee, chauntress, oft the woods among, I woo to hear thy ev'ning song: And missing thee I walk unseen On... | |
 | 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 musical, most melancholy ! Thee chauntress, oft the woods among, I woo to hear thy evening song." In another place he styles it the... | |
 | 1822 - 666 Seiten
...Milton, in his beautiful poem, II Penseroso, describes it in the following lines of poetic excellence : " Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most...chantress, oft the woods among I woo, to hear thy eren-song." Again : — " The sweet poet of the vernal groves Melts all the night in strains of am'rons... | |
 | 1822 - 284 Seiten
...sweetest saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke,. Sweet Bird! that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most...Chantress! oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song ; And, missing tine, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 234 Seiten
...the rugged brow of night. . . While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er the aocustom'd oak ; Sweet bird that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! Thee chaunt ress, oft, the woods among I woo to hear thy evening song ; And missing thee, I walk unseen... | |
 | Thomas Gosden - 1822 - 80 Seiten
...heard alone ; whence the poets have always made the song of the nightingale a nocturnal serenade — Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy 1 The chauntress, oft, the woods among I woo to hear thy even-song. MILTON. and the names of several... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1823 - 416 Seiten
...ipsa referre sonos. Of her melancholy no one has given a more delightful description than Milton ; Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most...Thee, chantress, oft the woods among I woo to hear thy evening song. So great a favourite was the nightingale with this poet, that he never omits an opportunity... | |
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Less Philomel will deign a song In her sweetest saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of Night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke Gently o'er the accustomed oak; Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! 
