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! Milton & His Poetry - Seite 52von William Henry Hudson - 1912 - 184 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Martin Davy - 1809 - 34 Seiten
...тготе КтеГ^е Si афрае'мс, Kovpov Z»)öoto асакто?. Pur. Lost, Book III. 37. Again, And the mute silence hist along, 'Less Philomel will...saddest plight! Smoothing the rugged brow of night. Sweet bird that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy !" Il Penser. Г».1».... | |
| Martin Davy - 1809 - 28 Seiten
...'Less Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest, saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of night. Sweet bird that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy!" Il Penser. 5Ь. ' .'«.«k» 15 " I cannot light upon the passage in the Odyssey, where Penelope's... | |
| John Milton - 1810 - 540 Seiten
...bring, Him that yon soars on golden wing, Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne, The Cherub Contemplation; ; And the mute Silence hist along, 'Less Philomel will...While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er the accustom'd oak: Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee,... | |
| William Hayley - 1810 - 418 Seiten
...bring, Him that yon soars on golden wing, Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne, The Cherub Contemplation; And the mute Silence hist along, 'Less Philomel will...While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er the accustom'd oak: Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee,... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 Seiten
...bring. Him that yon soars on golden wing, Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne, The cherub Contemplation ; And the mute Silence hist along, 'Less Philomel will...While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke. Gently o'er the accustom'd oak : Sweetbird, that shunn'st the noiseof folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! Thee,... | |
| 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,...While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, ' Gently o'er th'accustom'd oak. 60 Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy !... | |
| Robert Deverell - 1813 - 596 Seiten
...that cross the person of Melancholy and which constitute the prototype of Hamlet's Ophelia (.fig, 61). 'Less Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest,...While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er th'accustom'd oak. 60 Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy !... | |
| John Milton - 1813 - 270 Seiten
...fiery-wheeled throne, The cherub Contemplation ; And the mute Silence hist along, 55 'Less Philomel will dt-ign a song, in her sweetest, saddest plight, Smoothing...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 musical,... | |
| Charles Fothergill - 1813 - 288 Seiten
...as an emblem of his " II Penseroso," when it was in his power thus to tune his heavenl/ lyre : — " 'Less Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest, saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged hrow of night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke Gently o'er th* nccustom'd oak . Sweet bird, that... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1848 - 494 Seiten
...complaining notes Tune my distresses, and record my woes.' Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act v., Scene 4. • ' Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! ' II Penseroso. See also<the exquisite allusions in Paradise Lost, Books iii. and m ciation only... | |
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