Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill, Smit with the love of sacred song ; but chief Thee, Sion, and the flowery brooks beneath, That wash thy hallow'd feet, and warbling flow, Nightly I visit... The Poetical Works of John Milton - Page 129by John Milton - 1886 - 581 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...So thick a drop serene hath quench'd their orbs, Or dim suffusion veil'd. Yet not the more Cease 1 to wander where the Muses haunt Clear spring, or shady...love of sacred song ; but chief Thee, Sion, and the flow'ry brooks beneath, 30 That wash thy hallow'd feet, and warbling flow, Nightly I visit: nor sometimes... | |
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quench'd their orbs, Or dim suffusion veil'd. Yet not the more 26 Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt Clear spring,...love of sacred song ; but chief Thee, Sion, and the flow'ry brooks beneath, 30 That wash thy hallow'd feet, and warbling flow, Nightly I visit : nor sometimes... | |
| John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...thick a drop serene hath quench'd their orbs, i5 Or dim suffusion veil'd. Yet not the more Cease 1 to wander where the Muses haunt Clear spring, or shady...love of sacred song ; but chief Thee, Sion, and the flow'ry brooks beneath, 30 That wash thy hallow'd feet, and warbling flow, Nightly I visit : nor sometimes... | |
| English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quench' d their orbs, Or dim suffusion veil'd. Yet not the niore Cease I to wander, where the Muses haunt Clear spring,...love of sacred song; but chief Thee, Sion, and the flow'ry brooks beneath, That wash thy hallow'd feet, and warbling flow, Nightly I visit; nor sometimes... | |
| David Simpson - Apologetics - 1809 - 410 pages
...is so justly entitled^) Give every author the honour due unto him, and sing with our epic bard : ' Yet not the more Cease I to wander, where the muses...love of Sacred song ; but chief Thee, Sion, and the flow'ry brooks beneath That wash thy hallow'd feet, and warbling flow, Nightly I visit." This book,... | |
| William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn; So thick a drop serene hath quench'd their orbs, Or dim suffusion veil'd. Yet not the more Cease I...fate, So were I equall'd with them in renown, Blind Thamyris, and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias, and Phirteue, prophets old: Then feed on droughts, that... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...the more Cease I to wander, where the Muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill, Srait with the love of sacred song ; but chief Thee, Sion,...sometimes forget Those other two equall'd with me in fate, 9o were 1 equall'd with them in renown, Blind Thamyris, ami blind Ma;onides, And Tiresias, and Phineus,... | |
| Nicolas Freeman, Antoine Jay - French essays - 1812 - 442 pages
...So thick a drop serene. hath quench'd their orbs, Or dim suffusion veil'd. Yet, not the more Çease I to wander where the Muses haunt, Clear spring, or...love of sacred song ; but chief Thee, Sion, and the flow'ry brooks beneath, That wash thy hallow'd feet, and warbling flow, Nightly I visit : nor sometimes... | |
| William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quench'd their orbs, Or dim suffusion veil'd. Yet not the more Cease I...Smit with the love of sacred song — but chief Thee, Zion, and the flowery brooks beneath, That wash thy hallow'd feet, and warbling flow, ^Nightly I visit... | |
| 1814 - 984 pages
...can wish for our edification, or improvement, which this fund of knowledge doth not supply. — — Yet not the more, Cease I to wander where the Muses...Smit with the love of sacred song ; but chief Thee, Zion, and the flow'ry banks beneath, That washed thy hallowed feet, and warbling flow, Nightly I visit.... | |
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