 | Charles Bucke - Nature - 1823 - 416 pages
...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... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...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 ev'ning song ; And missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth shaven green, To behold the wand'ring... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 682 pages
...entitles II Penseroso, the ideas of which were exquisitely suited to my present wanderings of thought. 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 that hath been led astray Through the heaven's... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 322 pages
...entitles II Penseroso, the ideas of which were exquisitely suited to my present wanderings of thought. 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 that hath been led astray Through the heaven's... | |
 | English essays - 1823 - 398 pages
...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... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 806 pages
...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... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...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...smooth^shaven green, To behold the wandering moon, Biding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 472 pages
...aureis. Sweet bird that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! Thee chauntress oft the woods among I woo to hear thy even-song; And...unseen 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 the heavVs... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...the Poet, and of which Milton is mindful in Allegro: — To the Nightingale. Sweet bird, that shun'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy...Chantress, oft, the Woods among, I woo, to hear thy Evening Song. Petrarch's beautiful sonnet, beginning " Quel Rosignol che si soave piagne," is well... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 572 pages
..."Lew 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 ! Thee chauntress oft the woods among I woo to hear thy even song; And missing thee, I walk unseen On the... | |
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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 accustom'd oak : Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy... 
