 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 362 pages
...entitles II Penseroso, the ideas of which were exquisitely suited to my present wanderings of thought. " Sweet bird ! that shun'st the noise of folly, Most musical ! most melancholy ! Thee, cliantress, oft, the woods among, I woo to hear thy ev'ning song : And missing thee I walk unseen On... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 596 pages
...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,...saddest plight, Smoothing, the rugged brow of night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er th'accustom'd oak. 60 Sweet bird, that shunn'st the... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 588 pages
...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,...saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, ' Gently o'er th'accustom'd oak. 60 Sweet bird, that shunn'st... | |
 | Charles Fothergill - Philosophy - 1813 - 288 pages
...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 270 pages
...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 the rugged brow of night| "While Cynthia checks her dragon yoket Gently o'er th' accustom'd oak; & Sweet bird, that shunn'st... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...bring w Him that yon soars on golden wing, Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne, The cherub Contemplation ; And the mute Silence hist along, 'Less Philomel will...saddest plight, 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... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...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...saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of Night ; While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er the accustom'd oak ; Sweet bird, that, shuun'st... | |
 | England - 1840 - 876 pages
...hears things delightful to her heart. Thus it is when the pensive spirit of the poet implores that— " 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." Does not the lovely light seem... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...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...saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke,. Sweet Bird! that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical,... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - English literature - 1822 - 234 pages
...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 deign a song, In her sweetest, saddest plight, Soothing the rugged brow of night. . . While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er the aocustom'd... | |
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But first, and chiefest, with thee 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 deign a song... 
