 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...soars on golden wing, Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne, The eherub Contemplation ; And the mute Silenee hist along, 'Less Philomel will deign a song, In her...saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of Night, While Cynthia eheeks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er th' aeeustom'd oak ; Sweet bird that shunn'st the... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Fore-edge painting - 1825 - 346 pages
...Milton's 11 Penseroso : " To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown, that Sylvan IHIT.. Sweet bird, that shun'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy I Thee chauntress oft the woods among I woo to hear thy even-song ; And missing thee, 1 walk unseen... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 310 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 th' accustom'd oak : Sweet bird, that shunn'st the... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 360 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 th' accustom'd oak ; Sweet bird that shunn'st the... | |
 | Thomas Bewick - Birds - 1826 - 446 pages
...and varied song of this unrivalled bird. Milton gives us the following beautiful description : — 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 accustomed oak : Sweet bird that shunn'st the... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...golden wing, Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne, The cherub Contemplation ; And the mute Silence liist along, 'Less Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest saddest plight, Smoothing die rugged brow of Night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er the accustom'd oak : Sweet... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1826 - 208 pages
...; he listens from some lonely hillock to the distant curfew, and loves to hear the song of that ". sweet bird, That shun'st the noise of folly, " Most musical, most melancholy. Farther; — Our trains of suggested thoughts will be modified by those -temporary feelings, which... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 412 pages
...bring Him that yon soars on golden wing, Guiding the fi'ry-wheeled throne, The cherub Contemplation ; And the mute Silence hist along, 'Less Philomel will deign a song, In his sweetest, saddest plight Smoothing the rugged brow of Night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 806 pages
...glowing hot, in that surge, like a horse shoe ; think of that ; husiry hoi. Shalupeare. Mute silence hut along ! 'Less Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest...saddest plight. Smoothing the rugged brow of night. Milton. He Ain for Ai« returned, with forked tongue To forked tongue. Id. He heard On all sides from... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 820 pages
...Bacon's Es*ayt. Such miuick Before was never made But when of old the sons of morning sung. Milton. Sweet bird that shun'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy, Thee chauntress, oft the wood among, I woo to hear thy even song. Id. Now look into the musics-master's gains, Where noble youth... | |
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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... 
