 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Gosden - 1822 - 80 pages
...heard alone ; whence the poets have always made the song of the nightingale a nocturnal serenade — Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy 1 The chauntress, oft, the woods among I woo to hear thy even-song. MILTON. and the names of several... | |
 | 1822 - 666 pages
...Milton, in his beautiful poem, II Penseroso, describes it in the following lines of poetic excellence : " Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chantress, oft the woods among I woo, to hear thy eren-song." Again : — " The sweet poet of... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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 musical, most melancholy, Thee, chantress, oft the woods among I woo to hear thy evening song. So great a favourite was the nightingale... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 572 pages
...II Penseroso, as it is rather more particular than the rest. And the mute silence hist along, "Lew Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest, saddest...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 580 pages
...works. We will give an instance out of the Il Penseroso, as it is rather more particular than the rest. And the mute silence hist along, 'Less Philomel will...Smoothing the rugged brow of night. Sweet bird that shimn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! Thee chauntress oft the woods among I... | |
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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 accustomed oak; Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy... 
