 Superior heard, run through the sweetest length Of notes; when listening Philomela deigns To let them joy, and purposes, in thought Elate, to make her night excel their day. The blackbird whistles from the thorny brake; The mellow bullfinch answers from...  Poems - Page 27by James Thomson - 1730Full view - About this book
 | James Thomson - 1757 - 244 pages
...contending throng Superior heard, run thro' the fweeteft length 600 Of notes ; when liflening Philomela deigns . To let them joy, and purpofes, in thought...brake ; The mellow bullfinch anfwers from the grove : 605 Nor are the linnets, o'er the flowering furze Pour'd out profufely, filent. Join'd to thefe Innumerous... | |
 | James Thomson - 1766 - 266 pages
...kind-contending throng Superior heard, run thro' the fweeteft length Of notes; when liftening Philomela deigns To let them joy, and purpofes, in thought Elate, to make her night excel their day. 600 The black-bird whiftles from the thorny brake ; ; The mellow bullfinch anfwers from the grove.:... | |
 | James Thomson - 1774 - 272 pages
...kind-contending throng Superior heard, run through the fweeteft length Of notes; when lift'ning Philomela deigns To let them joy, and purpofes, in thought Elate, to make her night excel their day. 600 The black-bird whittles from the thorny brake ; The mellow bulfinch anfwers from the grove : Nor... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 274 pages
...kind-contending throng Superior heard, run through the fweeteft length Of notes ; when liftening Philomela deigns To let them joy, and purpofes, in thought Elate, to make her night excel their day. 600 The black-bird whiftles from the thorny brake ; The mellow bullfinch anfwers from the grove : Nor... | |
 | Mary Weightman - 1787 - 136 pages
...kind-contending throng " Superior heard, run through the fweeteft length' " Of notes ; when liftening philomela deigns "• To let them joy, and purpofes in thought....her night excel their day. •"• The black-bird whittles from the thorny brake ;, " The mellow bulfinch anfwers from the grove : " Nor are the linnets,... | |
 | John Bell - 1787 - 510 pages
...kind-contending throng Superior heard, run thro' the fweeteft length Of notes ; when liftening Philomela deigns To let them joy, and purpofes, in thought Elate, to make her night excel their day. 600 The blackbird whiftles from the thorny brake ; The mellow bullfinch atafwers from the grove : Now... | |
 | 1788 - 404 pages
...contending throng Superior heard, run thro* the fweeteft length Of notes ; when liftening Philomela deigns To let them joy, and purpofes, in thought Elate,...brake ; The mellow bullfinch anfwers from the grove j Nor are the linnets o'er the flowering furze Pour'd out profufely, filent. Join'd to thefe Innumerous... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 292 pages
...kind-contending throng Superior heard, run through the fweeteft length Of notes ; when liftening Philomela deigns To let them joy, and purpofes, in thought Elate, to make her night excel their day. 603 The black- bird whiftles from the thorny brake; The mellow bullfinch anfwers from the grove : Nor... | |
 | James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - 1793 - 308 pages
...kind-contending throng Superior heard, run thro' the fweeteft length Of notes; when liftening Philomela deigns To let them joy, and purpofes, in thought Elate,...to make her night excel their day. The black-bird, whittles from the thorny brake; The mellow bullfinch anfwers from the grove : Nor are the linnets,... | |
 | 1794 - 954 pages
...kind-contending thronr Superior heard, run through thv fwcctcil length Of notes; when lifieniug Philomela deigns To let them joy, and purpofes, in thought Elate, to make her night excel their day. The blackbird whittles from the thorny brake ; The mellow bullfinch anfwcrs from the grove ; Ner are the linnets,... | |
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