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" To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise... "
Library of the World's Best Literature: A-Z - Page 10057
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Sermons, and other remains; collected and arranged, with an intr. memoir by ...

Robert Lowth (bp. of London.) - 1834 - 524 pages
...quantity of the same word perpetually, as Bishop Hare does ? If after these lines, which you quote, " Then to come in spite of sorrow, And at my window bid good-morrow," Milton in the next page of his poem, had come with sorrow and good-morrow, would not you have thrown...
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The Every-day Book and Table Book: Or, Everlasting Calandar of Popular ...

William Hone - 1835 - 876 pages
...scenes as must rouse every lover of the country from his conch : — 651 054 Lines from Ï Allegro To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing, startle...to come, in spite of sorrow, And at my window bid good morrow, Through the sweet-brier, or the vino, Or the twisted eglantine : Wlnle the cock, with...
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Burford cottage, and its robin-red-breast, by the author of Keepr's travels

Edward Augustus Kendall - 1835 - 482 pages
...which he describes them, and among others, the singing of the lark before the rising of the sun : " To hear the lark begin his flight, And, singing, startle...night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dapple dawn doth rise ; * The wild hyacinths of our English woods and hedge-rows, commonly called blue-bells....
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Burford Cottage, and Its Robin-red-breast

Edward Augustus Kendall - 1835 - 496 pages
...which he describes them, and among others, the singing of the lark before the rising of the sun : " To hear the lark begin his flight, And, singing, startle...night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dapple dawn dqth rise ; * The wild hyacinths of our English woods and hedge-rows, commonly called blue-bells....
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Greek Pastoral Poets: Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus

Theocritus - 1836 - 450 pages
...that erst was mute, Carols to the rising day Many a note, and many a lay." Faithful Shepherdess. " To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle...watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise." L'Allegro. " Don't cut your hand — to split a cumin-seed." — P. 93. The Greeks said of a miser...
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Select Prose Works, Volume 1

John Milton - 1836 - 448 pages
...tower and gardens of Buffon. To his own practice of early rising Milton alludes in L' Allegro : ' ' To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle...watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise," &c. And again in II Penseroso, there is a beautiful description of the dawn, written with the graphic...
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The Greek Pastoral Poets, Theocritus, Bion and Moschus. Done Into English by ...

Theocritus (of Syracuse) - 1836 - 436 pages
...that erst was mute, Carols to the rising day Many a note, and many a lay." Faithful Shepherdess. " To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle...watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise." L'Allegro. " Don't cut your hand — to split a cumin-seed."— P. 93. The Greeks said of a miser that...
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The Book of Gems: Chaucer to Prior

Samuel Carter Hall - 1836 - 390 pages
...give thee honour due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew To live with her, and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free ; To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull night, From his watch-towre in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise ; Then to come in spight of sorrow, And at...
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The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins

1836 - 558 pages
...thec honour due. I Mirth admit me of thy crew, To live with her, and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free ; To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull night From ht* watchtower in the skies Till the dappled dawn doth rise ; Then to come, in spite of sorrow, And...
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The Book of Gems: Chaucer to Prior

Samuel Carter Hall - 1836 - 336 pages
...free ; To hear the lark hegin his flight, And .singing startle the dull night, From his watch-towre in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise ; Then to come in spight of sorrow, And at my window hid good-morrow, Through the sweet-hriar, or the vine, Or the twisted...
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