| Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 pages
...were I equaled with them in renown, Blind Thamyris, and blind Msonides, And Tyresias, and Phineus, prophets old: Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary...covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year Season:) return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n and morn, Or sight of vernal... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1836 - 380 pages
...them in renown, Blind Thamyris, and blind Mseonides, And Tiresias and Phineus, prophets old ; There feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers...covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal... | |
| John Milton - 1837 - 524 pages
...So were I equal'd with them in renown, Blind Thamyris and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias and Phineus, prophets old : Then feed on thoughts , that voluntary...covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal... | |
| Thomas Miller - 1837 - 466 pages
...has embodied these in "thoughts that breathe and words that burn :" " Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn,...herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me." Perhaps there never was a greater lover of the country than Milton:... | |
| John Milton - 1837 - 426 pages
...So were I equal'd with them in renown, Blind Thamyris and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias and Phineus, prophets old : Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary...darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal pote. Thus with the year Seasons return , but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even... | |
| George Godwin - 1838 - 368 pages
...of the third Book of " Paradise Lost," he thus beautifully alludes to this deprivation. " Not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn,...herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge... | |
| Frederic James Post, of Islington - 1838 - 528 pages
...grace." Book iii. line 40-45. — 5.5. " Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns5 Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight...herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me; from the rheerful ways of men Cut off; and, for the book of knowledge... | |
| Antoine Martin Bureaud-Riofrey - 1838 - 614 pages
...— -" Thus with the year Seasons return : but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of eve or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose,...herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - 1838 - 316 pages
...poetry. Thus with the year, Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of cv'n or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose,...herds, or human face divine , But cloud instead, and ever during dark Surround me So in the beautiful little poem of Cowper, on the receipt of his mother's... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - 1838 - 1380 pages
...: — "Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of eve or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom or summer's rose,...herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge... | |
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