 | 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 unseen On... | |
 | 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 unseen On... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...Smoothing the rugged brow of Night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke -Gently o'er the accustom'd oak : Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most...chantress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song ; And, missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth^shaven green, To behold the wandering... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...the Poet, and of which Milton is mindful in Allegro: — To the Nightingale. Sweet bird, that shun'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy...the Woods among, I woo, to hear thy Evening Song. Petrarch's beautiful sonnet, beginning " Quel Rosignol che si soave piagne," is well known; and Virgil... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...Smoothing the rugged brow of Night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er th' accustom'd oak ; XTRACTS FROM THE SEASONS. MUiWF.ns IN SI-RIM;, The North-east spends hie rage ; h chauntress oft the woods among I woo to hear thy evening-song ; And missing thee, I walk unseen On... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 572 pages
..."Lew Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest, saddest plight. Smoothing the rugged brow of night. Sweet bird that shunn'st 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 On the... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...dragon yoke, Gently o'er th' accustom'd oak; Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Mostmusical, most melancholy ! Thee, chantress. oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear toy evening-song; And missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green. To behold the wand'ring... | |
 | 1826 - 310 pages
...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 noise of folly, Most...Thee, chantress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear tliy even-song ; And, missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, VOL. in. 6* To behold... | |
 | Thomas Bewick - 1826 - 446 pages
...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 ! Thee, chauntress, oft the woods among, I woo to hear thy evening song : Nightingales begin to build about... | |
 | 1826 - 540 pages
...your obedient servant, A CONSTANT READEB. RUSTICUS ON ORNITHOLOGY. (Continued.) THK NIGHTINGALE. " Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy !" • MILTON'S // Pcnitroto. To the Editor of the Sporting Mngan*e. SIR, |L OTWITHSTANDING the very... | |
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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! 
