 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...bring, Him that yon soars on «olden wing, Guiding the fiery -wheeled throne, The cherub Contemplation ; And the mute Silence hist along, 'Less Philomel will...song, In her sweetest, saddest plight. Smoothing the nipped brow of Night, While Cyntbia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er th' accustom'd oak; Sweet bird,... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...golden wing, Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne, The cherub Contemplation ; And the mute Silence hiss'd along, '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 accustom'd oak : Sweet bird, that shunn'st the... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 468 pages
...stationed on the eastern verge of Paradise, b. xi. 120, 128. Other examples are obvious. 7*. War/on. 56. 'Less Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest,...saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of night,] Compare Shakespeare, Sonnet li. and see note, PR iv. 246. As Philomel in summer's front doth sing,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...soars on golden wing, Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne, The eherub Contemplation ; And the mute Silenee hist along, 'Less Philomel will deign a song, In her...saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of Night, While Cynthia eheeks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er th' aeeustom'd oak ; Sweet bird that shunn'st the... | |
 | 1826 - 310 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, Gently o'er th' accustom'd oak : Sweet bird, that shunn'st the... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 360 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, Gently o'er th' accustom'd oak ; Sweet bird that shunn'st the... | |
 | Thomas Bewick - 1826 - 446 pages
...and varied song of this unrivalled bird. Milton gives us the following beautiful description : — And the mute silence hist along, 'Less Philomel will...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... | |
 | John Aikin - 1826 - 840 pages
...golden wing, Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne, The cherub Contemplation ; And the mute Silence liist along, 'Less Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest saddest plight, Smoothing die rugged brow of Night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er the accustom'd oak : Sweet... | |
 | William Enfield - 1827 - 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,... | |
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But first, and chiefest, with thee 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... 
