 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pages
...in fate, So were I equall'd with them in renown. Blind Thamyris, and blind Maxmides, And Tiresias, ven sings ; There under ebon shades, and low-brow'd...goddess fair and free, In Heaven yclep'd Euphrosyne, Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 830 pages
...in fate, So were I equalTd with them in renown, Blind Thamyris, and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias, dering go Through dreary wastes, and weep each other's...Where round some mouldering tower pale ivy creeps, Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...in fate, So were I equall'd with them in renown, Blind Thamyris, and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias, and Phineus, prophets old : Then feed on thoughts...hid, Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, Or sight of vernal... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1843 - 592 pages
...were I equall'd with them in renown, Blind Thamyris and blind Maonides , And Tiresias and Phincus , prophets old : Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 92 pages
...in fate, So were I equalled with them in renown, Blind Thamyris, and blind Meeonides, And Tiresias, and Phineus, prophets old; Then feed on thoughts,...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... | |
 | Albert Henry Payne - 1844 - 270 pages
...were I equall'd with them in renown, Blind Thamyris and blind Mteonides,* And Tiresias and Phineas, prophets old : Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary...wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tnnes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...others." So were I equalled with them in renown, Blind Thamyris, and blind Maeonides,1 And Tiresias,2 and Phineus, prophets old : Then feed on thoughts...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... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 842 pages
...Milton, in his Address to Light , compares himself to the Nightingale in these words : — " Then fced on thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers...Sings darkling, and, in shadiest covert hid, Tunes her noeturnal note.'' Moore, however, has tho following stanza on a comparison betwcen love and the Nightingale's... | |
 | 1846 - 730 pages
...circumstances of blank, rayless desolation — poised on his own supreme spirituality — have loftily fed " on thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers,...in shadiest covert hid, Tunes her nocturnal note." All minds must be impressed by the strange excelling appositeness of the " similitude" in this case.... | |
 | John Milton - 1847 - 604 pages
...equall'd with me in fate iki were I equall'd with them in renown, Blind Thamyrk, and blind Maeonides; 35 Harmonious numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling,...the year 40 Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks,... | |
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Those other two equalled with me in fate, So were I equalled with them in renown, Blind Thamyris and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias and Phineus prophets old; Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling,... 
