 | Ebenezer Bailey - 1840 - 426 pages
...them in renown, Blind Thamyris and blind Masonides, And Tiresias and Phineus, prophets old, Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers...bird Sings darkling, and, in shadiest covert hid, Tunps her nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 492 pages
...in renown, Blind Thamyris, and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias, and Phineus, prophets old ; Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers...and in shadiest 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,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...Thamyris, and blind Mironidcs, And Tiresioa, and Phincus, prophets old : Then feed on thoughts, lhat ce, with delight receiv'd In brief sententious precepts,...Of fate and chance, and chance in human life. Hig Thus wilh the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn,... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...renown, 35 Blind Thamyris, and blind Mseonides, And Tiresias, and Phineus, prophets old ; Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers...wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid 40 Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...in renown, Blind Thamyris, and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias, and Phineus, prophets old : Then feed eep each other's woe Where round some mouldering tower pale ivy creeps, Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...them in renown. Blind Thamyris, and blind Maxmides, And Tiresias, and Phineus, prophets old: Then feed and low-brow'd rocks, As ragged as thy locks, In dark...come, thou goddess fair and free, In Heaven yclep'd Eu Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn,... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1843 - 592 pages
...in renown, Blind Thamyris and blind Maonides , And Tiresias and Phincus , prophets old : Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers;...in shadiest 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...in renown, Blind Thamyris, and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias, and Phineus, prophets old : Then feed on thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers...in shadiest covert 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,... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1843 - 324 pages
...renown ! Blind Thamyris, and blind Maeonides ; And Tiresias, and Phineas, prophets old : Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in the shadiest cover hid, Tunes her nocturnal note. 8. Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to... | |
 | Harold Bloom - Literary Criticism - 1971 - 516 pages
...on his own sightless eyes, Milton's thoughts turn to the nightingale singing in darkness: Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers;...and in shadiest Covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. How consciously Keats remembered this passage one cannot say, but it contains the whole kernel of the... | |
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Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note... 
