 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...fate, So were I equalTd with them in renown, Blind Thamyris, and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias, and ng go Through dreary wastes, and weep each other's...Where round some mouldering tower pale ivy creeps, shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns... | |
 | 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...numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling , and in shadiest covert hid , Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return , but not to me returns... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1843 - 324 pages
...were I equal'd with them in renown ! Blind Thamyris, and blind Maeonides ; And Tiresias, and Phineas, prophets old : Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary...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... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...fate, (So were I equalled with them in renown !) Blind Thamyris and blind Maconides, And Tiresias and Phineus, prophets old : Then feed on thoughts that...numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and, in shadiest covert hid, Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns... | |
 | Harold Bloom - Literary Criticism - 1971 - 516 pages
...reflects on his own sightless eyes, Milton's thoughts turn to the nightingale singing in darkness: Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious...numbers; as the wakeful Bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest Covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. How consciously Keats remembered this passage one cannot... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 304 pages
...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, that...numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns... | |
 | William Kerrigan - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 372 pages
...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, that...numbers; as the wakeful Bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest Covert hid Tunes her nocturnal Note. (21-40) The blindness of three of the poets and prophets... | |
 | Diane Kelsey McColley - Art - 1993 - 336 pages
...and morn "where the Muses haunt /Clear Spring, or shady Grove, or Sunny HUP (3.27-28), Then feed[s] on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful Bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest Covert hid Tunes her nocturnal Note. (3.37-40) Eve sings her nocturn as she and Adam move... | |
 | Eleanor Cook - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 352 pages
...habits, which are philomelic, and their singing habits, which are also philomelic — like Milton's own: Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful Bird Sings darkling. (37-39; my emphasis)^1 It may also be that "They rolled their r's, there, in the land of the citrons"... | |
 | Catherine Maxwell - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 292 pages
...darkness: So were I equalled with them in renown. Blmd Thaniyris, and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias and Phineus prophets old. Then feed on thoughts, that...voluntary move Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Smgs darklmg, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. (3.34-40) The figure of the melancholy... | |
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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,... 
