 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!  Littell's Living Age - 547. oldal1877Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | John Milton - 1782 - 40 oldal
...retired Leisure, That in trim gardens takes his pleasure; 5o 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, 55 'Leß Philomel will daign a song, In her sweetest, saddest plight,... | |
 | John Bell - 1788 - 628 oldal
...retired Leisure, That in trim gardens takes his pleasure ; 50 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, sj In her sweetest, saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of... | |
 | John Milton, Thomas Warton - 1799 - 148 oldal
...retired Leisure, That in trim gardens takes his pleasure; 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, In her sweetest, saddest plight,... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1802 - 152 oldal
...retired Leisure, That in trim gardens takes his pleasure { But first and chiefe&t with the'e bring . Him that yon soars on golden wing, Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne, The cherub Contemplation.'' " And as thou approachest, bring with thee Peace, Quiet, and (spare) lean Fast, who, ( 'meaning Fast,... | |
 | John Wolcot - 1804 - 180 oldal
...retired Leisure, That in trim gardens takes his pleasure ; 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, In her sweetest, saddest plight,... | |
 | E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 oldal
...retired Leisure, That in trim gardens takes his pleasure; But first, and clu'efest, with thee hring Him that yon,' soars on golden wing, Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne. The cheruh Contemplation ; And the mute Silence hist along, 'Less Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest,... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1806 - 500 oldal
...Trinity manuscript, was written in November, 1637, when Milton was not quite twenty-nine years old. Him that yon soars on golden wing, Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne, The cherub Contemplation. MILTON'S LYCIDAS AND SMALLEH POEMS. By contemplation is here meant that stretch of thought by which... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 434 oldal
...retired Leisure, That in trim gardens takes his pleasure ; 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 Silen.ce hist along, Less Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest, saddest plight,... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 512 oldal
...retired Leisure, That in trim gardens takes his pleasure ; But first, and chiefcst, 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 In her sweetest, saddest plight,... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 302 oldal
...retired Leisure, That in trim gardens takes his pleasure : 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, In her sweetest, saddest plight,... | |
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