 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, Smoothing the rugged...  British Zoology - 308. oldalszerző: Thomas Pennant - 1776 - 786 oldalTeljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 596 oldal
...prototype of Hamlet's Ophelia (.fig, 61). '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 th'accustom'd oak. 60 Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy !... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 270 oldal
...Contemplation ; And the mute Silence hist along, 55 'Less Philomel will dt-ign a song, in her sweetest, saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of night| "While Cynthia checks her dragon yoket Gently o'er th' accustom'd oak; & Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical,... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 728 oldal
...compose part of the solemn scenery of his Penseroso, when he describes it. In her saddest sweetest 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 noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy !... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 oldal
...Contemplation ; And the mute Silence hist 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 th' accustom'd oak ; Sweet bird that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy... | |
 | 1840 - 876 oldal
...the pensive spirit of the poet implores that— " 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." Does not the lovely light seem sometimes to rejoice when the blue concave is all... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 oldal
...Contemplation : And the mute Silence hist 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, shuun'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy !... | |
 | Edward Polehampton, John Mason Good - 1818 - 894 oldal
...compose part of the solemn scenery of his Penseroso, when he describes it. Ip her saddest sweetest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of night ; While Cynthia checks her dragon yqke, Gently o'er the accustom'd oak; {fweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 oldal
...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 shun'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy !... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 oldal
...Contemplation ; And the mute Silence hist along, 'Less Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest saddest s the accustom'd oak : Sweet bird, that sliunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy !... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 oldal
...Contemplation ; And the mute Silence hist 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 noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy !... | |
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