 | James Thomson, Thomas Park - 1808 - 444 pages
...the kind-contending throng Superior heard, run through the sweetest length Of notes; when listening Philomela deigns To let them joy, and purposes, in thought Elate, to make her night excel their day. The black-bird whistles from the thorny brake; The mellow bullfinch answers from the grove : Nor are... | |
 | William Somervile - 1811 - 312 pages
...o'er the kind contending throng superior heard, run thro' the sweetest length of notes; when listening Philomela deigns to let them joy, and purposes, in thought elate, to make her night excel their day. The black-bird whistles from the thorny brake; the mellow bullfinch answers from the grove: nor are... | |
 | James Thomson - 1813 - 346 pages
...the kind-contending throng Superior heard, run through the sweetest length Of notes ; when listening Philomela deigns To let them joy, and purposes, in thought Elate, to make her night excel their day. 600 The black-bird whistles from the thorny brake ; The mellow bullfinch answers from the grove : Nor... | |
 | Charles Smith - Cork (Ireland : County) - 1815 - 446 pages
...the kind contending throng, Superior heard, run thro' the sweetest length Of notes, when listening Philomela deigns To let them joy, and purposes in...thought , Elate, to make her night excel their day. , The Blackbird whistles from (he thorny brake, < The mellow bullfinch answers from th<- grove, Nor... | |
 | Rodolphus Dickinson - Elocution - 1815 - 214 pages
...the kind contending throng Superior heard, run thro' the sweetest length Of notes ; when listening Philomela deigns To let them joy, and purposes, in thought Elate, to make her night excel their day. The black-bird whistles from the thorny brake ; The mellow bulfinch answers from the grove : Nor are... | |
 | Joseph Taylor - Birds - 1815 - 170 pages
...the kind contending throng Superior heard, run through the sweetest length Of notes ; when listening Philomela deigns To let them joy, and purposes, in thought Elate, to make her night excel their day. The Blackbird whistles from the thorny brake; The mejlow Bullfinch answers from tfye p Nor are the... | |
 | James Thomson - 1816 - 256 pages
...the kind-contending throng Superior heard, run through the sweetest length Of notes ; when liet'ning Philomela deigns To let them joy, and purposes, in thought Elate, to make her night excel their day. The blackbird whistles from the thorny bnike ; The mellow bullfinch answers from the grove : Nor are... | |
 | James Thomson, Dr. Johnson - Laziness - 1818 - 316 pages
...the kind contending throng Superior heard, run through the sweetest length Of notes ; when listening Philomela deigns To let them joy, and purposes, in thought Elate, to make her night excel their day. The black-bird whistles from the thorny brake; The mellow bullfinch answers from the grove : Nor are... | |
 | Thomas Boreman - Animals - 1818 - 420 pages
...murmurings, lulled each other to rest, and then he displays, at full, his melodious faculties. intr Philomela deigns. To let them joy, and purposes in...thought Elate, to make her night excel their day.' It is a great subject of astonishment, that so small a bird should be endowed with such potent lungs... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...tlie kind-contending throng Superior heard, run through tlie sweetest length Of notes ; when listening O 8 (eP+ then- day. The black-bird whistles from the thorny brake ; The mellow bulfinch answers from the grove... | |
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Superior heard, run through the sweetest length Of notes; when listening Philomela deigns To let them joy, and purposes, in thought Elate, to make her night excel their day. 
