| William Hone - 1839 - 874 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 frnm the thorny brake, The mellow Bullfinch answers from the grove. Nor are... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...the kind-contending throng Superior heard, run through the sweetest length Of notes; when listening te choose Through The black-bird whistles from the thorny brake ; The mellow bull-finch answers from the grove : Nor... | |
| James Thomson - 1842 - 440 pages
...wood-lark, o'er the kind contending throng Superior heard, run through the sweeetest length Of notes; when list'ning Philomela deigns To let them joy, and purposes,...thought Elate, to make her night excel their day. The hlackhird whistles from the thorny hrake ; The mellow hullfinch answers from the grove : Nor are... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...the kind-contending throng Superior heard, run through the sweetest length Of notes; when listening ds, At first thin wavering ; till at last the flakes The black-bird whistles from the thorny brake ; The mellow bull-finch answers from the grove : Nor... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...the kind-contending throng Superior heard, run through the sweetest length Of notes; when listening t his purpose The black-bird whistles from the thorny brake ; The mellow bull-finch answers from the grove : Nor... | |
| Mary Milner - 1844 - 788 pages
...Wood-lark, o'er the kind-contending throng Superior heard, run through the sweetest length Of notes ; when list'ning Philomela deigns To let them joy, and purposes,...thought Elate, to make her night excel their day." " Nature, enchanting Nature, in whose form And lineaments divine, I trace a hand That errs not, and... | |
| Almanacs, English - 1874 - 654 pages
...the kind contending throng Superior heard, run through the sweetest length Of notes ; while listening Philomela deigns To let them joy, and purposes, in thought Elate, to make her night excel their day. The Blackbird whittles from the thorny brake ; The mellow Bulfinch answers from the grove ; Nor are... | |
| 1847 - 490 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 hrake ; The mellow bullfinch answers from the grove; Nor are... | |
| James Thomson - 1847 - 504 pages
...mellifluous than that of the Superior heard, run through the sweetest length 600 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 mellow bullfinch f answers from the grove ; 605... | |
| James Thomson - 1849 - 772 pages
...kind-eontending throng Superior heard, run through the sweetest length 600 Of notes ; when listening Philomela deigns To let them joy, and purposes, in thought Elate, to make her night exeel their day. The blaek-bird whistles from the thorny brake; The mellow bull-fineh answers from... | |
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