 | Peter Childs, Roger Fowler - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 280 pages
...stressed vowel sounds (particularly long vowels and diphthongs) for euphonious effect (Paradise Lost, 3): Then feed on thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird. A further kind of variation is the breaking up of excessive regularity in parallelistic patterns, whether... | |
 | Stephen Gill - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 417 pages
...Davie — may create its significance by a momentary ambiguity: Then feed on thoughts, that voluntarie move Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful Bird Sings...and in shadiest Covert hid Tunes her nocturnal Note. (Paradise Lost, III, 37-40) of language comes out for instance in 'Then feed on thoughts, that voluntarie... | |
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Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. 
